2001 Annual Grant Issue
Nabil Haddad: Kast Grant Report
Chemistry Education Conference

During the period - July 29 through August 2, 2001, I attended the Chem. Ed. Conference in Toronto, Canada.

The conference offered a significant number of lectures several of which I found interesting and informative. Particularly enjoyable was the lecture by Dough De La Matter partly because of the several informative and useful demonstrations that he skillfully performed. Several workshops were also offered of which I attended the one on magnetism.

A large variety of demonstrations were performed, some new and some not but with a new twist. I chose to attend the following titles from the lecture-demos:

• Chemistry of fireworks
• Web chemistry, using the Internet in teaching
• Easy to prepare demos illustrating major chemistry topics.
• Demos by the Chemistry Teachers Club of New York
• Experiments with Neodymium mega-magnet.
• Generation Symposium - A half-day symposium of useful classroom demonstrations

My students at GA will be exposed to several of these demonstrations.

I met many chemistry teachers at this conference with whom I shared classroom and laboratory ideas. I discovered some new products in the exhibit area. I bought few items to be used in the classroom.