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Lets Celebrate
National Chemistry Week
Mole Day
Einsteins Birthday
Amusement Park Physics Day
2008 ASTA Fall Conference Workshop Presented by
Candace Golliver and Doreen Brisendine UNA
AMSTI-ASIM Specialists
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Lets Celebrate
Mole Day
National Chemistry Week,
Einsteins Birthday
Amusement Park Physics Day
Guess the number of moles of sodium chloride
in the container (rounded to the nearest whole
) One entry per person please
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Celebrating National Chemistry Week Having a
Ball with Chemistry
October 19-25, 2008
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Celebrating National Chemistry Week Having a
Ball with Chemistry
Ideas from the Journal of Chemical Education,
Vol.85, No.10, October 2008

• Chemistry in Sports
• Endurance athletes, hemoglobin levels, NO levels,
  steroid detection (p.1310)
• Indy Car Racing (p.1316)
• Golf chemical make-up of a golf ball and club
  (p.1319)
• Polymers used in artificial turf (p.1323)
• Polymers used in protective headgear (p.1326)
• Polymers in sports safety equipment (properties
  of different types of sports balls)
• Sports Nutrition
• Sports in Chemistry
• Using games and puzzles in chemistry class to
  promote interest and healthy academic competition
  (fielding average avg of weekly lab grades
  batting average quiz/test avg homerun 100
  quiz/test score, etc)
• Relate the sport of running to chemical kinetics
  (p.1314-1315)
• See who can make the best bouncy ball in the lab

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Celebrating National Chemistry Week Mole
DayOctober 23

• Mole Day Videos on You Tube
• Happy Mole Day to You Song http//www.youtube.co
  m/watch?vReMe348Im2w
• A Mole is a Unit http//www.youtube.com/watch?v1R
  7NiIum2TI
• Mole Song http//www.youtube.com/watch?vbjewZs_oA
  vA
• M-O-L-E Song Video http//www.youtube.com/watch?v
  S2kgY6xlZCo

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Past Themes from the National Mole Day
Foundation, Inc. www.moleday.org

• 1991- The MOLE, the Merrier

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Past Themes from the National Mole Day
Foundation, Inc. www.moleday.org

• 1992- Go for the MOLE

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Past Themes from the National Mole Day
Foundation, Inc. www.moleday.org

• 1993- Mole Out the Barrel

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Past Themes from the National Mole Day
Foundation, Inc. www.moleday.org

• 1994- An Ace in the MOLE

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Past Themes from the National Mole Day
Foundation, Inc. www.moleday.org

• 1995- Moledi Gras

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Past Themes from the National Mole Day
Foundation, Inc. www.moleday.org

• 1996- Molemorial Day

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Past Themes from the National Mole Day
Foundation, Inc. www.moleday.org

• 1997- We Dig Chemistry

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Past Themes from the National Mole Day
Foundation, Inc. www.moleday.org

• 1998- Ride the Molercoaster

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Past Themes from the National Mole Day
Foundation, Inc. www.moleday.org

• 1999- Its A MOLE World

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Past Themes from the National Mole Day
Foundation, Inc. www.moleday.org

• 2000- Celebrate the Molennium

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Past Themes from the National Mole Day
Foundation, Inc. www.moleday.org

• 2001- Molar Odyssey

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Past Themes from the National Mole Day
Foundation, Inc. www.moleday.org

• 2002- Molar Reflections

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Past Themes from the National Mole Day
Foundation, Inc. www.moleday.org

• 2003- ROCK N MOLE

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Past Themes from the National Mole Day
Foundation, Inc. www.moleday.org

• 2004- Pi a la MOLE

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Past Themes from the National Mole Day
Foundation, Inc. www.moleday.org

• 2005- Moles-Go-Round

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Past Themes from the National Mole Day
Foundation, Inc. www.moleday.org

• 2006- Mole Madness

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Past Themes from NMDF, Inc. www.moleday.org

• 2007- Double Theme

Last years shirt design
and
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2008 Mole Day Theme from the National Mole Day
Foundation, Inc. www.moleday.org

• Mole of Fortune

This years shirt design
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Mole Day Ideas from the NMDF, Inc.
www.moleday.org

• Molympics (Pin the Nose on the Mole, Mole Toss,
  6.02 Relay, etc.)
• Mole-opoly
• Create a "Moletin Board"
• Host a Mole Pun Contest
• Write a Mole Day song
• Make Mole Day "campaign signs
• Exchange Mole Day greeting cards
• Mole costume party
• Decorate with Mole-biles
• Notify local media of your Mole Day festivities
  (TV, newspaper, radio)
• Scavenger Hunt Ex.-Something that contains
  NaHCO3
• Write a Mole Day poem, story, or cartoon 
• Make a Mole Day flag
• Make a mole pinata or a stuffed mole
• Ten Commolements
• Make Mole Day treats Moleasses cookies, Avogadro
  Dip, or Taco-mole sauce

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Mole Day Ideas from the Normal Community High
School http//www.unit5.org/christjs/555_topic_in
dex_links_mole.htm

• Beauty Contest vote with pennies for favorite
  (most creative mole)
• Mole-yattas filled with tootsie moles
• Pin the face (Avogadro) on the mole (Pin the tail
  on the donkey)
• Best mole day jokes / puns contest
• Moller coaster
• Mole-n-One Golf
• Bozos circus (mole toss) in buckets for prizes
• Shoot the mole across the room for distance
• Class Picture Everyone with Avogadro masks on
• Decorate lockers in the school with Avogadro
  wallpaper
• Mole day streamers (Avogadros face) around room
• Have students make a Mole Day brochure
• Jello eating contest (how much moleasses
  flavored) jello can you eat in 22.4 seconds.
  Recall 1 mole 22.4 Liters

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Still More Mole Day Ideas

• Meet for breakfast at 602 am.
• Sew-a-Mole (pattern from www.moleday.org with
  membership)
• Mole (Car) Races
• Go on a local TV/radio station morning show at
  602 am and talk about Mole Day. (or call radio
  station)
• School Contest Guess how many moles of sodium
  chloride are in a large container displayed for
  all to see.
• Get local businesses to donate prizes for contest
  winners.
• Design sale Mole Day shirts.
• Chemistry Show after school with lots of cool
  demonstrations.
• Mole Day Videos (Post on You Tube?)
• Mole Day Songs (prerecorded or live)
• Require students to tell two others about the
  Mole Concept.
• Post signs around school explaining the Mole
  Concept.

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Other Mole Day Ideas

• Put Mole Day on the school calendar
• Hand out and wear Mole Day signs/badges.
• Academic Mole Competitions Balancing equations,
  gram-to-mole/mole-to-mole/mole-to-gram/gram-to-gra
  m conversions, molar concentrations, etc.
• Drink 1 mol of H2O (18 g or 0.63oz) of water at
  602am. (taken from http//www.mbbc.us/science/mol
  e_day.htm)
• Make Mole-Decorated Cakes
• Have a Mole Day door decorating contest
• Have a contest to see who can make the best mole
  out of a mole of aluminum foil
• Have students make a display of various
  substances that each contain one mole (such as a
  container with one mole of table salt)

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Mole Day Ideas from the NMDF, Inc.
ww.moleday.org

• Ten Commolementsby Tom Knickerbocker and Kenny
  QuickPrairie du Chien High School 1991Prairie
  du Chien, WI
• Thou shalt not use 6.02 x 1023 in vain.
• Thou shalt not use the term mole if thou has no
  true knowledge of the term mole.
• Thou shalt not kill a mole.
• Thou shalt not covet your neighbor's mole.
• Thou shall always remember to celebrate Mole Day.
  
• Thou shalt not disparage Mole Day.
• Thou shalt not use a mole out of season.
• Thou shall always honor the one who introduced
  thou to Mole Day.
• You shall always keep sacred 10/23.
• Thou shall always remember these commolments or
  thou will never properly celebrate Mole Day.  

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Examples of Signs to Post

• MOLE
• DAY
• IS COMING!!!

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Examples of Signs to Post

• Definition of MOLE
• Avogadros Number
• 6.02 x 1023 particles
• A counting unit used in chemistry
• There are 12 eggs in a dozen eggs. There are
  6.02 x 1023 eggs in a mole of eggs. Thats a lot
  of eggs!!
• Happy Mole Day October 23rd

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Examples of Signs to Post
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Sample Shirts
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Sample Shirts
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Websites for Free NCW Ideas/Activities

• National Mole Day Foundation, Inc.,
  www.moleday.org
• American Chemical Society, www.chemistry.org
• Click on Education Under Community Outreach,
  click on National Chemistry Week
• Flinn Scientific, www.flinnsci.com
• There should be a link for Celebrate Mole Day
  under Latest News from Flinn.
• If not, www.flinnsci.com/news.asp?fromnewsid18
  will take you to the site where you can find a
  list of ideas from teachers across the U.S.

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Websites for NCW Items to Purchase

• American Chemical Society, www.chemistry.org
• Click on ACS Store ACS members get a discount
• Shirts, balloons, tattoos, stickers, mole plush
  dolls, periodic table wallet cards, and much
  more!
• National Mole Day Foundation, Inc.,
  www.moleday.org
• Lapel pins, ornaments, postcards, shirts
• Membership for Mole Day kit
• Flinn Scientific, www.flinnsci.com
• Mole Dollars (AP6564) (2007 Catalog- 4.95/Pkg.
  of 50)
• Mole Toons (AP8582) (2007 Catalog- 16.60)
• Stoichiometry Balloon Races Chemical
  Demonstration Kit (AP6444), (2007 Catalog-
  26.35)
• Micro Mole Rockets Hydrogen and Oxygen Mole
  Ratio (AP6374), (2007 Catalog- 28.95)

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Celebrate Einsteins Birthday!

• Why let the chemists have all the fun?
• March 14Th Einsteins Birthday
• - Same day as Pi day!!
• Physics is applied math, so lets ALL have some
  fun!

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Let your imagination guide you!

• Pi contest decorate a pie
• Birthday cake contest decorate cakes with an
  Einstein theme
• Costume contest Dress like Einstein to honor
  him on his birthday!
• Create a toy contest design and build a working
  model toy based on Physics concepts.

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More Ideas

• Steal from Mole day!
• Pin the tongue on the Einstein poster.
• Create an Einstein board game
• Egg Drop Contest
• Einstein art contest
• Research paper on Einstein http//www.aip.org/hist
  ory/einstein/
• http//www.alberteinstein.info/

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Create your own Einstein Photohttp//www.hetemeel
.com/einsteinform.php
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Web-sites for more Einstein Activities

• Celebrate Einstein's Birthday An Internet
  Hotlist on Einstein's Birthday created by E.
  Holsenbeckhttp//www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/l
  isteinsteineh.html
• Interact -A selection of interactive websites and
  games that show a different side of physics.
• http//www.physics.org/interact.asp

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Six Flags Over GeorgiaMath Science Day
Workbookhttp//www.sixflags.com/overGeorgia/asset
s/pdf/MiddleSchoolWorkbook.pdf
Collect data and make calculations for
Superman
Georgia Scorcher
Scream Machine
Ninja
Great American
Math Science Days are usually held in April
Log Flume
Cyclone
Plus the Free Fall and Looping Starship
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Alabama Adventurein Bessemer, Alabamahttp//www.
alabamaadventure.com
2009 Cool School Days are scheduled for Thursday,
April 30 Friday, May 1 Thursday, May 7 Friday,
May 8 Thursday, May 14 Friday, May 15
In the handouts at the ASTA website are the
registration form and workbook (grades K-8). AL
Adventure is planning to have a workbook for
grades 9-12 this year.
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Any other suggestions?
NaCl Contest Winner
Thank you for attending.