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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2000  > October  >
In the Classroom
"The Chemicals Project": Connecting General Chemistry to Students' Lives
Roland Stout
Department of Chemistry and Physics, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, NC 28372
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October 2000
Vol. 77 No. 10
p. 1301
Abstract
"The Chemicals Project" described here strives to bring freshman chemistry alive for students by emphasizing its connection to the real world and to their own lives and experiences. Its major assignments deal with chemical phobias, recognizing the chemicals found in everyday life and chemical hazards (using Material Data Safety Sheets). The project is described in a cooperative learning format, employs portfolio grading, and includes a significant writing component. Ways of linking this project with the course lecture and student evaluations of the project are described. The bottom line: pre- and post-testing shows that it works. The Chemicals Project brings chemistry alive for students.
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The supplemental material has three parts.
Appendix 1: A detailed listing of assignments and information about portfolio grading and cooperative learning used by the instructor.
Appendix 2: General references used in the Chemicals Project.
Appendix 3: A survey of attitudes and phobias about science and technology.
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 Stout, Roland P. J. Chem. Educ. 2000 77 1301.
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 Collaborative / Cooperative Learning; General Chemistry; Introductory / High School Chemistry; Public Understanding; Safety / Hazardous Materials; Writing in Chemistry
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