For the past ten years there has been a pedagogical collaboration between the chemistry department at Penn State Behrend and Collegiate Academy, an urban college preparatory school in Erie, PA. For the first nine years, the goal of this collaboration was to have students work with a faculty member on developing new laboratory experiments for the first year general chemistry laboratory curriculum sequence at Penn State Behrend. The collaboration has now changed in the opposite direction. Students at Collegiate Academy want to develop new laboratory experiments to be implemented in the laboratory component of their AP chemistry course. This talk will demonstrate how a college fostering collaboration with high school students can be rewarding and beneficial for both communities. By knowing the benefits of collaboration, both high school and college instructors may be more open to finding ways to work together.

Benefits of collaboration between colleges and high schools

2019 Spring National Meeting

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