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KINETICS, ENERGISTICS AND REDOX FOR SECONDARY CHEMISTRY TEACHERS
This project is funded in part by a federal grant under Title II of the
No Child Left Behind Act (P.L. 107-110) administered by the Arkansas
Department of Higher Education. |
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Many chemistry teachers report having difficulties teaching the content covered in standards 23-25 of the Arkansas Chemistry Frameworks. Standard 23: Students shall understand enthalpy, entropy, and free energy and their relationship to chemical reactions. Standard 24: Students shall understand the factors that affect reaction rate and their relationship to quantitative chemical equilibrium. Standard 25: Students shall understand oxidation-reduction reactions to develop shills in balancing redox equations. This project will offer two graduate level chemistry courses: CHEM 6883
Workshop This class will address the content specifically mentioned the Student Learning Expectations (SLE) in the Arkansas Chemistry Standards 23 and 24. Those topics will include definitions of enthalpy and entropy and their relationship to entropy; the Gibbs Free Energy equation; specific heat, heat of formation, heat of reaction, conservation of energy, activation energy, collision theory and how all of these concepts are related in understanding a chemical reaction. Course instructor will be Dr. Robin Lasey, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, ATU. Class will meet June 9-12, 16-19, 2008. Daily schedule is 8:30-3:30. All books and course materials will be provided. Participants will be responsible for all registration fees (currently $144, subject to increase). A stipend of
$500 will be paid to each participant successfully completing the
course. Housing will be available in the University Commons
Apartments on the campus of ATU at the approximate rate of $27/night
/person. The first 10 people to register and request housing will
receive their housing provided. CHEM 6881
Workshop This class will be scheduled on three days in late summer or early fall of 2008. Exact dates will be determined by the participants in the class and the instructor. Participants will earn 1 graduate credit hour and 5 professional development hours for this course. The class will examine closely the Arkansas Chemistry Standard 25. Participants will enhance their ability to teach concepts of identifying oxidizing and reducing agents as well as elements that are oxidized or reduced in a redox reaction through the assignment of oxidation numbers. Participants will become more efficient in balancing redox reactions under both acidic and basic conditions and will be able to identify the net ionic equation for any reaction. The instructor for the class will be Dr. Robin Lasey, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at ATU. The class will meet for five hours on each of three Saturdays during the late summer or early fall of 2008. Lunch will be provided daily for all participants. Books and materials will be provided. Participants will be responsible for all registration fees (currently $128, subject to increase). Stipends of $250 will be paid to all participants completing the fall course. Registration preference will be given to those teachers completing the June 2008 class. |
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register to participate in the project, complete the workshop
registration form and list the project title "KINETICS, ENERGISTICS AND
REDOX FOR SECONDARY CHEMISTRY TEACHERS" as the workshop name. Mail or
fax the form to the address listed. YOU
MUST INCLUDE A REGISTRATION DEPOSIT OF $50. This
deposit is refundable until May 23rd. After that date
all deposits are non-refundable unless the classes are cancelled.
Personal checks and school/districts purchase orders are accepted.
Registration is not complete until deposit is received.
Deadline for registration is May 23rd. NOTE: You must be admitted to the Graduate School at ATU. If you need to make application, click HERE.
Click HERE to go to the registration form. |