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• Dual Processing Workshops Part 2; Day 1

  • When
    March 22, 2023
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    6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    ON LINE

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  THIS IS A CONTINUATION OF THE NORTHERN DIVISION MEETING FROM LAST FALL.

  While this is designed for folks who came to the fall presentations, this pair of workshops is also open to those who did not attend in the fall. -Sue Klemmer, NEACT facilitator

  We are excited to continue thinking about how to apply ideas and strategies drawn from dual-process theories of reasoning to the learning and teaching of chemistry. In the fall workshops, the strategies we presented included screening-target pairs of questions on a given concept as well as reasoning chain construction tasks.  

  The focus of the spring workshops will be on developing, implementing, and testing your own questions/tasks.  

  In preparation for the first workshop (on Wednesday, March 22), we would like you to explore the following reasoning chain construction tasks (some of which include screening questions):

  Meaning of a mole: https://pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9t056OcQKvqjbTg

  Atomic Emissions Spectra:  https://pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_78v5XKKdyeK7ODk

  Periodic Trends: https://pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0GN6WLU7Tz2bae2

  Bond breaking energy: https://pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0jPF4RhNV2YH5dk

  Ideal Gas Law: https://pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9Nd3flxoyMRPcnY

  
  

  We also ask that you come to the meeting with an idea (e.g., a concept or question) for a task of your own.  

  In the workshop, we will spend part of the time addressing any questions you may have on the tasks we have shared.  The rest of the session will be time for you to work on developing your own tasks (either individually or collaboratively) with support from us.  

  For the second spring workshop (Wednesday, April 26), the goal is to discuss your finalized tasks and provide you with an opportunity to share any data/results/insights from administering your tasks to students. We can also think about possible task refinements, etc.

  We look forward to seeing you again!

  Beth, Mac, and Mila

  
  

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• Chemistry PD Series: Helping our students think at the atomic scale

  • When
    April 12, 2023
  •  
    4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    An online meeting

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  Chemistry PD Series:  Helping our students think at the atomic scale

  This meeting will be held virtually.  RSVP by 4/10/2023 to be sent the meeting link.
  

  Engagement about what’s going on at the atomic scale, e.g., bonding or any other impossible to see phenomena, is well known to be difficult with students! Why? 

  This talk is an introduction to what’s going on here, how to understand these interactions, and how to support your students in these discussions by introducing some thinking norms. The goal is to illustrate how improvement to these discussions can be made without dramatically changing any of your activities, but rather by understanding what is necessary to support these thinking practices, whose insight is behind the notion that chemistry is the central science.
  

  
  

  Presenter Mitchell Bruce is a professor of chemistry at the University of Maine.  His collaborators on this project are Alice Bruce (professor and chemistry department chair at the University of Maine) and Joe Walter (at the RiSE Center at the University of Maine and Lincoln Academy in Newcastle, ME).   

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• April 2023 ChemChat

  • When
    April 13, 2023
  •  
    4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    online

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  ChemChats are monthly open roundtable discussions on Zoom facilitated by NEACT.  ChemChats are aimed at high school and college chemistry teachers but are open to all STEM teachers. Come to share ideas, come to ask questions, or just come for the collegiality.

  Our topic for this afternoon is "ELECTROCHEMISTRY". You are welcome to post documents in this folder. And inside the folder is a document where you can post questions and needs.

  ChemChats are hosted by Sue Klemmer. I am ZOOMING from the coast of Maine, so times are always stated as east coast time (even though ME should technically be on Maritime time!) We run 4:00-5:00 pm EST.

  The next ChemChat will be Thursday May 11th. The topic will be determined at the April ChemChat.

  
  

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• Dual Processing Workshops Part 2; Day 2

  • When
    April 26, 2023
  •  
    6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    ON LINE

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  THIS IS A CULMINATION OF THE FALL and MARCH MEETINGS on DUAL PROCESSING.

  This workshop is intended for those who came to the March workshop. If you did not, you are welcome to come and listen in to find out what Dual Processing tasks are all about, but there will not be time for the presenters to go back and teach the theory.  -Sue Klemmer, NEACT facilitator

  We are excited to continue thinking about how to apply ideas and strategies drawn from dual-process theories of reasoning to the learning and teaching of chemistry. In the fall workshops, the strategies we presented included screening-target pairs of questions on a given concept as well as reasoning chain construction tasks.  

  For the second spring workshop (Wednesday, April 26), the goal is to discuss your finalized tasks and provide you with an opportunity to share any data/results/insights from administering your tasks to students. We can also think about possible task refinements, etc.
  

  We look forward to seeing you again!

  Beth, Mac, and Mila

  
  

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• 2023 Annual Summer Conference

  • Start
    August 01, 2023
  • End
    August 02, 2023
  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    Fitchburg State University, Fitchburg MA

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  NEACT is pleased to announce that the 2023 Summer Conference will be held IN PERSON at Fitchburg State University on August 1-2, 2023.  

  This year's theme is "Engaging Chemistry:  Hands on, minds on!"

  Consider presenting at the 2023 NEACT Summer Conference. We are accepting proposals on any aspect of chemistry education. Share your insights and experiences with chemistry teachers from across the country.

  Submit your proposal here

  
  

  
  

  
  

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