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Northeastern
Section of the American Chemical Society
CONNECTIONS
TO CHEMISTRY 2008
The Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society (NESACS)
and the Education Committee of the Northeastern Section invite
high school chemistry teachers to a program at Burlington
High School (Burlington, MA) on Thursday, October 16th,
3:30 – 8:00 PM. This program will help connect
high school teachers with the numerous education resources that
are available from the American Chemical Society. Four simultaneous
hands-on workshops will illustrate these resources:
- Prescribing Success for the Future with
Nicole Clark, Intensive Care Clinical Pharmacist, Hallmark Health
System. This workshop demonstrates activities and shares the
curricular connections in chemistry (and math) that pave the
road to becoming a pharmacist, a career that links the chemical
and health sciences in a world of miracle drugs. Participants
will practice hands-on lab demonstrations and activities
to experience the career chemistry and math connections with
which a pharmacist engages on a daily basis. (Workshop A)
- The
Real CSI Lab with Bill Hebard, Chemist, Massachusetts
State Crime Laboratory. Devise an applied chemistry approach
through incorporating forensics into the chemistry curriculum.
Examine the basic principles of science used in the analysis
of forensic evidence: the physics of blood pattern analysis,
the chemistry of forensic toxicology and the biology of biological
fluid identification. Try your hand at forensic techniques. Solve
the crime! (Workshop B)
- “Play Ball!” with
Patrick Drane, Mechanical Engineer and Assistant Director, Baseball
Research Center, University of Massachusetts Lowell. A
program on the National Chemistry Week theme, Having a Ball
with Chemist. Experiment with baseballs, superballs
and various types of bats. High speed videos will show
how the collisions occur; the chemistry of the materials in these
balls and bats will explain why these balls bounce and travel.
(Workshop C)
- Let Your Fingers Do the Walking with
Liana Lamont, Assistant Editor, Journal of Chemical Education,
University of Wisconsin-Madison. A computer-based workshop to offer
you a hands-on look at the extensive resources available at
the ChemEd Nation Science Digital Library. The collection
includes articles from the Journal of Chemical Education, the Chemistry
Comes Alive demonstration videos, and the JCE Classroom
Activities. (Workshop D)
Program
| 3:30 – 4:00 |
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Registration and Refreshments |
| 4:00 – 4:25 |
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Welcome and Overview |
| 4:30 – 6:10 |
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Four Simultaneous 50 Minute
Workshops Presented in Each Session: |
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Session
I: 4:25 – 5:15 |
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Workshops
A & B & C & D |
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Session
II: 5:20 – 6:10 |
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Workshops A & B & C & D |
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Sessions
I and II: 4:30 – 6:10 |
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Workshop E (one 90 minute Computer
Workshop) |
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| 6:15 – 8:00 |
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Dinner and Address |
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Address: …And
Now For Something Completely Different
Thomas H. Lane, President-Elect,
American Chemical Society; Director, Global Science and
Technology Outreach at Dow Corning Corporation |
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• The deadline for registration is Friday, October10th. The
registration fee is $18.00 and is non-refundable after October 8th. Workshop
and program-related materials, dinner, a one-year subscription to ChemMatters, and
a certificate for three hours of Professional Development will be provided
to all workshop participants.
• The detailed program and registration
form can be obtained from the NESACS Web site <http://www.nesacs.org> under Connections
to Chemistry 2008.
• For additional information:
contact
Dr. Ruth Tanner, Chair, Education Committee, NESACS: 978/934-3662 or
by email: Ruth_Tanner@uml.edu |