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Chemistry Department
UMass Boston
*This is Your Brain on Civically-Engaged Chemistry
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*Course Description
Freshman Seminar for Chemistry Majors*Introduces students to the college experience
*Fosters interest in chemistry and how to learn chemistry successfully
*Integrating theme: the science of learning as applied to chemistry
*Focuses on chemistry-specific learning and strategic use of academic resources
*Involves freshmen in assisting in K-12 science classrooms and chemistry education outreach activities as medium for learning about learning chemistry
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*Project Team
Members of the Project Team**Hannah Sevian, Associate Professor, Department of
Chemistry
*Robert Carter, Chair, Department of Chemistry
*Steven Cullipher, Ph.D. Student, Department of Chemistry
*Corey Pasakarnis, Senior majoring in Chemistry, Peer Mentor in Freshman Success Community
*Kris Grymonpre, 8th Grade Science Teacher, Dever-McCormack K-8 School, Boston Public Schools
*Additional support ($500) for the teacher and school is provided by the American Chemical Society’s Science Coaches Program (www.acs.org/sciencecoaches)
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*Project Goals
Goals for Fall 2013
*Establish a mutually beneficial yearlong partnership with a school in Boston, and develop collaborative relationship with at least one science teacher in the school
*Foster investment by freshman seminar students in community activity to help kids learn chemistry
*Identify engaging ways to involve freshman seminar students in learning about relationships between effective teaching and productive learning of science and chemistry
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My Current Ideas on Learning Outcomes for this Course
*Students can identify elements of good science teaching and relationships to their own productive learning
*Students pay attention to strategic approaches to practicing chemistry
*Students are aware of the principal pursuits of the discipline of chemistry and recognize relationships between what they are learning and those pursuits
*Students see chemistry as having social, political, economic and political benefits and costs, and develop personal identity within the discipline of chemistry that includes this core idea
*Possible Learning Outcomes
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*What I want from CESI
My Hopes for these Workshops
*Get to know colleagues at UMass Boston with similar values/interests and develop a support network
*Learn about private/foundation funding opportunities for school-community partnership science-focused projects