The Chemistry Outreach Program: Women Undergraduates Presenting Chemistry to Middle School Students

Lee, Nancy E.; Schreiber, Kathryn G.

doi:10.1021/ed076p917

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“…They were very interested in how one gets to go to college and what it is like once you get there. This is similar to the experience described in this Journal with the Simmons College Outreach program (7 ). This was particularly impressive as the population of Serrano Middle School is 81% minority students, 60% of the students are English language learners, and only 4% of Serrano Middle School parents attended college.…”

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“…For example, faculty serve as mentors for high school students, judge local science fairs, and even work with primary students on their science fair projects. Another mechanism, which serves the primary and secondary students, is to send faculty or college students out into local schools to participate in science education by acting as teaching assistants or science advisors or by doing demonstrations (4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9).…”

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Combining Active Learning with Service Learning: A Student-Driven Demonstration Project

Hatcher-Skeers

Aragon²

2002

J. Chem. Educ.

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Combining Active Learning with Service Learning: A Student-Driven Demonstration Project

Hatcher-Skeers

Aragon²

2002

J. Chem. Educ.

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“…A number of chemistry outreach programs have previously been developed to provide elementary through high school students with unique opportunities to experience the excitement of chemistry through demonstrations (3)(4)(5)(6) and hands-on experiments (7)(8)(9)(10)(11). Recent studies indicate that girls in particular benefit from participation in extracurricular science programs designed specifically for young women (1).…”

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An Interactive Analytical Chemistry Summer Camp for Middle School Girls

Robbins¹

2005

J. Chem. Educ.

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An interactive chemistry outreach program designed specifically for middle school girls is described. The goal of this program is to expose girls to analytical chemistry in a way that will spark their interest in how it is studied, its role in modern scientific research, and some of the educational and career opportunities that this field has to offer. This objective is accomplished by providing the girls with a unique opportunity to conduct college-level scientific experiments adapted from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill undergraduate chemistry laboratories. Groups of 3–4 girls are paired with female chemistry graduate students who serve in both an instructional and mentoring capacity. The laboratory experiments are designed to promote the development of personal confidence, critical thinking, and the ability to function as a contributing member of a team, while expanding their knowledge of analytical chemistry. It is our belief that a memorable experience that involves active participation in exciting and challenging experiments, coupled with the development of mentoring relationships with enthusiastic female graduate students, has the potential to positively impact the future educational and career decisions of the girls who participate in this program.

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“…The benefits of combining chemistry and outreach programs are obvious: community interaction and science education are beneficial to the students, the college or university, and to the public at large (12). However, almost all of these programs have involved the use of chemistry majors (13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18). Having nonscience majors introduce chemistry to youth groups is an effective way to show the importance of science to one's life, regardless of an individual's interests.…”

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Chemical Demonstrations as the Laboratory Component in Nonscience Majors Courses. An Outreach-Targeted Approach

2005

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In place of traditional cookbook laboratory exercises, a nonmajors' chemistry course uses a demonstration-focused laboratory to understand basic chemical theories. Each student spends the lab session preparing, practicing, and learning the chemistry of two unique demonstrations. By selecting demonstrations of different concepts, the students cover the same breadth and type of themes as a traditional laboratory in a new and exciting format. Twice during the semester, students from the course prepare and present two demonstration shows as an outreach program to 3rd–5th graders at local elementary schools. The demonstration format provides the college nonscience students an active-learning experience that is able to provide motivation and generate interest. Overall, the students felt that the demonstration-focused laboratory succeeded in increasing their level of understanding of material, strengthened their interest in science, and held their interest. This pedagogy also provides purpose for studying chemical concepts and direction as students strive to explain concepts to younger children.

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The Chemistry Outreach Program: Women Undergraduates Presenting Chemistry to Middle School Students

Cited by 17 publications

References 7 publications

Combining Active Learning with Service Learning: A Student-Driven Demonstration Project

Combining Active Learning with Service Learning: A Student-Driven Demonstration Project

An Interactive Analytical Chemistry Summer Camp for Middle School Girls

Chemical Demonstrations as the Laboratory Component in Nonscience Majors Courses. An Outreach-Targeted Approach

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