Sustainabilty in K-12 Active Chemistry Curriculum
L.S. Fan, Ohio State University, 140w 19th ave, Columbus, OH 43210, Peggy Sheets, Upper Arlington High School, Arlington, OH, Himanshu Gupta, The Ohio State University, 140 West 19th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, John M. Parson, Department of Chemistry, Ohio State University, 100 W. 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210 and Darlene Schuster, AIChE, 3 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016

As part of the development of the NSF Active Chemistry innovative K-12 curriculum project, 3 challenges were developed on sustainability. This paper will present an overview of how Active Chemistry teaches chemistry concepts from an open ended problem solving context and will review the sustainability chapters which address issues of water purification, sustainable materials and fuel cells for transportation.

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