TEACHING METHODOLOGY OF GREEN CHEMISTRY

Abstract

This article explores integration of green chemistry teaching, with other subjects, promotes development cognitive processes in an education direction. Integrating green chemistry into classroom lab experiments and lessons not only creates safer, more engaging lessons, it also prepares students for the workforce and allows them to think creatively through practical problems. Chemicals are an essential part of science curriculum, but can be dangerous to students, staff, and the environment. Green chemistry is an active approach to pollution prevention and it targets pollution at the design stage, before it even begins. Environmental Science identifies sources, elucidates mechanisms and quantifies problems in the earth’s environment. Green Chemistry seeks to solve these problems by creating alternative, safe technologies. Green Chemistry is not Environmental Chemistry. Green Chemistry targets pollution prevention at the source, during the design stage of a chemical product or process, and thus prevents pollution before it begins.