Sustainability is a major challenge to today’s world. One of chemistry’s responses to react to the demand for more sustainability in chemistry research and its related industries is laid down in the concept of green chemistry. Green chemistry started to change the way chemistry is and should be conceptualized in the 21<sup>st</sup> century. It should change towards environmentally benign products, more energy efficiency, production of less and less hazardous waste, and safety. It is suggested that green chemistry implies that also change needs to come how chemistry is taught. It seems so far, however, that the introduction of green chemistry into teaching is mostly restricted to selected cases at the higher educational level. In the means of chemistry education for all, this chapter discusses an initiative to thoroughly integrate green and sustainable chemistry thinking into education starting from the high school level. It presents a cyclical curriculum development project based in action research to change the chemistry curriculum in German senior high school education. Basics of the project, the current curriculum design, and first experiences are reported.

Incorporating the senior high school curriculum with green chemistry: Ongoing action research project

Macromolecular Chemistry: The Second Century

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