ANNOUNCING
For
MIDDLE/ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
Fall Workshop Date: September 29, 2007
Charles N. Horn, PhD
Chair, Department of Biology & Chemistry Dept.
Newberry College, 2100 College Street
Newberry, SC 29108
Phone: (803) 321-5257 E-mail: charles.horn@newberry.edu
Who Can Attend: Students in grades 4 - 8, parents, & teachers
Dr. Bill Hilton, Jr.
Executive Director, Hilton Pond Center for the Piedmont Natural History, York, SC
www.hiltonpond.org or www.rubythroat.org
IN ADDITION, THERE WILL BE:
Thirty Hands-on Sessions in Science, Engineering, & Environmental Science (students pick two)
Topics include:
Build & Launch your own Rocket; See Sound for the First Time; learn about chemical reactions; Make Earrings Using Chemistry; find out how to excavate a shipwreck, Chain Gang & Chemistry, Polynomials & Polymers, study environmental forensics, explore ETV's Knowitall, learn to juggle and find out how it helps you in school, review critical thinking and basic mathematical skills, use aquatic organisms to determine if a water body of the state is populated, understand acids & bases & their effect on indicators, investigate the motions of our star, and much, much more !
Parents are Welcome to Attend!
Great Ideas for Classroom Teachers, too!
For more information about the scheduled workshop, to register,
or how to join the Middle/Elementary School Academy of Science,
contact:
Don Jordan c/o
Anthony Kurlychek, Assistant to MESAS
College of
Arts & Sciences / Center for Science Education / Sumwalt Room 321 /
University of South Carolina / Columbia, SC 29208
Web: www.scacadsci.org click on MESAS
NURTURING SCIENCE AND MATH IN SOUTH CAROLINA
For GRADES 4-8