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Extractions: January February March April ... December (For information on the times and locations of any of these events, please refer to Argonne's Weekly Calendar or the current issue of the Argonne News or call the Office of Public Affairs at 708/252-1790.) 5 Chemistry Division 50th Anniversary Seminar: "Chemical Separations Science" by Dr. E. Philip Horwitz, Argonne Chemistry Division. 6 Director's Special Colloquium: "Cosmic Rays: The Highest-Energy Particles in the Universe" by Dr. James Watson Cronin , Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago. Arts at Argonne Concert: Julius Berger, cello (first U.S. appearance); Mykola Suk , piano. 10 Florida Pioneers Anniversary Luncheon. 28 "Atoms for Peace": PBS broadcast of "The New Explorers" television program with Bill Kurtis on the history of nuclear energy, featuring Argonne's role.
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Extractions: Science Enrichment for Learners with Physical Handicaps The SAVI/SELPH program was originally developed to meet the science learning needs of students with disabilities, but has more recently found significant application in regular upper-elementary classrooms. In addition to print and video materials available for purchase online from LHS, kits of student materials can be purchased directly from the Center for Multisensory Learning . For more information send e-mail or call 510-642-8941. C O M M U N I C A T I O N buy online This module contains four activities dealing with the physics of sound. The specific goals include: sharpening students' sound discrimination skills, helping youngsters become familiar with sound sources, sound receivers, and sound amplification, introducing the concept of pitch and bringing youngsters to an understanding of the relationship between vibration and sound. A companion
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Extractions: Home Programs Exhibit Information Exhibits and Sponsors ... Message Board Saturday will be ChemEd Day, a special program for teachers, students, and scientists interesting in working with their local schools. Special events planned for ChemEd Day include: a performance by Lee Marek, Chemical Demonstrator Extraordinaire and member of the nationally renowned Weird Science the fabulous Re-discovery of the Elements, by Jim Marshall from the University of North Texas; and the witty The Dead Chemists Society presentation by Bill Deese chemist (and master juggler!) from Louisiana Tech. A special ACS Presidential Symposium for high school students on careers in chemical technology and a Saturday luncheon presentation by ACS President-elect Bill Carroll are also planned. In addition to these star-studded presentations, there will be technical sessions on research in chemistry education, workshops for secondary and elementary teachers organized by the Journal of Chemical Education , and many other fun-filled activities. Featured workshops and presentations include: Weird science: a phenomenological approach to teaching Lee R. Marek
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Extractions: Downloads ... Professional Development Enter your email address for FREE weekly teaching tips! Home Teacher Resources Lesson Plans Science ... Chemical Changes - By doing the following demonstrations, students will gain an understanding of how chemical reactions produce new substances. Chemistry I Index - Chemistry I resources, mainly demonstrations and labs. Includes some teaching tips, exercises and handouts. Chemistry II Index - Chemistry II resources, mostly labs. Chemistry Lesson Plans - A teachers daily lessons. Chemistry Magic - To enhance student interest in topics to be covered during the course. Demonstrations can be taylored to specific topics to enhance student interest. Chemistry Worksheets - From the Catalyst online. Crystals - The purpose of this lesson is to introduce the student to the effects of the mixture of different components and also the effect of one chemical on another. Determining Acids and Bases - To introduce acidity/alkalinity of substances using an indicator to determine their differences and safety precautions in handling of each.
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Extractions: Kitchen Chemistry: Fun Food Activities and Experiments By Christina Blassingame-Cleveland Chemistry is the study of the way materials are put together and how they act under various conditions. There are many chemistry concepts that explain daily events we observe in life. Chemistry uses all of one's senses-what one sees, tastes, touches, smells, hears, and feels. Many or most of the experiments in this unit can be performed in a classroom setting using items found in an ordinary household kitchen. I hope this unit encourages a child's natural curiosity and introduces them to the fun of chemistry. Young children are genuinely inquisitive; these experiments and activities are designed to interest and excite them. This unit is divided into three sections. The first one is experiments with water. The second one is experiments with food. The third one is experiments using acids and bases. The last section lists various cooking activities using foods. Enjoy! RATIONALE "Curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought him back." Though this saying contains no truth, it illustrates a good point. The aim of this unit is to peak the interest of 3-5 year olds in science, chemistry, cooking, and the world around them. The experiments and activities are short, make use of easily available materials, and are designed to stimulate the minds of pre-kindergarten age students in a multi-age classroom. From my teaching experience, I know that young children enjoy discovery activities and learn best by engaging in hands-on activities.
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Extractions: Water Science for Schools - An excellent resource from the U.S.G.S on water. Learn about the properties of water, the water cycle, and water use then test your knowledge in the interactive Activity Center. Oceanography: An ONR Science and Technology Focus Site - A comprehensive site from the Office of Naval Research with detailed topic information, online quizzes and activities. Look under the Ocean Water section for information and activities on salinity, pressure, density, optics, acoustics, and temperature. Why Is the Ocean Salty? - An easy-to-understand primer on salinity including the orgin of the oceans, the source of the ocean's salts, and the complexity and variability of salinity. Trolling the Seas for New Medicines - The American Chemical Society brings you this website with information on how scientists discover and test potentially life-saving drugs from organisms in the ocean. This site also suggests connections to chemistry curriculum, classroom demonstrations and lessons, student projects, and answers to anticipated students' questions. High school level. Water - Sea World's educational guide for grades 4-8 on the properties and characteristics of water.
Extractions: Lesson Planning Center Archives: All Articles by Date The Arts ... Science Lesson Planning Article L E S S O N P L A N N I N G A R T I C L E Savor the season! Bring the colors of fall into the classroom with hands-on science and language activities that will teach important concepts and valuable study skills. Included: Ten activities to teach about the season! Math and graphing charting fall temperatures. Choose a local newspaper, a local TV station, or a national weather Web site, such as the Weather Channel , to use as a resource for collecting local temperatures during September and October. Students can use Education World's Fall Temperatures teaching master as they collect data relating to each day's high temperature, low temperature, and average temperature. Students in grades 4 and above might figure the week's average high, low, and average temperatures. Add a lesson in graphing to the exercise above: Students can create a bar graph or a line chart to show the average temperatures throughout the season. Math estimating.
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Extractions: Email CTAC Who speaks for the group? Sandra Luck, Health Occupations instructor, uses a technique that ensures full participation in collaborative learning groups. Take a standliterally. Nancy King, DADE English instructor, describes a technique that gets all students involved in talking and listening during a class discussion. Evaluate the Evaluator. Robin Ramsey, DADE English and Reading instructor, explains a method for involving students in evaluating each other's writing and the evaluations they receive from each other. "Discovering" Math Formulas. Joe Krzyzanowski, DADE math instructor, uses these activities "to try to show [students] that they are perfectly capable of coming up with formulas and solutions on their ownif they observe, think, guess, and check." "What are the characteristics of ?"
Extractions: Using the Learning Cycle to Teach Physical Science discusses and gives examples of a science teaching strategythe learning cyclethat emphasizes science as a process of inquiry rather than as a body of knowledge, and uses questions, activities, and experiences to guide students in constructing science concepts on their own. The first part of the book discusses the rationale for this approach and its use in teaching science. The second part then gives examples of how the cycle can be used to teach 6 basic physical science concepts: (1) Bernoulli's principle, (2) acids and bases, (3) properties of gases, (4) expansion and contraction of gases, (5) circuits, and (6) density. Price: $26.50 (ISBN 0-435-08376-7).
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Extractions: The Prentice Hall Science Integrated Learning System series is a program for middle school or junior high school students. Designed to cover all relevant areas of science, this program consists of 19 books, each in a particular topic area, such as sound and light, the planet earth, and chemistry of matter. Seven science themes are incorporated into the program; the themes are energy, evolution, patterns of change, scale and structure, systems and interactions, unity and diversity, and stability. For each unit, teaching materials, ancillary student materials, and some optional components are available. Reading level: 12. The textbook Chemistry of Matter, which introduces students to the chemical properties of matter, is organized in 5 chapters: (1) "Atoms and Bonding," (2) "Chemical Reactions," (3) "Families of Chemical Compounds," (4) "Petrochemical Technology," and (5) "Radioactive Elements." Students learn about ionic, covalent, and metallic bonds and about how to predict bond type. They also learn about chemical reactions, chemical equations, and the energy associated with chemical reactions. They study the nature of solutions and the factors that affect the rate of solution and solubility. Students also investigate acids, bases, and salts, as well as carbon compounds, petrochemical technology, and polymerization. They are introduced to the properties of radioactive elements, find out how nuclear reactions (including transmutation, fission, and fusion) occur, and learn about the uses and dangers of radioactivity.
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Extractions: I want to use the class time for discussion (with minimal introduction by me) so I'll be assuming that you're familiar with the main ideas. The foundational principles are explained in the Aesop's Activities page (there is a link to it below). You can skim this page if you want, quickly grabbing the basic ideas about personal motivation and goal-directed design of instruction . Discussion-based labs are introduced at the end of Section 3, and are examined in detail on the Discussion-Based Labs page , which I hope will be the main focus of our discussion in class. Some examples of "making students aware of their opportunities for learning" are in
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Extractions: Offered by The Science House, North Carolina State University The Science House provides one or two-day programs to update and refresh teachers' mathematics, science, and Internet skills. These workshops have been taught many times in schools across North Carolina. Our workshop participants learn skills and activities that they can immediately use in their own classrooms. We especially emphasize programs to help meet teacher technology competencies. Each workshop can be tailored to fit local needs. Open Registration Workshops GIS in the Classroom This workshop will provide teachers with a basic overview to Geographic Information Systems technology. As the importance of the earth/environmental science curriculum in North Carolina grows, computer applications that support these sciences grow as well. The GIS software applications are visual mapping techniques to enhance the way that scientists, community planners, and business professionals examine data. GIS is a tool that will allow analysis of information in a different and powerful fashion. For middle and high school teachers. To register visit the
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Extractions: Most campuses have a chemistry course for students majoring in a non-science related subject. There is no nationally agreed-upon curriculum for these courses - a reflection of the different ideas about the purposes of the course. This conference will present papers that consider different content and approaches which have been taken to the teaching of these courses. Online discussion will be a prominent feature of the conference so please join us in discussing these papers. For more information please contact one of the organizers: Paul Kelter Renee Cole Department of Chemistry Department of Chemistry and Physics University of Illinois Central Missouri State University Urbana, IL 61801 Warrensburg MO 64093 217-333-4323 660-543-8704 paulkelter@yahoo.com rcole@socket.net Group 1 Mon. 1/12
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