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

技术摘要：“日常事物的聚合物科学”是一个激动人心的多方面的K-12研讨会和研讨会，将于2009年8月16日至20日在华盛顿特区举行的全国美国化学学会会议上举行。研讨会的目标是以独特和强大的形式为K-12科学教师提供信息和教学工具。研讨会是协同计划的，以包括K12教师的参与和指导，并解释如何？日常事务？依赖于聚合物科学的无处不在。为了实现这些目标，采用了多种功能的组合。(1)特别关注的是？聚合物在全球能源和交通运输中的影响？研讨会-研讨会的主题集中在聚合物的特殊和广泛的性质如何导致在交通运输，节能，电池和太阳能电池的使用。(2)讲习班由三个两人小组组成，包括一名专题讨论会演讲者/专家和一名聚合物大使，后者是一名受过聚合物科学专门培训的高中教师(教师教师)。三个科学家/聚合物大使团队一起为K-12教师研讨会开发了三个综合演示文稿。(3)研讨会的主题是汽车涂料、汽车纳米复合材料和飞机用聚合物。研讨会的主题将提供？平台？将影响K-12教育的教学模块或实践工具包组合在一起。非技术综述：聚合物还是塑料？用于日常生活的许多方面。“日常生活中的聚合物科学”主要是一个教育活动，由一个为K-12教师举办的研讨会和一个科学研讨会组成，该研讨会扩展了研讨会中提出的主题。它将于2009年8月16日至20日在华盛顿特区举行的美国国家化学学会(ACS)会议上举行。为了最大限度地增加K-12教师的参与，研讨会是与化学教育高中日的美国化学教育协会部门一起计划的。研讨会的组织是为了实现制造商、科学家和教师之间的信息传递，以便向K-12教师提供关于及时的科学发展的教育，这些发展导致了广泛使用的产品。研讨会的重点是以独特和强大的形式向K-12科学教师提供信息和教学工具，解释聚合物在全球能源和交通中的影响。研讨会？产品？计划，即一个可以在K-12科学教学中使用的教学工具包。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可能对科学感兴趣的学生。结果。

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.