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Teaching Chemistry Lab Safety through Comics
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As a means for raising students' interest in aspects pertaining to chemistry lab safety, this article presents a novel approach to teaching this important subject. Comic book lab scenes that involve fictional characters familiar to many students are presented and discussed as to the safety concerns represented in those images. These are discussed in a safety prelab session. For the sake of comparison, students are then shown images taken from current chemistry journals of safety-conscious contemporary chemists at work in their labs. Finally the need to adhere to copyright regulations for the use of the images is discussed so as to increase students' awareness of academic honesty and copyright issues.
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First-Year Undergraduate / GeneralKeywords (Domain):
Laboratory InstructionKeywords (Feature):
Safety TipsKeywords (Pedagogy):
Humor / Puzzles / GamesKeywords (Subject):
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- Received: August 03, 2009
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