Thursday, 26 October 2006: 8:30 AM-4:30 PM
OLCC-Oakley (Oakley-Lindsay Center)
Chemical Education and Undergraduate Research (CHED)
Chemical Education (Contributed Papers)
Contemporary issues and developments in curriculum and instruction in chemistry at the high school, junior college, college, and university levels are presented by innovative teachers and professors at the vanguard of chemical education in the 21st century.
Organizer:Roger Festa
Presider:Roger Festa
8:30 AMWelcoming Remarks
8:35 AMA review of responses to mercury spills in four public schools
William C. Penker, Jacob Fenhaus
8:55 AMPromoting chemistry across the curriculum by consideration of DOT placards
William C. Penker
9:15 AMPodcasting in general chemistry
Michael D. Mosher
9:35 AMReflectance Curves: A Color's Unique Fingerprint
Michael J. Welsh
9:55 AMOrganic chemistry courses and their approach to carbocations
Robert Pavlis
10:15 AMBreak
10:35 AMCollaborative Efforts by local Illinois Sections of the American Chemical Society to Promote Chemistry at the Illinois State Fair
Harshavardhan D. Bapat
10:55 AMMultiple uses of UV-Vis, IR, and NMR in the general chemistry program
Curtis R. Pulliam, William F. Pfeiffer
11:15 AMFrom patients of teaching to agents of learning: POGIL and student engagement
Kenneth N. Carter Jr.
11:35 AMINDEPENDENT LABORATORY ACCESS FOR THE BLIND (ILAB): Talking Tools That Enable Blind Students to Pursue Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Careers
H.David Wohlers, Tom Mallouk, Cary A. Supalo, Alan Roth, Andrew Greenberg
11:55 AMConcluding Remarks

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