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Teaching Chemistry in Context: Environmental Lead Exposure: Quantification and Interpretation

Year: 2023
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Two broad themes emerge from much of the literature on chemistry education over the last few decades. One: Students should be actively engaged. Two: Students learn more when they care about the topic. This article summarizes our efforts to use the environmental health effects of lead to engage students in authentic chemistry learning. We summarize and cite several related projects with similar goals to provide a resource for chemistry instructors interested in using the broad topic of human-lead interactions. Our work is relevant to environmental justice issues, and we suggest ways to introduce these topics into the chemistry classroom successfully.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-13536-1_13
Authors: Rachel Narehood Austin, Ann McDermott, Katrina Korfmacher, Laura Arbelaez, Jamie Bousleiman, Arminda Downey-Mavromatis, Rahma Elsiesy, Sohee Ki, Meena Rao, Shoshana Williams
Institutions: Barnard College, Columbia University, University of Rochester Medicine, University of Rochester, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, California Institute of Technology, University of Southern California, Stanford University
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4381434661
FWCI: 1.828
Cites: 17
Cited by: 1
Related to: 10