National Chemistry Week 2008
National Chemistry Week 2008
was held at the Santa Ana Zoo
on Sunday, October 12, 2008
This year's theme:
Having a Ball with Chemistry
Chemistry students from 10 or more Orange County colleges set up demonstrations and hands-on chemistry activities for the hundreds of children who visited the Santa Ana Zoo that day, including many from the Hispanic neighborhoods nearby, as well as to Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops.
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Iron analysis of cereals.
A group of Cub Scouts gets ready to look for electrolytes in sports drinks.
Make way for Silly Putty!
Everyone hard at work making bouncy balls.
Kids focus on relative densities of substances - and how it relates to swimming.
College students prepare to help kids analyze the iron content of cereals.
Click here for pictures of National Chemistry Week 2007
For information about the zoo, click -- www.santaanazoo.org
or about helping with the chemistry activities, click -- cgrimes@gwc.edu
And for information on NCW activities nationwide
