Incorporating Polymeric Materials Topics in the Undergraduate Chemistry Core Curriculum: A Renewal and Extension

该项目继续努力，包括在本科化学核心课程的聚合物材料的主题。将准备教学包和实验室实验，供在聚合物领域几乎没有经验的学院和大学教师使用。该项目利用并扩展了在相关的早期赠款中开发的组织和基础设施。在早期赠款中建立的三个区域站点（Rennselear Polytechnic Institute，南密西西比大学和威斯康星大学史蒂文斯角分校）将再次接待NSF- POLYED学者，他们在这些站点的夏季居住期间开发聚合物课程材料。此外，还将在威斯康星大学史蒂文斯角制作教学录像带。将在三个区域地点举办区域讲习班，开始传播所编制的教材。这项工作也将超越普通化学，包括有机序列的聚合物课程材料的准备。这些材料将经过实地测试，然后通过拟议的讲习班、出版物和POLYED国家聚合物教育信息中心广泛传播。

The project continues efforts to include polymeric materials topics in the undergraduate chemistry core curriculum. Instructional packets and laboratory experiments will be prepared for use by college and university faculty who have little or no prior experience in the polymer area. The project utilizes and extends the organization and infrastructure developed in a related earlier grant. The three regional sites established in the earlier grant (Rennselear Polytechnic Institute, the University of Southern Mississippi, and the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point) again will host the NSF- POLYED Scholars who are developing polymer curricular materials during summer residencies at these sites. In addition, instructional videotapes will be prepared at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Regional workshops will be offered at the three regional sites to begin dissemination of the curricular materials developed. The effort also will move beyond general chemistry to include the preparation of polymer curricular materials for the organic sequence. The materials will be field tested and then disseminated widely through the proposed workshops, through publications, and from the POLYED National Information Center for Polymer Education.