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Industrial Experience & the Science Classroom
Question: Does industrial experience help a teacher to explain science concepts in the classroom?
My findings after spending 15 years in chemical engineering and 30 years teaching chemistry and physics at the high school level is a resounding YES.
The link below leads to a story about one of my first jobs as a chemical engineer working for Bethlehem Steel in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. My students always found this real life story about climbing smoke stacks to do air pollution testing both amusing and interesting. It helped them to understand how what they were learning was used in the real world and gave them a taste of what a real world job required.
The Smoke Stack – Not All It’s Stacked Up To Be
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