The first Green Chemistry ACS Student Chapter has been founded in Brazil at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) so as to support outreach activities in Green Chemistry education such as experiments and didactic initiatives to secondary and undergraduate levels associated with sustainable agriculture and socio-environmental technologies. However, there is a lack of suitable approaches to create a community of Green Chemistry education applied to daily life. In order to simplify this problem, the Chapter has been developing four projects concerning school, university, and industry: 1) National Science and Technology Week, a event focused on secondary-level Science teaching where graduate and undergraduate students lead context-based Green Chemistry experiments; 2) Brazilian School of Green Chemistry Meeting, an event that promotes the exchange of information between industry and researchers interested in Green Chemistry fields; 3) organization of workshops for school teachers, professors, graduate and undergraduate students, and professionals from different areas of industry to share experiences in Green Chemistry fields; and 4) interactive activities during academic weeks. Among Chapter activities are: 1) the ecological trial, an educational question-based game about sustainable development created by graduate students for secondary and high school ones; 2) the identification of everyday plastics for recycling; 3) the ecological footprint calculator, a tool that allows the participants to determine how many Earths it would take to support their lifestyle; and 4) the life cycle assessment of paper and plastic bags, an interactive activity in which participants identify the bag type and the impact on the environment.

Green chemistry education activities to secondary, undergraduate and post-graduate students: ACS UFRJ student chapter group view

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