Making STEM Relevant: Chemistry
For more information or to register go to: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=vlphqbdab&oeidk=a07e5kxfysv3eddf0dc DSSP Chemistry Institute for Secondary Teachers is a fast paced, intensive summer workshop for chemistry teachers’ professional development, consisting of lab experiences, technology, and a Web site. The workshop focuses on three elements of chemistry teaching: • Chemistry as a scientific discipline • The art of educational pedagogy • Up-to-date technological applications The workshop includes teachers from secondary schools in the Central Valley who are involved in classroom activities and laboratory experiments in chemistry. The workshop helps teacher reflect upon their own teaching and provides a forums on how to teach chemistry. The workshop also provides a rich source of activities, experiments, and reading resources for teachers to use in their daily work. University professors add depth and breadth of content needed for secondary chemistry teachers. This summer workshop also draws upon local expertise in a variety of chemistry disciplines. Industrial chemists, pharmacy students and food scientists will explain the role chemistry plays in their world. This will help teachers to provide relevance to the teaching that will occur back in the classroom. The chemistry content will include the following: Visualizing macro to micro environments – this involves teaching chemistry through macro phenomena, which can be observed, and micro processes, which occur on the molecular level and can only be imagined. Chemical design uses the experiences from everyday life, such as the stoichiometry of baking, the ingredients of soft drinks, the components of drugs, and the chromatography of markers to understand basic chemical processes. Chemistry of life revolves around the structure and function of biological molecule focusing on the fact that living organisms are vast chemical systems. Chemistry of the environment addresses local and global topics related to environmental issues such as water quality, food safety, and chemistry in the atmosphere.
