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National Chemistry Week Resources for High and Middle School Science

Presented by: Michael Tinnesand and Tracy Halmi

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Tracy Halmi• Penn State Erie, The Behrend College• National Chemistry Week (NCW) Chair

Michael Tinnesand• Former high school chemistry teacher• Former Associate Director of the ACS Education

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Introducing today’s presenters…

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Science is all about BIG ideas…

But sometimes we must start very

small

Photo: lbl.gov

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Procedure:1. Make the battery and bulb circuit (see diagram).Have your adult partner help you assemble the apparatus.

2. Use the pencil to draw and color in a thick, dark box on the piece of paper. Make it several inches long and around half an inch wide.

Tip: Make the box as dark as you can — try not to let any patches of paper show through.

Exploring Materials—Graphene

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3. Touch the two insulated wire leads to the graphite box. Watch the bulb—what happens?

Record the distance between the two leads and record your observation in the table. Now try moving the leads closer together and further apart.

What differences do you notice? Record your results in the observation section.

Safety note: never use a plain wire to connect the terminals on any battery directly together. This could cause a short-circuit , overheating or even an explosion.

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4. Draw some other heavy dark paths that are not straight and check them with your battery apparatus. Record your results in your observation.

Safety note: never use a plain wire to connect the terminals on any battery directly together. This could cause a short-circuit , overheating or even an explosion.

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Graphite conducts electricity because it has a large number of delocalized elections, which are free to move, similar to metals.

If this sample was pure graphene it would act like a super conductor at room temperature.

What’s Going On?

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What’s Going On?

On the right is an artist’s impression of different localized chemical and electrical environments created on a single sheet. This possibility can allow faster and smaller electronic circuits.

(Illustration by Krista Shapton)

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Let’s pause for questions.

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A. Chemists

B. Teachers

C. Students

D. The public

E. All of the above

Who Celebrates National Chemistry Week?

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National Chemistry WeekFourth Week in October

2005: The Joy of Toys

2006: Your Home - It’s All Built on Chemistry

2007: The Many Faces of Chemistry (20th Anniversary)

2008: Having a Ball with Chemistry – The Chemistry of Sports

2009: Chemistry – It’s Elemental!

2010: Behind the Scenes with Chemistry

2011: Chemistry – Our Health, Our Future!

2012: Nanotechnology: The Smallest BIG Idea in ScienceOctober 21 - 27

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25 Years of NCW

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www.acs.org/ncw

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Tools for Teachers: Resources for NCWCelebrating Chemistry

• Activities

• Articles

• Career info

• Puzzles

• Games

FREE copies available!!!

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Articles from Celebrating Chemistry

What is nanotechnology?

Sunscreens

25 Years of NCW

Meg A. Mole Interviews

http://portal.acs.org/portal/PublicWebSite/education/outreach/ncw/CNBP_030513

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Exploring Materials – Graphene

Does Size Make a Difference

Exploring a Hydrogel

Safe in the Sun

http://portal.acs.org/portal/PublicWebSite/education/outreach/ncw/CNBP_030513

Activities from Celebrating Chemistry

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Activity adapted from “Draw a Circuit,”Nanoscale Informal Science Education (NISE) Network.

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Let’s pause for questions.

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Does Size Matter?

In this activity you will learn about how materials and also physical forces behave differently when things get very, very small.

Throw a baseball in the air and you can predict what will happen – it will fall to the ground due to gravity. The diameter of a baseball is about 73 millimeters. What if that baseball were only 73 nanometers in diameter? Would it behave differently? Would gravity be the only force influencing the ball?

We are going to explore this idea… but instead of baseballs, we are going to look at water drops.

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Materials

• A canning jar (pint or quart)

• Ring part of the lid for the jar

• A Styrofoam plate• A ruler• A sharp pencil• Scissors• A pail (optional)

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Procedures

1. Trace the opening of the jar with your pencil on the Styrofoam plate and cut it out.2. Fill your canning jar with water.3. Place your Styrofoam circle into the ring lid and screw it onto your jar.4. Poke a small hole into the center of your Styrofoam circle with your pencil point. Measure and record the diameter of your hole in the data table.

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Procedures (continued)

5. Working over a sink or pail, place your finger over the hole and turn the jar upside down. Ask your adult lab partner for help if you need it. Keep the upside-down jar straight up and down, and hold it steady. Slide your finger off of the hole. Water should not come out of the hole.

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Procedures (continued)

6. Turn your jar upright. Make the hole bigger by pushing your pencil a little farther into the hole and repeat the procedure.Record your observation. Record the diameter of the hole and your observations.

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Procedures (continued)

7. Keep increasing the size of the hole with your pencil and repeating the procedure until the water comes spilling out.Record all diameter measurements in your data table.

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How does it work?

• Surface tension

• At the nano scale, properties change

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How many years have you had students participate in an NCW contest?A. Never

B. 1-2 years

C. 3-4 years

D. 4-5 years

E. 6 or more years

2010 Winner Stephanie Schopowal, 10th Grade, Oscar Smith High School

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K-12 Illustrated Poem Contest (2012 Winners)

Catherine Zhou8th Grade, Glasgow Middle School

Baton Rouge Local Section

James Titolo, Jr. 2nd Grade, Bishop Dunn Memorial School

Mid-Hudson Local Section

Tools for Teachers: Resources for NCW

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NCW Community EventDo More with Less!

For the 2012 NCW Community Event, take action on at least one way to "Do More with Less" in your local community.

• recycling drive• canned food drive• health fair• park clean-up• any activity that improves

your region

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More Activities: www.acs.org/kids

Tools for Teachers: Resources for NCW

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ChemMatters—A magazine for high school chemistry students

www.acs.org/chemmatters

• Magazine articles and activities• Online Teacher’s Guide• Browsing by chemistry topics• Video podcasts – search for the ChemMatters channel on You Tube or download from the ChemMatters website. •To receive updates about new online content LIKE Chemmatters on the Facebook.

http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_MULTICOLUMN_T2_66&node_id=1090&use_sec=false&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=b1731cb3-2e7f-4674-809d-0f7f0e60bd92

Tools for Teachers: Resources for NCW

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National Chemistry Historic LandmarksA series of online resources based on historic chemistry landmarks. Celebrating seminal achievements in the history of chemical sciences.

http://acswebcontent.acs.org/education/chemical_landmarks/timeline/timeline2/timeline2.html

Tools for Teachers: Resources for NCW

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• The mission is to support a community of educators and students as they experience chemistry beyond the classroom.

• ACS ChemClubs provide fun, hands-on opportunities through free resources.

• Just about 500 Clubs throughout the U.S.and Puerto Rico, plus international clubsin Brazil and U.K.

• Find out more and apply at www.acs.org/chemclub

What is the ACS High School ChemClub Program?

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$25 annual subscription rate for K–12 and homeschool teachers12 print issues, full access to online issue archive from 1924 to current issueOver 100 JCE Classroom Activities especially for middle school/high school

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Chemical & Engineering News—The journal of the American Chemical Society, with helpful sites such as ‘What’s That Stuff?’

http://cen.acs.org/collections/wts.html

Tools for Teachers: Resources for NCW

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ACS Resources for Middle and High School

• Middleschoolchemistry.com

• Inquiry in Action

• Best of WonderScience

(2 volumes)

• Apples, Bubbles and Crystals

• Sunlight, Skyscrapers and Soda Pop

• Chemistry in the Community (ChemCom) textbook

• ACS Examinations Institute

• Green Chemistry Teaching Resources

• Teaching Chemistry to Students with Disabilities

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Let’s pause for questions.

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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/making-stuff.html#making-stuff

Thanks Greglynn Gibbs, Lehigh Valley Local Section ACS PR Chair

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Rainbow FilmHow can you make rainbow colors out of clear nail polish?

In this activity, kids use clear nail polish to create a beautiful iridescent pattern on black paper.

Suitable for kids ages 3 and up.

"Developed for the NISE Network with funding from the National Science Foundation under Award Numbers 0532536 and 0940143. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation."

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• Shallow pan• Strips of black paper (Bristol is best, but

construction paper works)• Clear nail polish• Pencil• Place to let paper dry

Materials

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Preparation: 5 minutes

Activity: 5 minutes

Cleanup: 5 minutes

Note: It takes about 30 minutes for thebookmarks to dry.

Preparation

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Step 1Use the pencil to write your name on a strip of black paper.

Holding onto one end, slide the paper into the pan.

Make sure it’s completely under water (except for the end you’re holding).

Procedure

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Step 2Use the brush to drip one drop of nail polish onto the surface of the water.

Watch what happens—the polish instantly spreads out into a thin film!

Procedure

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Step 3Lift the paper up and out of the water.

The film of nail polish will stick to the paper.

Does the nail polish still look clear?

Procedure

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The nail polish spreads out into a thin film, which creates iridescent colors on the paper.

The film is only a few hundred nanometers thick.

Light reflected from the upper and lower boundaries of the film interfere with each other to form a variety of new wavelengths –and new colors.

What’s going on?

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Thin films can reflect light in special ways because they’re only a few hundred nanometers thick.

That’s in the same size range as the wavelength of visible light.

Soap bubbles and oil slicks are some other examples.

How is this nano?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmUeCf_bI-s

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FREE!!!

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“Hunting the Elements”with NOVA and the American Chemical Society

NOVA's "Hunting the Elements" program spins viewers through the world of weird, extreme chemistry: the strongest acids, the deadliest poisons, and the universe’s most abundant elements. Join the American Chemical Society and NOVA for a free, professional development webinar about available chemistry resources for your classroom based on the program!

When: Wednesday, October 24, 2012Time: 6:30 pm ESTRegister: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YSWC7F2

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Bibliography

• Celebrating Chemistry: http://portal.acs.org/portal/PublicWebSite/education/outreach/ncw/CNBP_030513

• Terrific Science Health Science Resources: http://www.terrificscience.org/freebies/

• ACS Education Division: acs.org/education

• Chemical & Engineering News: http://cen.acs.org/index.html

• Science for Kids:www.acs.org/kids

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• Historic Landmarks: http://acswebcontent.acs.org/education/chemical_landmarks/timeline/timeline2/timeline2.html

• ACS High School Chem Clubs (Free resources to start and run the chemistry clubs):www.acs.org/chemclub

• Journal of Chemical Education: http://pubs.acs.org/journal/jceda8

• ChemMatters video on nanotechnology (search YouTube for ChemMatters): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbcn7FR3pdg&feature=player_embedded

Bibliography

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• Chemmatters (stories to demystify everyday chemistry): www.acs.org/chemmatters

• Making Stuff (NOVA): http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/making-stuff.html#making-stuff

• NISE Network: http://www.nisenet.org/

• NNIN: http://www.nnin.org/

Bibliography

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Tracy Halmi

Michael Tinnesand

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