[neact] PD opportunity for science teachers

Need to brush up on your science?

The Chemistry Department at the University of New Hampshire, Durham,
announces a summer offering of CHEM 409: Chemistry and Society.

This course is targeted toward the curious non-scientist in general, but
particularly elementary educators (pre-service and in-service). We will
explore the chemistry underlying everyday life, and in doing so reveal basic
principles about how matter, the stuff everything is made of, behaves. The 
course
is structured on a series of case studies of relevant current issues: water
quality and toxic sludge, weather patterns, food supply, laundry soap and
plastic bottles, home energy, and other areas of interest. These issues
provide a context for introducing key chemical concepts such as atomic and
molecular structure, chemical bonding, energy and phase change, and chemical
reactions.

Topics are introduced with questions that challenge students to discuss and
explain the workings of the natural world. Hands-on activities allow
students to discover answers to these questions. Our activities will not be
specifically designed to be age-appropriate for K-5 students, but our approach
will offer a general model of inquiry-based classroom instruction. The intent
is to improve students’ understanding of the physical world in a manner that
is meaningful, fun, and interesting.

CHEM 409 will be offered during a 5-week summer session, June 29 – July 31,
2009. The class will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8am – noon, in Parsons
Hall on the Durham campus of UNH. (4 credits/It fulfills a Gen Ed 3P
requirement.)

Instructor: Dr. Katharine Winans, in the Department of Chemistry.
For more information, email: k.winans@xxxxxxx
For summer registration info, visit: http://www.learn2.unh.edu/



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