Colleen Kelley - Kids' Chemical Solutions

Colleen Kelley, Ph.D. is the Creator and Founder of Kids’ Chemical Solutions

(www.kidschemicalsolutions.com) which is a comic-book based curriculum for students of all

ages. Dr. Kelley has demonstrated the ability to teach 4^th grade students college level chemistry using storytelling through her comic books.

Colleen’s achievements are so impressive and innovative that a documentary done about her work received an Emmy. I’ve linked the video below. Please watch it. It is incredibly inspiring.

There is a significant challenge with many aspiring medical school students not being able to continue to medical school because they can’t pass the required undergraduate chemistry course. In this podcast episode, Colleen describes her efforts to address this issue and how she has developed her characters and stories over about 25 years of teaching chemistry at the University of Arizona.

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Links:

Colleen Kelley Ph.D.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/colleen-kelley-ph-d-049aa91ab/

 

Kid’s Chemical Solutions

https://kidschemicalsolutions.com/

 

Emmy winning documentary about Kid’s Chemical Solutions comic books:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDmkJzcm4Pc&ab_channel=AZPM

 

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