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Department of Chemistry
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 Alison Dewald used egg shells and sea shells to demonstrate to the students what happens to calcium when a weak acid mixture is applied. |
 Dressed as King Neptune, John Lowe, professor of chemistry, uses a bar of lead to illustrate buoyancy differences among various objects. |
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 Dana Easton uses Louie the Lobster to give the students a hands-on lesson about crustaceans. |
Three faculty members and nearly a dozen graduate students from the Department of Chemistry recently took a trip to Matternville Elementary School near the University Park campus for a voyage "Under the Sea" with a group of second-grade students. The graduate students and faculty members -- Jackie Bortyiatynski, instructor of chemistry, John Lowe, professor of chemistry, and Bob Minard, professor of chemistry -- planned activities to complement the second graders' recently completed unit titled "Under the Sea." The department's presentation, which featured small-group activities with students in groups of four and included numerous interactive activities, was designed by doctoral student Andrew Greenberg. Elementary students participating in this program were from the rooms of teachers Bonnie Abrahms and Linda Witmer. |
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This was the second time this semester the chemists have presented a supplemental activity to a group of elementary students in the State College Area School District. In February, members of the department visited third graders at Park Forest Elementary School and conducted a session during which the students acted as chemical detectives. |
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 Andrew Greenberg shows students how light moves through water. Greenberg, a doctoral student, designed the interactive demonstration for the Department of Chemistry. |