Series I. The CHEM Study Project, 1960-1977, undated

This series contains The CHEM Study Project files of the Joseph S. Schmuckler Papers. Begun as America’s answer to the challenge that the Soviet Sputnik project posed to the United States’ scientific preeminence, the Chemical Education Material Study (CHEMS) Project was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. As the project’s sub-title suggests, the program leaned heavily toward actual experimentation and lab work as opposed to rote memorization of descriptions and formulae. Joseph S. Schmuckler, then a high school chemistry teacher, was among the first educators exposed to the new program and his papers include a wealth of material relating the formation of the Ur-CHEMS Program.

Arranged in its original order, this series consists of forty files in Boxes 1-4. The contents of The CHEM Study Project files are arranged into the following three sub-series: