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Increasing Interest and Motivation through Practical ~pplicationsof Chemistry J a c k Foote Port Angeles High School, Port Angeles, WA 98362 When I started teaching chemistry, the very traditional approach was used. Time was devoted to making glass wash bottles and sulfuric acid by two industrial processes, and to covering such material as the laboratory preparation of oxygen, the halogens, and other similar preparations. The CHEM Studv Program streamlined chemistrv and emuhasized the pr