The Polymer Science of Everyday Things, August 2009, Washington, D.C.

技术总结：“日常事物的聚合物科学”是一个令人兴奋的多层面K-12研讨会和研讨会，将于2009年8月16日至20日在华盛顿举行的美国化学学会会议上举行。研讨会的目标是为K-12科学教师提供独特而有力的信息和教学工具。研讨会是协同计划，包括K - 12教师的参与和指导，并解释如何？日常用品吗?依赖于聚合物科学的普及。为了实现这些目标，采用了多种特性的组合。(1)特别关注的是？聚合物对全球能源和交通的影响？研讨会的主题集中在聚合物的特殊和广泛的特性如何导致在运输，节能，电池和太阳能电池中的应用。(2)研讨会由三名两人组成，包括一名研讨会发言人/专家和一名聚合物大使，该大使是一名受过聚合物科学专门培训的高中教师(？老师教老师？)这三个科学家/聚合物大使团队共同为K-12教师研讨会编写了三份综合报告。(3)本次研讨会的主题为汽车涂料、汽车纳米复合材料和飞机上使用的聚合物。把影响K-12教育的教学模块或动手工具包放在一起。非技术概要：聚合物还是塑料？的许多方面？日常生活?。“日常事物的聚合物科学”主要是一个教育活动，包括一个为K-12教师举办的研讨会，以及一个扩展研讨会上提出的主题的科学研讨会。它将于2009年8月16-20日在华盛顿举行的美国化学学会（ACS）会议上举行。为了最大限度地提高K-12教师的参与度，研讨会计划与ACS化学教育部高中日一起进行。举办研讨会是为了促进制造商、科学家和教师之间的信息交流，以便向K-12教师提供有关及时的科学发展的教育，这些发展导致了流行的产品。研讨会的重点是为K-12科学教师提供信息和教学工具，以独特和强大的格式，将解释？聚合物对全球能源和交通的影响？车间？产品？，也就是说，一套可以用于K-12科学教学的教学工具包。研讨会具有乘数效应，因为向预期的70名高中教师提供的信息和教学工具将反过来影响数千名学生。对科学感兴趣？因此。

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:"The Polymer Science of Everyday Things" is an exciting multifaceted K-12 Workshop and Symposium to be held at the National American Chemical Society Meeting, Washington, DC, 16-20 August, 2009. The Workshop-Symposium has the goal of providing K-12 science teachers with information and instructional tools in a unique and powerful format. The Workshop-Symposium is synergistically planned to incorporate K 12 teacher participation and instruction and to explain how ?everyday things? depend on polymer science for their ubiquity. To achieve these goals a combination of features are employed. (1) The special focus is ?Impact of Polymers in Global Energy and Transportation?. Workshop-Symposium topics are focused on how the special and wide ranging properties of polymers lead to use in transportation, energy conservation, batteries, and solar cells. (2) For the Workshop, three two person teams are formed consisting of a Symposium speaker / expert and a Polymer Ambassador, who is a high school teacher specially trained in polymer science (?teachers teaching teachers?). Together, the three scientist/polymer ambassador teams develop three integrated presentations for the K-12 teacher Workshop. (3) The topics selected for the Workshop are automobile paints, automobile nanocomposites, and polymers used in airplanes The Workshop topics will afford ?platforms? to put together teaching modules or hands-on kits that impact K-12 education. NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY:Polymers or ?plastics? are used in many facets of ?everyday life?. "The Polymer Science of Everyday Things" is primarily an educational event comprised of a Workshop for K-12 teachers coupled with a scientific Symposium expanding on the topics presented in the Workshop. It will be held at the National American Chemical Society (ACS) Meeting in Washington, DC, 16-20 August, 2009. To maximize K-12 teacher participation, the Workshop-Symposium is planned in conjunction with the ACS Division of Chemical Education High School Day. The Workshop-Symposium is organized to effect information transfer between manufacturers, scientists, and teachers so as to provide K-12 teacher education about timely scientific developments that led to popularly-used products. The Workshop-Symposium focuses on providing K-12 science teachers with information and instructional tools in a unique and powerful format that will explain the ?Impact of Polymers in Global Energy and Transportation?. A Workshop ?product? is planned, that is, an instructional kit that can be used in K-12 science instruction. The Workshop-Symposium carries a multiplier effect as the information and instructional tools provided to the expected 70 high school teachers will in turn influence thousands of students who may be ?turned on to science? as a result.