Chemistry for the Informed Citizen

化学（12）。这种合作是提高本科非科学专业的科学素养，通过培养对科学和科学探究的本质的理解。这是通过创建，测试和实施基于探究的课程，化学为知情公民（CIC），在不同的学术环境和不同的学生群体。该课程针对对科学知识和探究性质的常见误解，并通过阅读和反思提示补充学生的经验，帮助他们将科学性质的想法与构建化学概念知识的过程联系起来。该项目还包括教师和教学助理实施CIC课程的专业发展计划，以及教育研究和评估组成部分。该项目由一个由科学家和科学教育专家组成的跨学科小组在一所四年制大学和两所社区学院开展。这个项目的更广泛的影响是提高学生在各种职业中的科学素养，包括未来的小学教师，他们将更好地准备培养学生的科学素养。这些学生在年龄、收入水平和种族方面也有很大的差异。

Chemistry (12). This collaboration is increasing the scientific literacy of undergraduate non-science majors by fostering an understanding of the nature of science and scientific inquiry. This is being accomplished by creating, testing, and implementing an inquiry-based curriculum, Chemistry for the Informed Citizen (CIC), in diverse academic settings and with diverse student populations. The curriculum is targeting common misunderstandings about the nature of scientific knowledge and inquiry as well as supplementing students' experiences with readings and reflection prompts to help them connect ideas about the nature of science with the process undertaken to construct their knowledge of chemistry concepts. The project also includes a professional development plan for faculty and Teaching Assistants implementing the CIC curriculum as well as an educational research and evaluation component. The project is being carried out by an interdisciplinary team of scientists and science education experts at a four-year university and two community colleges. The broader impact of this project is an increased scientific literacy for students in a wide range of careers, including future elementary teachers who will be better prepared to foster scientific literacy in their students. These students also represent a broad diversity of age, income level and ethnicity.