CHEM 175 - Teaching Inquiry Science in Local Schools

Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2013 and alternate years

Prerequisite: CHEM 100, 106, or 111. This service-learning course teaches the development of hands on laboratory activities to fulfill physical science goals required by the science standards of learning (SOL) for Virginia’s public schools. Students create instructional science experiments for chosen age levels to explore and implement activities with school children in Lexington City and Rockbridge County school classrooms. Students visit at least two different classrooms. Primarily a laboratory course. LaRiviere.