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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2007  > February  >
In the Classroom
Green Chemistry
Toward the Greening of Our Minds: A New Special Topics Course
Anne E. Marteel-Parrish
Department of Chemistry, Washington College, Chestertown, MD 21620
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February 2007
Vol. 84 No. 2
p. 245
Abstract
Nowadays environmentally friendly scientists are conscious about the need to make chemistry "greener". The success of green chemistry depends on the training of the students of today. Facing the need to open students' minds on the greener side of chemistry, a new special-topics course has been developed that covers both the theoretical and practical aspects of green chemistry. The main goal of this course is to motivate the students to use their critical-thinking and problem-solving ability in learning about green chemistry. The originality of this course arises from the unique combination of using diverse pedagogical tools to teach a new chemistry topic as well as the active-learning approach engaging the students in the course material. The course goals, instructional materials, format of the course, grading, evaluation, conclusions of the course are detailed in this article and corresponding Supplemental Material. This outline is designed to provide a model to instructors wishing to integrate a green chemistry course in their curriculum.
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A list of topics covered in the mini-proposal, student handouts for the writing and presenting assignments, and evaluation forms are available.
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Marteel-Parrish, Anne E. J. Chem. Educ. 2007 84 245.
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Keywords
Collaborative / Cooperative Learning; Curriculum; Green Chemistry; Problem Solving / Decision Making; Upper-Division Undergraduate
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