Arkansas Department of Higher Education Eisenhower Professional Development Program, Prentice Hall, Cabot Junior High School North, Arkansas State University Mountain Home. Small-Scale Chemistry is a proven technique that reduces costs of chemistry instruction by using small amounts of chemicals, resulting in lower costs for chemicals, reduced waste generation, and safer laboratories. A large number of experiments use inexpensive high-tech plasticware that eliminates glassware breakage and accidents. Small-scale provides a new way to teach creative problem solving, the processes of invention and discovery, analytical thinking, effective writing, and the elements of descriptive chemistry. Workshop participants will learn small-scale chemistry by doing experiments themselves.
Participants are responsible for their own lodging.
Dr. Stephen Thompson created the concepts and techniques of Small-Scale. After receiving his bachelor s degree in chemistry and doctorate in analytical chemistry from the University of Birmingham in England, he joined the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University in 1971. Mina Shaughnessy Scholar Award. His research interests include environmental and atmospheric deposition, anthocyanin chemistry and chaos systems. He received his B.S. in chemistry from Montana State University and M.S. in chemistry from Colorado State University.