Our Fourth Meeting of the year.....

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Room 250

Of course, please feel free to bring anything else you would like to share even if it does not pertain to our topic. We are always interested in what you are doing with your classes!

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It is not too early to think summer! (Please tell me I am right!) Here are a few opportunities for you:

The University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Chemistry Presents

"Weird Science and Wade, Edition 10"

A Workshop Course in Chemistry for High School/Junior High School Teachers.

What: Weird Science appears for the Xth time at UIC this summer with new material, and it promises to be the Ultimate or maybe last! So come and get your U highly organized for effective work with students all year, without having to put on too much heat. There is a thermo joke in there somewhere!

Where and When: On the UIC campus from 8:30 am until 5 pm daily, August 8-12, 2005.

Weird Science consists of documented chemistry demos, labs, computer applications, make-and-takes, and lectures that chemistry teachers can really use. The 2005 Weird Science Workshop will continue the highly successful format of previous years. It is offered as Chem 572 (Teaching Methods in Chemistry), a three-semester-hour graduate-level course.

Why: This LATEST & MAYBE LAST IMPROVED version of "A WEEK WITH WEIRD SCIENCE & WADE" combines demos, labs, computers, make-and-takes, lectures in chemistry, thermochemistry, making inquiry-based labs work, spotting common misconceptions and dealing with them and much more.

Who: Summer '05 group will tentatively include in addition to the usual crew along with:

Dr. Jesse Bernstein a chemistry teacher at the Hawken School in Gates Mills, OH bringing some of his creative labs in inquire based learning and in forensic chemistry. Jesse has served as a mentor on the US Chem Olympiad Team. He will be here all week serving up labs and his fount of knowledge.

Jason Neil a high school chemistry teacher from Michigan and founder of chemistryinquiry.com will come in for part of a day to:

1. Talk about how he does a whole YEAR of chemistry using guided inquiry lesson plans

2. Show some simple explanations for implementing guided inquiry in chemistry

3. Give some free guided inquiry lessons to try with your chemistry classes.

For more on this please visit:

Flinn will bring a set of their best new labs if times can be arranged.

We will of course again have build-it-yourself stuff and give-a-ways!

For details, contact Wade Freeman Univ. of IL. at Chicago, Chem. Dept., 845 W. Taylor St. Chicago, IL. 60607 phone; (312) 996-3161; e-mail: Wfreeman@uic.edu

Credit: Chem 572 is not available on a non-credit basis, but may be repeated for credit if you have taken it before. A maximum of three semester-hours of credit in Chem 572 may be applied toward the requirements for the M.S. or the Ph.D. in chemistry at UIC.

Tuition and Fees: Extramural tuition is $816 plus a $45 course fee.

**Scholarships**: All participants receive a $250 scholarship after successful completion of the course. Is this strange or what!

Our one-week workshop will change how you teach chemistry! Consider attending a Flinn Scientific Foundation Summer Chemistry Workshop. Every workshop contains more than 100 chemical demonstrations and experiments, dozens of hands-on labs and a complete laboratory manual. You'll share ideas and discuss chemistry with teachers just like yourself. Best of all, you'll learn from the best! Our workshop mentor teachers are considered to be the finest high school chemistry teachers in the United States.

The workshop sites and dates for summer 2005 are as follows:

6/20-6/24 University of North Texas, Denton, TX

7/11-7/15 The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH

7/18-7/22 Saint Xavier University, Chicago, IL

7/18-7/22 Auburn University, Auburn University, AL

7/18-7/22 Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science, Worcester, MA

7/25-7/29 University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO

for more information about the workshops and to download an application form to send in. If you have any questions, e-mail us at flinnfoundation@flinnsci.com or call Jan Foulkes at 1-800-452-1261.

Flinn Scientific would like to alert you to a tremendous opportunity. Several "Safe Chemicals in Education Workshop" presentations sponsored by the Illinois EPA, Waste Management Resource Center, and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources are being held at different locations across Illinois in February and March.

Teachers who attend these workshops are eligible to receive one CEU and qualify for free chemical pick-up of educational hazardous materials at their school.

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