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. With: Bob Lewis, Lee Marek, Dr. Jesse Bernstein, Dr. Wade Freeman and more! http://www.chem.uic.edu/marek/ 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: http://www.chemistryinquiry.com/inquiry.htm Flinn will bring a set of their best new labs if times can be arranged. Bruce Mattson Professor of Chemistry, Transformer of Matter and founder of the Center for Microscale Gas Chemistry at Creighton University will be with us Monday to run through a series of labs. See his web page: http://mattson.creighton.edu/ 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 WOW more reasons to come: WEIRD SCIENCE is a series of short, easy and sometimes "weird" demonstrations, labs and ideas on chemical and physical phenomena, designed for teachers of the chemistry/physical science, primarily at middle school and high school levels. The program presents novel demonstrations, labs, make & takes, and sharing guaranteed to hook kids and adults into thinking about science concepts. As Hubert Alyea said "Surprise, humor and truth are the servants of a good lecture." WEIRD SCIENCE entertains while it educates-- it is infotainment. It is our job to awaken our student's desire to learn--to keep the students mentally coming back. You cannot communicate with people who are not mentally present. If you want "presence" you have to capture attention. WEIRD SCIENCE provides tools to capture attention. To keep us at equilibrium we have Dr. Wade Freeman author of the much acclaimed college text Chemistry: Science of Change. In a recent survey published in School Science & Mathematics on "Secondary Science Teacher's Needs," teachers ranked methods to motivate students as their number one concern and identification of sources of peer tested instructional materials as a high priority. WEIRD SCIENCE presentations provide both. The following is a list of some comments about WEIRD SCIENCE "A science program's greatest achievement is success in science both for the program's teachers and students. Science teachers must compete with the nation's entertainment professionals to gain the attention of their students. "WEIRD SCIENCE" is "Academy Award" quality material with remarkable technical breadth and content. "WEIRD SCIENCE" is like a switch that "turns on" science students and converts lab periods from "ho hum" to "right on!" --- Larry Flinn, Jr. Flinn Sci. "WEIRD SCIENCE is a four-teacher road show that exposes youngsters to seemingly magical wonders more intriguing than video games." --- Newsweek "At a time when AMERICA'S Educational System is under attack, especially in science and math, WEIRD SCIENCE offers a ray of hope as a much needed inspiration, as a boredom-busting science show."---The Inside Line -Midwest Electronic Manufacturer's Newspaper "The group gives teachers ammunition to use in the classroom."---- Education Week "WEIRD SCIENCE is a must-see for all chemistry teachers"---- Colorado Association of Science Teachers "WEIRD SCIENCE programs and activities are probably the best way to learn how to be a teacher. It's an A-Number-One methods course." ---- Marge Bardeen Program Manager for the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory's Education Office from a feature on WEIRD SCIENCE in the Chicago Tribune WEIRD SCIENCE is "Teaching teachers to make it fun... to entertain and educate students."---- Charles Kuralt, CBS TV show "School's In" "I can honestly say, and I mean this exactly as it reads, that I learned more from this one course than I did in pursuing my entire Masters Degree in Education. Classes full of people who babble about educational theory without having taught a day in their lives are not what we need; courses taught for teachers by teachers are what we need. Thank you for providing something useful. XXXXXXX University's Education Department could learn a few things, no a lot of things, from you guys." Karen Kerney. Niles West 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! The University is not quite ready to start registration, which will be entirely on-line. Wade Freeman will send you a note when things are set up, and he has the exact URL for the registration, which will also be accessible from UIC's Office of Continuing Education web site at http://www.oce.uic.edu/oce/ocepublic/ To get on Wade’s email list contact him at wfreeman@uic.edu
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