Megan Ferguson describes how educators can transform the highly standardized, typical college General Chemistry course into a forum for learning about and forwarding climate change solutions. Incorporating sustainability topics into such a content-heavy course cannot be accomplished by devoting a unit, nor should it, as chemistry concepts introduced throughout the course have applications in various facets of sustainability. Instead, Ferguson’s model course focuses on exposing students to many aspects of UN SDG Goal #13 (Climate Action) by using Paul Hawken’s Drawdown. Climate change solutions and the website www.drawdown.org are introduced on day one as a comprehensive source for currently existing climate solutions. Instructors can spend 5–10 minutes each week purposefully integrating climate action solutions that relate to concepts throughout the course curriculum, thus increasing student engagement with real world examples and making chemistry concepts relevant to solving current societal problems. This approach can also be used in other introductory STEM courses like biology, physics, and engineering. Ferguson aligns Drawdown solutions with concepts taught in these courses as well as chemistry.

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Weaving Climate Action Solutions Throughout General Chemistry and Other Core STEM Curricula

  • Megan A. Ferguson

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Megan Ferguson describes how educators can transform the highly standardized, typical college General Chemistry course into a forum for learning about and forwarding climate change solutions. Incorporating sustainability topics into such a content-heavy course cannot be accomplished by devoting a unit, nor should it, as chemistry concepts introduced throughout the course have applications in various facets of sustainability. Instead, Ferguson’s model course focuses on exposing students to many aspects of UN SDG Goal #13 (Climate Action) by using Paul Hawken’s Drawdown. Climate change solutions and the website www.drawdown.org are introduced on day one as a comprehensive source for currently existing climate solutions. Instructors can spend 5–10 minutes each week purposefully integrating climate action solutions that relate to concepts throughout the course curriculum, thus increasing student engagement with real world examples and making chemistry concepts relevant to solving current societal problems. This approach can also be used in other introductory STEM courses like biology, physics, and engineering. Ferguson aligns Drawdown solutions with concepts taught in these courses as well as chemistry.