Quantitative reasoning is a key intellectual skill, applicable across disciplines and best taught in the context of authentic, relevant problems. Here, I describe and assess a laboratory exercise that has students calculate their "carbon footprint" and evaluate the impacts of various behavior choices on that footprint. Students gather…

Describes a semistructured approach to the laboratory situation in organic chemistry. (Author/PEB)

Presents the problems and objectives of a course for the non-science major. Includes an outline of the course with the methods used to make the material meaningful. Examples are used to show how controversy, current events, readings, and general discussions can be used effectively. (DS)

This second volume of UNESCO's series on New Trends in Chemistry Teaching presents papers originally published during 1966 and 1967 in leading chemistry-teaching periodicals of the world. The papers have been grouped in sections - structure, energetics and kinetics, acids and bases, organic chemistry, electrochemistry, chemistry and industry,…