The kid are back in school from a long holiday break. Do you know how your children are doing in school? This time of year is a great time for you to check in with your child(ren) and their teachers to see where they are as far in their grades and what they are learning in all subjects, but especially math and science. If they are doing well, it is a great time to encourage them to continue to great job. Find fun ways over the holidays and every day to keep the excited, engaged and learning math and science. Whether it is finding online games, visiting your local science museums or engaging in math and science related events in your community. If they are not doing well, it is plenty of time for them to recover and do well the rest of the year. Find out from them the areas in which they are struggling and make time for them to review the concepts with you. In addition, find educational support for them to ensure they are able to get the concepts whether it is teaching them study skills, finding tutorial support with online homework help or tutorial support, or finding hands on activities to help them grasp the concepts. Whatever, it is don't let your child continue to struggle in math and science when it is plenty of time to recover and do well.
In addition, to ensuring that your child is doing well with coursework, it is important that you prepare them for standardized test. Testing season is around the corner, it is important that you get involved in your child's standardized test preparation because unfortunately the educational climate is one where we are teaching to the test instead of encouraging lifelong learning. So if you want your child to learn the concepts beyond the test, you must be involved in their test preparation. The school can provide you with old test or practice test and some states even have the content for standardized test on the department of education's website. Not only ensure that your child understand the concepts on the test, but practice with them in testing conditions. Many children don't do well on standardized test not because they don't know the material, because they haven't mastered finishing questions in a certain time frame.
Our children won't have the ability to pursue STEM careers if they aren't academically prepared to do so. So let's do what we can to ensure that our children are achieving and excelling academically in math and science. We can't rely on the schools alone to educate our children. Learning must take place inside and outside of the classroom.
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Whoo Hoo It is the 2010 National Chemistry Week
This week, October 17-23,2010, is National Chemistry Week,which as science educator is one of my favorite times of the year, along with National Engineers Week in February. Now these two STEM themed weeks, may be my favorite because I have a degree in chemical engineering. However, I realize that these weeks bring attention to two career paths that aren't pursued not because kids are intellectually capable but aren't exposed to these career paths enough. I also think people don't realize how much chemistry is connected to their everyday lives. Almost everything we do and most of the technological advances that improve our quality of life or entertain us are based on chemistry. One of my favorite entrepreneurs Madame CJ Walker,became a millionaire from a real-world application of chemistry, making hair care products.
National Chemistry Week (NCW) is a community-based annual event that unites American Chemical Society (ACS) local sections, businesses, schools, and individuals in communicating the importance of chemistry to our quality of life ( for more information check out this website http://bit.ly/d1WGTd). Although this event is a program of the American Chemical Society, there are many scientific professional societies and STEM educational organizations and schools that host national chemistry week events. Every year since its inception, SEM Link has celebrated National Chemistry Week by engaging K-12 students in hands on activities in chemistry and career exploration in these fields. We were able to do this through partnerships with our local section of American Chemical Society and volunteers that were chemical professionals or graduate or undergraduate students.
The 2010 National Chemistry week is exciting because we are hosting celebrations on both coasts. In Metropolitan Atlanta, we are partnering with Georgia Institute of Technology to visit local middle schools to engage kids in hands on chemistry activities and provide role models for these students. We are excited to provide these students an opportunity to meet and interact with undergraduate and graduate students that can serve as role models for those kids that are interested in science. In Oakland, we are hosting a National Chemistry Week Celebration with our San Francisco Bay Area community partner the ASA Community Science Center. This event is extra special because it is a satellite event of the USA Science & Engineering Festival. The festival, which is in its inaugural year, is a national celebration of Science engineering that takes place October 10-23, 2010. At the Oakland event, which is free and open to the public, we are going to expose kids to chemistry through hands on activities.
National Chemistry Week is another opportunity for us to do what we do as an organization "unveil potential through exposure"
National Chemistry Week (NCW) is a community-based annual event that unites American Chemical Society (ACS) local sections, businesses, schools, and individuals in communicating the importance of chemistry to our quality of life ( for more information check out this website http://bit.ly/d1WGTd). Although this event is a program of the American Chemical Society, there are many scientific professional societies and STEM educational organizations and schools that host national chemistry week events. Every year since its inception, SEM Link has celebrated National Chemistry Week by engaging K-12 students in hands on activities in chemistry and career exploration in these fields. We were able to do this through partnerships with our local section of American Chemical Society and volunteers that were chemical professionals or graduate or undergraduate students.
The 2010 National Chemistry week is exciting because we are hosting celebrations on both coasts. In Metropolitan Atlanta, we are partnering with Georgia Institute of Technology to visit local middle schools to engage kids in hands on chemistry activities and provide role models for these students. We are excited to provide these students an opportunity to meet and interact with undergraduate and graduate students that can serve as role models for those kids that are interested in science. In Oakland, we are hosting a National Chemistry Week Celebration with our San Francisco Bay Area community partner the ASA Community Science Center. This event is extra special because it is a satellite event of the USA Science & Engineering Festival. The festival, which is in its inaugural year, is a national celebration of Science engineering that takes place October 10-23, 2010. At the Oakland event, which is free and open to the public, we are going to expose kids to chemistry through hands on activities.
National Chemistry Week is another opportunity for us to do what we do as an organization "unveil potential through exposure"
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- SEM Link
- Science, Engineering and Mathematics Link, Inc. (SEM Link), a tax-exempt nonprofit organization, was founded in 2004 on the premise that exposure to members of the science, engineering and mathematics (SEM) communities is critical to student development in math and science. Our mission is to promote student achievement and career exploration in math and science while increasing student exposure to the science, engineering and mathematics communities and enhancing resources that are available at local schools and community organizations. Our two core programs, Math and Science Career Academy and Experimental Design Program, provide students with an opportunity to develop their math and science skills by enhancing the classroom learning experience and teaching them skills that are transferable to other areas of life. We recruit students and professionals for our programs that have backgrounds in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.