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Learning chemistry close to home with distance learning |
| When you think about it, doing chemistry on campus should be called distance learning. Students must travel to the campus to attend lectures and do labs. Doing chemistry at home puts both lab and lecture close at hand. This has many advantages. First is convenience. For many that's the difference between going to school or not. The other is relevance. Testing their home's water, air, and soil has much more meaning than any ?unknown? tested in a traditional lab.
The hands-on nature of chemistry allows students the chance to involve their kids. With safe chemicals and labware, this creates a great opportunity for the family to learn together. Using digital cameras to document the lab, the instructor and students have records of the learning. In the same way computer literacy soared when computers got into homes, science literacy can soar if we get a science like chemistry into homes. |
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