At BCCE 2018, we invite you to consider attending workshops presenting scale-themed materials and how these were incorporated into various courses. Because these projects are supported by NSF (DUE-1432090), we also have limited travel funds for which we would invite you or your colleagues to apply. Both workshops will be held on Wednesday, August 1st (the details are listed below). To apply for travel funds, please send an application to Kristen Murphy (kmurphy@uwm.edu) including:
1. Your name, affiliation and title;
2. What courses you regularly teach;
3. Which workshop(s) you plan on attending;
4. What you hope to gain from attending the workshop(s) and how this may change your approach to incorporating scale into instruction; and
5. How the travel funds would aid in your ability to attend BCCE 2018.
Priority will be given to applications received on or before June 15, 2018. Travels funds will be limited to a maximum of $500 per participant. For more information, please email Kristen Murphy (kmurphy@uwm.edu).
Workshop details:
WWA107: Scale-themed instructional materials for lecture and laboratory
Session: Wednesday, August 1, 8:00-11:00 am
Workshop Description: According the AAAS and the NRC, an important component of a student’s science literacy is scale and concepts relating to scale. Scale, or the skills related to understanding quantity within chemistry concepts, has long been an area of interest within our research. However, our focus is not just on developing scale themed interventions to aid in teaching general chemistry students these important skills, but rather students across all scientific disciplines. We have created an extensive suite of scale-themed instructional materials that can easily be incorporated into any general chemistry course, and easily adapted to fit other science disciplines. At this workshop, we will introduce and describe the activities and instructional materials that we have incorporated into our curriculum, and provide selected resources for educators who wish to incorporate our activities into their own courses. Limited travel support is available and interested participants seeking funds should contact the workshop organizer directly.
WWP116: Scale interventions: Their adaptation into a class and measuring their effect
Session: Wednesday, August 1, 2:00-5:00 pm
Workshop Description: According to the AAAS and the NRC, an important component of a student’s science literacy is scale and concepts relating to scale. Scale, or the skills related to understanding quantity within chemistry concepts, has long been an area of interest within this work, however, we have recently begun to expand this research into other science disciplines. Through the use of well-developed assessments and research methods in general chemistry, the extension of this work into an introductory Anatomy & Physiology course has not only reinforced the importance understanding scale has in understanding science, but has also demonstrated the profound deficiency in scale skills that exists in introductory college science students. This workshop will focus on confronting the challenges that arise when assessments and instruction developed in one discipline are applied in a new setting and how materials of this type can be used by faculty to research their students. Additionally, selected resources will be supplied to educators who wish to incorporate any of the described measures into their own courses. Limited travel support is available and interested participants seeking funds should contact the workshop organizer directly.
These materials and workshops are based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. (DUE-1140610 and DUE-1432090). Any opinion, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in these materials and workshops are those of the authors(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Kristen Murphy
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
CHM 101
3210 N. Cramer St.
Milwaukee, WI 53211
V: 414-229-4468
F: 414-229-5866
Email: kmurphy@uwm.edu