Green Chemistry: from Knowledge to Action

Code: QUI14836O

3 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours

Scientific Area: Chemistry

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: E-learning

Sustainable Development Goals

Saúde de qualidade - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Água potável e saneamento - Garantir disponibilidade e manejo sustentável da água e saneamento para todos.

Produção e consumo sustentáveis - Assegurar padrões de produção e de consumo sustentáveis.

Learning Goals

• To acquire the knowledge and skills needed to identify, select and implement methodologies with a growing component in green chemistry (GC) and in line with the objectives of sustainable development
• Recognize and substantiate the importance of chemistry in today's society
• Recognize the importance of Sustainable Development and its interconnection with Chemistry.
• Identify and illustrate the 12 PGC
• Describe and apply the Metrics of GC
• Promote critical thinking regarding to life cycle of products and processes
• Developing an educational resource (e.g. a quiz) that encompasses the syllabus and curriculum goals of the Physical Chemistry or Physics and Chemistry A subjects, the UN 2030 agenda and GC and its framework within the essential learning that contributes to the development of competences included in the Profile of Students Leaving Compulsory Schooling, PAs
• Conduct and promote targeted research into information on the web and make effective use of moodle tools

• Chemistry "Advantages and Disadvantages": Reflection on the importance of chemistry as a science and its impact on society
• Current perspectives on sustainable development: examples
• Chemistry and the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: examples
• History and Evolution of Green Chemistry
• The Twelve Principles of Green Chemistry
• Green Chemistry Metrics
• Green Chemistry Success Stories
• Development of an Educational Resource or similar

Teaching Methods

• This course will take place entirely in an online, e-learning context, based on constructivist methodologies with a strong emphasis on the collaborative construction of knowledge
• Each topic will require reading, watching videos and other open educational resources. There will always be a discussion forum where trainees will develop ideas about the proposed resources.
• Individual and group work of different types will be carried out on each topic.
• This course focuses on asynchronous communication and interaction, although synchronous moments are planned.

Assessment

• Assessment is based on individual activities to be carried out during the course, namely writing a text for the "Química para Todos" blog (15%), writing and presenting a flash talk (15%), writing a post for the Facebook page of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry of the University of Évora (15%) and writing a mini-paper (15%), as well as group activities, namely producing an open educational resource (40%) to be presented at the end of the teaching component.

• The evaluation presupposes attendance at at least 75% of the activities to be carried out.

• The final evaluation will use a quantitative scale of 0-20 points.