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Chemistry Everyday for Everyone
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ChemKits: A Teacher-Training and Instrument-Sharing Project
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Mike Mitchell
Vice President and Academic Dean, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS 67456
David Shubert
Department of Chemistry, Newman University, Wichita, KS 67231
Carolyn Herman
formerly at Department of Chemistry, Southwestern College, Winfield, KS 67156-2499
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October 1999
Vol. 76 No. 10
p. 1409
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Project ChemKits, a Kansas high school teacher-training and instrument-sharing project, has completed its third and final year of teacher training. ChemKits use graphing calculators and probes as data collection and processing devices for high school chemistry classes. The equipment is small, rugged, inexpensive, and easily transported by mail between participating high schools. Teachers attended four-week workshops on instrument use at a selected group of four colleges. They modified favorite experiments from the literature for ChemKit use in their own classroom. Each high school has the ChemKits about three weeks per year. Eight student stations (about three students each) are provided. The colleges operated the workshops and now provide administrative services such as repair and replacement of equipment, organization of the sharing of ChemKits, and advice on instrument use. Nearly 100 high school teachers have participated at ChemKits workshops. Initial external funding from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation purchased the ChemKits equipment. The National Science Foundation funded the workshops. Project ChemKits is expected to continue its sharing operation for several years without additional outside funding, since participating high schools pay a small fee toward repair and replacement of damaged equipment.
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Mitchell, Mike; Shubert, David; Herman, Carolyn. J. Chem. Educ. 1999 76 1409.
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Instrumental Methods; Introductory / High School Chemistry; Laboratory Equipment / Apparatus; Teaching / Learning Aids
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June 23, 2005
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