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You Be The Chemist Essential Elements Workshop at University of Notre Dame

About Essential Elements

The You Be The Chemist Essential Elements professional development workshops build educator confidence to teach hands-on science to students in grades K through 8. Furthermore, the workshops build connections among educators and chemistry professionals in communities to enhance instruction and elevate students’ career interests. To learn more, click here.

All workshop participants receive a customized CEF Periodic Table poster, and access to the You Be The Chemist Activity Guides – plus other giveaways!


Workshop Information:

The University of Notre Dame Graduate Student Organization, the Chemical Educational Foundation and the Dow Chemical Company are offering a Essential Elements Professional Development Workshop for K-8 educators in and around South Bend Indiana on Saturday, March 17, 2018 from 9 AM to Noon. The workshop will be in room 302 of Jordan Hall on the University of Notre Dame campus.

CEF’s You Be The Chemist Essential Elements℠ program is a professional development workshop designed to provide K–8 educators—our “essential elements” in education—with methods for teaching chemistry concepts through hands-on learning and real-world connections.

Essential Elements is based on the 5E learning cycle approach to teaching, which is based in the theory of constructivism. Through this cycle, students build their own understanding of new concepts from both prior and new experiences. Each part of the cycle describes a phase of learning: engage, explore, explain, elaborate, and evaluate. During an Essential Elements workshop, the instructor will lead educators through a full 5E learning cycle utilizing a lesson from the Activity Guides. Educators then get a chance to collaborate and plan their own 5E lesson from additional Activity Guide lessons.

There is no charge to participate in this workshop and educators who complete the workshop will receive a certificate for 3 hours of Continuing Education Credit from CEF.

We are sorry but registration for this worshop is now closed.

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If you already attended an Essential Elements workshop you can find some great Educator Resources here.