If it is tested on the field, with really good data collection, it could be
potentially added as the requirement to get the chem license, at least in MA.
It will be good to get volunteer chemistry high school teams to try it out
first.
If it is adopted It will encourage college programs to provide such a
class/training for their future graduates in chemistry teaching. Good selling
point if they do it ahead of it!
I think the ACS HS safety booklet can be streamlined to adapt it to more
realistic HS lab settings, it could be a good start point for the course. I am
thinking it could even include a lesson on GHS, something about chemical
purchasing habits, student training, etc.
The Hines Family
Bedford, MA
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Tanner, Ruth <Ruth_Tanner@xxxxxxx>
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Is it possible to make this kind of course a requirement for license
certification?
Ruth Tanner
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On May 16, 2018, at 6:24 PM, Esther Hines
<des_hines@xxxxxxx<mailto:des_hines@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
Lets design a lab safety course specifically for HS Chemistry educators. High
school resources are very different from the ones available at the college
level.
The Hines Family
Bedford, MA
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Yes, George,
But some teachers don't know of the existence of these resources.
And they may not have the time nor inclination to work on this stuff before
using it in class.
Cary
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There is a substantial literature available for teachers. For example,
University of Wisconsin Professor Bassam Z. Shakhashiri (born 1939) has given
more than a thousand chemical demonstrations to students and their teachers
(including eight Christmas lectures, in the spirit of Michael Faraday, on
Wisconsin Public Television). Shakhashiri throughout his career has been an
advocate for safe and pedagogically effective classroom chemistry
demonstrations, and has published several handbooks of chemical demonstrations
for teachers: Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, Chemical Demonstrations: A Handbook for
Teachers of Chemistry (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press; vol. 1, 1983;
vol. 2, 1985; vol. 3, 1989; vol. 4, 1992; vol. 5, 2011).
