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From: Patricia Redden <predden**At_Symbol_Here**SAINTPETERS.EDU>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] [EXT] Re: [DCHAS-L] Letter to the National PTA regarding the rainbow flame demo
Date: Oct 3, 2019 12:33 UTC
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ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety
In-Reply-To: Re: [DCHAS-L] [EXT] Re: [DCHAS-L] Letter to the National PTA regarding the rainbow flame demo
Debbie and Sammye -- never forget that the exact same chemicals are used in art and theater: solvents, acids, bases, metals, minerals, organic substances such as wood and dyes, and more. Performance art and theater special effects are big now which you can translate into demonstrations of chemical reactions. These reactions may not involve people not just watching, but people enveloped in the chemicals.. So what you teach is applicable to almost all teachers.
Monona
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From: Samuella Sigmann <sigmannsb**At_Symbol_Here**APPSTATE.EDU>
To: DCHAS-L <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU>
Sent: Thu, Oct 3, 2019 7:40 am
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] [EXT] Re: [DCHAS-L] Letter to the National PTA regarding the rainbow flame demo
Try to get into the pre-service teacher methods class. The folks in the our College of Ed have been really welcoming to me, but the Profs who teach that class have recognized how large the hole is for science teacher education and want to help get the word out.
Baby steps it is....
S-
On 10/2/2019 7:34 PM, Debbie M. Decker wrote:
I presented safety training to high school science teachers last week and I meet with middle school science teachers next week. I kinda threw everything but the kitchen sink at them and hope some of it sticks. They have had minimal to no safety training and certainly none in their credential programs. Hopefully, I'll be invited back. <heh> My next windmill - the school of education, next door to my building.I feel like it's baby steps but it's a step.Debbie