ANNOUNCING

 

FALL WORKSHOP

For

MIDDLE/ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ACADEMY OF SCIENCE

 

Fall Workshop Date: September 29, 2007

 

Newberry College
Registration Deadline: September, 19, 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

 

Keynote Address:

 

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

Phone: (803) 777-8759; or FAX (803) 777-4396; or E-mail: kurlycha@gwm.sc.edu

Web: www.scacadsci.org  click on MESAS

 

 

NURTURING SCIENCE AND MATH IN SOUTH CAROLINA

For GRADES 4-8

Sponsored by the South Carolina Academy of Science & Newberry College