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Integrating green chemistry and sustainable science principles into the classroom creates a safer more engaging learning environment for students and teachers alike. Interested in bringing green chemistry principles into your K-12 classroom? Find the latest curricula, professional development, events and more on this page.
Green Chemistry in the K-12 Classroom
In the K-12 classroom, green chemistry can have numerous benefits for student engagement, increasing student learning in STEM subjects, and inspiring the next generation of scientists and citizens to design and chose greener alternative products. Our K-12 curriculum and teacher training programs have the following goals:
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MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER COURSE: Sustainable Science: Contextualizing Chemistry Through Safer Hand-On Labs
June 8, 2026 - June 29, 2026If you’re a science teacher looking to create a safer, more engaging learning environment for your...
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HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER COURSE: Introducing Green Chemistry in the High School Classroom
June 8, 2026 - August 3, 2026If you’re looking to integrate green chemistry principles and practices into your teaching through...
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Advanced Green Chemistry: Connections to Our World
June 8, 2026 - August 3, 2026If you’re looking to expand your students’ horizons and support their project-based learning and...
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Beyond Benign’s summer professional development courses help teachers reinvigorate their lessons to better engage students and prepare them for future careers. Through the courses, middle school and high school teachers […]
“K-12 education is where the spark happens,” says Michelle Ernst Modera, Beyond Benign’s K-12 Community Engagement Manager. “If we want to build a strong pipeline of scientists, engineers, and citizens […]
Two outstanding Minnesota chemistry teachers are proving that sustainability belongs in every classroom. Cassandra (Cassie) Knutson Lydon, who has taught general and AP chemistry at White Bear Lake High School […]
