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Interested in increasing your chemistry content knowledge, but not interested in a full 10-course degree program?
For the first time, the University of Pennsylvania’s Master of Chemistry Education Program is making available, to qualified high school science teachers, individual courses from among its 5 summer course offerings.
Each course is specially designed with high school teaching in mind. Because the content pushes you beyond what is typically taught in high school, you will be better prepared to answer questions and engage your students in inquiry learning. The courses model inquiry teaching/learning, forcing you to experience, through your own study, the power of such pedagogy.
- Chem 501: General and Organic Chemistry
The goal of this course is to provide participants with a sound background in the structures and physical and chemical properties of organic compounds using an inquiry-based instructional model which they can implement in their own classrooms.
- Chem 502: Information Technology and Experimental Chemistry (must be taken concurrently with Chem 501)
The goals of this course are to develop skills in information technology and experimental chemistry which enable participants to introduce meaningful reforms in their own curricula. Specific objectives include developing and maintaining their personal web page, finding chemical and other scientific informationefficiently on the internet, using some modern computational programs employed by active research chemists and carrying out a representative set of laboratory experiments connected to the content in Chem 501.
- Chem 504: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
This course focuses on proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, and carbohydrates because these classes of compounds and how they relate to one another through information transfer are most likely to be the topics of discussion in high school classrooms. Here’s your opportunity to learn to make connections between the Biology course your students have had and the Chemistry course you are teaching.
- Chem 505: Environmental Chemistry
The course will provide an in-depth look at environmental issues impacted both negatively and positively by chemistry. This will include the chemistry of "pollutants" in air, water, and soil; their transport and fate in the environment; how they are detected and analyzed, and methods of remediation. Because environmental chemistry is a quantitative science where we convert qualitative observations and ideas into numerical expressions, statistical analysis is used to develop quantitative models of complex systems. While instruction on statistics is included in the course, this course is not for the math-phobic student!
- Chem 506: Inorganic Chemistry
This course is the study of the periodic table which embodies the trends and properties of all elements and is based on atomic structure and chemical bonding. A major course goal is the attainment of the ability to mentally visualize molecules and chemical reactions, and to be able to communicate these 3-dimensional concepts using 2-dimensional media (paper, chalkboard, etc.) at the three levels of representation (macroscopic, microscopic and symbolic).
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Application - download/view here
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**Deadline for application is May 15
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