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Artificial photosynthesis is a promising approach to generate commodity chemicals using abundant chemical feedstocks and renewable energy sources. Despite its importance, affordable and effective hands-on classroom activities that demonstrate artificial photosynthesis and teach key concepts, especially for primary school students, are lacking. Educating young students on this topic is a critical step in the development of the next-generation energy workforce, especially one that is diverse in race and gender. We hypothesize that an effective approach to educate a broad range of young students on the topic of artificial photosynthesis is through the use of an active learning-based lesson plan that employs cheap and accessible materials. This hypothesis is confirmed by evaluating the understanding of fifth grade students with a survey before and after a lesson plan on artificial photosynthesis that uses active-learning techniques and uses safe and highly accessible materials (baking soda, tap water, plastic jars, Ni coil, alligator clips, and a solar cell) to perform solarpowered water splitting. The lesson plan and survey questions are designed to align with the educational outcomes

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Author

Brooke Soobrian; Alex J. King; Justin C. Bui; Adam Z. Weber; Alexis T. Bell; Frances A. Houle

Publisher

American Chemical Society (ACS)

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Chemistry (Physical Sciences)