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Understanding Chemistry in Our World

  • Author(s): Coast Learning Systems/Coastline Community College
  • ISBN: 978-1-59846-596-9
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Course Access Code ISBN: 978-1-59846-596-9 $15.00
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Understanding Chemistry in Our World is an introductory chemistry course of 14 lessons designed for adult students who are non-science majors. The centerpiece for each lesson is a video from the award-winning video series, Understanding Chemistry in Our World.  Each video explores a topic using a relevant case study to build understanding for the chemical foundations of everything students see and experience around us.
 
Each  lesson includes a number of interactive games and practice activities that engage students and reinforce learning and the lesson ends with a quiz. Students explore individual topics through visits to various locations including:

  • Lawrence Livermore Laboratories to see how covalent bonding is used to create designer molecules that treat disease.
  • Hinckley, California to see discover how an ion, hexavalent chromium, contaminated groundwater supplies (and made Erin Brockovich famous).
  • Yellowstone National Park to examine various types of chemical reactions.
  • A sewage treatment plant to explore the difference between mixtures and solutions and their behaviors as wastewater is transformed into pure water.
  • A doctor’s office to discover the role that acid/base chemistry plays in the development and treatment of gastrointestinal reflux disorder.

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