Each year in October, 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).

This program is intended to help connect high school teachers with the numerous education resources that are available from the American Chemical Society.

  Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society

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)

• 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