Overview
This course will introduce educators to Green Chemistry and develop the skills and knowledge to integrate sustainability through chemistry in their classrooms. Laboratory activities being used in K-12 classrooms that pose risks to both human health and the environment will be analyzed, and green chemistry replacement labs and hazard awareness techniques that are safer and more cost effective will be featured. Participants will evaluate laboratories based on green chemistry principles such as safer solvents, real-time analysis and pollution prevention. They will identify lab activities that are of concern to the health and safety of the environment and humans and recognize safer alternatives.