Laboratory chemistry for elementary school teachers

Abstract

We have developed a course in chemistry for kindergarten through sixth-grade teachers to help promote the teaching of chemistry as an experimental science at the elementary school level. The course is taught during the summer, and the participants receive graduate credit, in education.The teachers carried out a large number of short, safe, simple, and inexpensive chemistry experiments. We hoped they might draw from this collection and use some of the experiments in their own classes. The general topics explored

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