Summer SCIENCE - Enhancing High School Science through Polymers

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2008

Department

Polymers and High Performance Materials

Abstract

Science Courses for Integration and Enhancing New Curriculum in Education, a six-week summer program for high school students, veteran high school teachers, university professors, graduate students, and pre-service teachers, stimulates and promotes interest as well as learning in the content area of science through a unique combination of reading exercises and hands-on scientific discovery activities based on natural and synthetic polymers. Students are exposed to the relevancy of polymer science in their own lives through career fairs, research activities, and interaction with the local polymer industry.

Publication Title

Polymer Reviews

Volume

48

Issue

4

First Page

622

Last Page

632

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