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Chemistry Alliance

Make-and-Take Event

Tuesday, January 28

4:30-6:30 p.m.

Room NS 404

Come to learn strategies that can be used in your classroom and take equipment and supplies back to school with you to begin implementing the activities right away.

Refreshments will be available at 4:15.

Park in one of the parking garages and bring your ticket to be stamped.

If the weather if poor we will try to hold the event on the next evening January 29^th.

Please R.S.V.P. to Linda.Weber@campbell.kyschools.us by Monday, January 27

We had a great turnout for the make and take. We completed 5 projects including

1) a genecon setup for the electrolysis of water

2) designs for a genecon setup using small lamps

3) an isotope activity using different color beads

4) a factor label exercise using dominoes

5) a polarity of water demonstration using balloons and bubbles.

I hope everyone that was able to attend had a good time.

Brad

Afternoon everyone,

Our final meeting of the year will take place April 17^th at 4:30 pm in SC 404 in the science center at NKU. This meeting will concentrate on tips for teaching stoichiometry to your students.  Bring your best tricks to share with the group.

Hope to see everyone there. Be sure to park in one of the garages and bring your ticket in to get it validated.

Brad

Morning everyone,

Over the last couple weeks several things have crossed my desk that I thought some of you may be interested in. The first couple are about the make and take.  But here there are

1)      What day works best for people?  We are looking at the last couple of Mondays and Wednesdays in January. To vote though we created a doodle poll to tabulate the results. If you want to vote click the link and make the dates that will work for you. The doodle poll can be found at:

http://doodle.com/egb6t8uueakmsxkx

2)      If you have ideas for make and take items we would love to hear about them. Drop me a line as sieveb1@nku.edu and we will do what we can get things put together.  These can be from simple things like a conductivity tester to more extravagant items such as rainbow tubes.

3)      The periodic table cards we gave away at CINSAM night I have found a cheaper source using amazon that I wanted to pass alone.  They can be found here for about 5 dollar less

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0973950668/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d3_g14_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0Z1GEFPKTKAEFNTQSCKP&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846

4)      I found a few websites that may be of interest this last week

1. A very nice periodic table which included in depth information about each element along with family classifications. I have switched to this one from web elements for most uses.

http://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/

1. A nice site showing the size comparison for normal objects along with atomic sizes

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/

1. Finally the Royal Society Journals has made all articles over 70 years old free in pdf form. Meaning you can find articles back to 1665 to use as you will.

http://royalsociety.org/news/Royal-Society-journal-archive-made-permanently-free-to-access/

http://royalsocietypublishing.org/search

5)      I have been asked to pass alone a announcement about an education course covering environmental issues in case anyone is interested. The flyer is attached to this email.

6)      After the last meeting I was speaking with someone about lab grading rubrics and syllabi. While we don’t have rubrics exactly I have gotten the syllabi from the chemistry and biology courses but of course at this point I cannot remember who I was speaking with. Whoever that was or anyone interested in seeing the syllabi could you please send me a quick email.

Sorry this email has gotten so long but as I said I had several things I thought you may find interesting.

Brad