GREEN CHEMISTRY AND SUSTAINABLE SCIENCE: A Green Approach to Sustainable STEM in K-12 - Chapter 3: Structure of Atoms and Molecules
Contributors
Summary
Typical chemistry instruction engages students with a variety of chemicals to understand the structure of atoms and molecules. Our goal in this chapter is to provide three example lessons that illustrate how to engage students with concepts of structure through design, modeling, and phenomena that use less toxic chemicals and limit student and teacher exposure. Several of these lessons are good examples of “replacement labs” where traditional chemicals and processes are replaced with greener alternatives, emphasizing increased safety for students and teachers.
Chapter 3 Contains:
1. Introduction
2. Desalination Design Challenge: Lesson 5: Salty Solutions (Elementary School; Veronica)
3. The Particle Nature of Matter (Middle School; Annette)
4. Flame Tests (High School; Stefanie)
Chapter 3 Contains:
1. Introduction
2. Desalination Design Challenge: Lesson 5: Salty Solutions (Elementary School; Veronica)
3. The Particle Nature of Matter (Middle School; Annette)
4. Flame Tests (High School; Stefanie)
Safety Precautions, Hazards, and Risk Assessment
See individual activities
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.59877/AMVW5104
Related Learning Objects
File (PDF, PPT, image, etc)
File (PDF, PPT, image, etc)
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.