This four week High School Chemistry unit is designed to teach first semester Chemistry fundamentals in an innovative
way that will catalyze students to become impassioned scientists or scientific-related participants in the Green
Chemistry revolution. Green Chemistry is about inventing, designing, and creating products and systems that will be
sustainable into the future; after all, why fix problems later that we can engineer solutions for today? To help
students visualize possibilities, the four lesson unit will scaffold students' knowledge and culminate with an
interactive investigative science game in which the students are the participants in helping convict drug kingpin Ibu
Profen Brufen (a.k.a. 'The Headache') using quantitative and qualitative evidence. Concepts reviewed and introduced
include, Reactants, Products, Reactions, Reaction Types, Gram Formula Mass, Stoichiometric Dimensional Analysis, Atom
Economy, and E-Factor; these concepts are 'hidden' in a case study of Ibuprofen, which is just one example of how
innovative Green Chemistry processes are changing the world. Through these innovative lessons, I hope to reactivate
the curiosity and passion for science and learning that has been so often lost amongst the urban youth we serve; from
these reactivated curiosities, I hope to create active future participants that will Change the World.
(Developed for Chemistry and Biochemistry, grades 10-12, and AP Chemistry, grades 11-12; recommended for Chemistry
and Biochemistry, grades 10-12, and AP Chemistry, grades 11-12)
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