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CHEMISTRY 2nd Quarter Project:

Chemistry Issues In-The-News

Background: We’ve spent almost five months studying chemistry mainly through textbooks and notes in class. It’s really easy to get caught up in the class work in chemistry and not recognize the impact chemistry has on the world around us. We are surrounded by chemistry and chemical reactions. Knowing chemistry enables us to more fully understand what is being said as well as allows us to form our opinions and not need somebody else telling us what to do or what to think. By completing this assignment you will discover how the language/vocabulary and depth changes between the different types of sources available. Also, I hope you will receive a better understanding on how chemistry impacts our lives every day.

The Project: Find one current article with strong connections to chemistry (important part of grade) from each of the following source categories. Complete and upload one data sheet for each of the articles (total of three articles) to your wikispace.

Category 1: Science Journals (Examples include: Scientific American, Journal of Chemical Education, ChemMatters, Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical and Engineering News) These are the most technical journals. (Article needs to be dated within the last five years)

Category 2: General Science Sources (Discover, Nature, Science News, Science Digest, National Geographic) These have less technical detail and are more general. (Article needs to be dated within the last 3 years)

Category 3: General Sources (Time, Newsweek, local papers, etc) These are very general in nature and have little technical information. They give a general overview of the topic. (Article needs to be dated within the last 6 months)

Instructions on how to upload data sheets to your wikispace:

DATA SHEET FOR PROJECT:

On-Line Databases from the T-G library(you will need the user name and password that was given in class to access these databases from home) Use either Proquest or the EBSCO databases.

[|T-G Subscription Databases]

Other places to find articles are the actual websites of the periodicals and do the searches there.

PROJECT DUE DATE: January 9, 2009 at 2pm (I will lock the wikispaces at that time, so you won’t be able to upload any files after that time)

Project Rubric:

CLASS WIKISPACES:

Chemistry Fall 2008