Environmental chemistry curriculum

The separate parts in the school chemistry textbooks are accompanied by student-exercises that mainly aim to train the students ability to reproduce the chemical knowledge presented. It takes quite a large number of chemistry lessons before a student will come to a point where the new chemical knowledge may be related to society and the everyday world. Only some students start to ask about nitrates and environmental problems while climbing the ladder. Mary never make such a coimection. According to the common ciuriculum philosophy that students first need to climb the ladder , it takes a long climb for students to see the relevance to societal themes in fact it is impossible within the (time) limits of the school chemistry curriculum. 

For those more inclined to use environmental topics to enrich thermodynamics and kinetics parts of the physical chemistry curriculum, Modeling Stratospheric Ozone Chemistry and the Contrail projects are two examples. 

High school students should have a greater understanding of global environmental issues. This can be accomplished by using environmentally-relevant examples to teach high school chemistry. Appropriate demonstrations and laboratory experiments that illustrate these topics are suggested. To incorporate additional environmental chemistry in die secondary curriculum, help from environmental scientists will be needed. 

At UCI, she teaches graduate-level courses in atmospheric chemistry on a regular basis. In addition, she teaches such classes as undergraduate instrumental analysis, in which she is developing a new laboratory curriculum centered around the analysis of complex environmental mixtures. This work has been supported by the Dreyfus Foundation and UCI. 

Institutional projects include environmental accounting, curriculum development, green chemistry, and insurance projects. 

In the mid-1990s, Carnegie Mellon University s Environmental Institute began to implement the Environment across the Curriculum initiative (75). The goal was to develop modules that contained environmental themes that could be used in courses in every college in the university... One of the modules, which focused on green chemistry and was specifically designed for the first year chemistry student, will be discussed. 

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