WISTR Summer Workshop Links

TEACHING RESOURCES

• Inquiry: Step Across This Line, Salman Rushdie

• Evaluating Internet Sources

  1. Adventus Internetus and the Anaerobic Soul
  2. Evaluating Internet Research Sources
  3. Evaluation of Information Sources

• Chemistry in Daily Life

  1. Prometheans in the Lab

• Sugar substitutes

  1. How Sweet It Isn't
  2. Sugar is Latest Supermarket Demon
  3. New Sugar Substitutes
  4. "Does This Goo Make You Groan?" Melanie Warner, New York Times, July 2, 2006
  5. "The Search for Sweet" Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, May 22, 2006, page 40

• Ideas from Access Excellence (http://www.accessexcellence.org/index.html)

  1. Elements with Biological Roles
  2. Chemistry of Health

• Bioethics

  1. Bioethics
  2. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, HarperPerennial, New York, 1st published in 1932
  3. Gattaca (1997), film

• Polymer/plastic websites

  1. http://pslc.ws/macrog/kidsmac/index.htm Lots of excellent links, including a "polymer mall" with information about everyday polymers you may not even know about
  2. http://www.plastics.ca/teachers/

 

Jennifer Frederick , Ph.D.
Dept. of Chemistry, WCSU
203-837-aaaa
frederickj@wcsu.edu

FACULTY RESEARCH
• current projects
• resources

 

• Basics of DNA, genes, heredity

  1. http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/

• Chemistry Activities for the classroom.

  1. WonderNet
  2. Countertop chemistry
  3. Flinn chemistry demonstrations
  4. Wonder Science

• Accidental Discoveries

  1. Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science
WISTR 2006-2007 Research Team
 

NAME / AFFILIATION / PROJECT TITLE

  • Sue Demattio (Danbury) - Exposure to Scientific Research on Student Classroom Experience
  • Catia Wolff (Danbury) - Integrated Research on Chemical and Biological Polymers
  • MaryJac Reed (Norwalk) - Development of Instructional Materials for Integrated Research Experience
   

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