INSIDE DOUGLAS COLLEGE / JANUARY 24, 1989

 

 

 

 

Make Your Own Slime!

 

Chemistry for Kids and Moms

Douglas College Community
Programs announces an excit-
ing, "hands-on", consumer
chemistry course for children in
Grades 1 to 4 and their parents.
The course has a bias towards
female students - mother/
daughter units - but the experi-
ments are designed to be of
interest to both sexes.

It is hoped that parents who
suffered "science anxiety" or
avoided science courses during
their school years will take the

 

(or Dads)

opportunity to relax and enjoy
some interesting experiments
and realize that chemistry is all
around us in our everyday lives.

For the children, this will pro-
vide a stimulating introduction
to scientific method with the em-
phasis on safety, careful
observations, and lots of fun.
Pre-packaged take-home experi-
ments will be provided after
each session and there will be
lots of samples and projects to
keep. Written instructions and

 

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instructor’s voice almost as if it were spoken directly into their ear.

Gladys Loewen, the Adult Special Education Co-ordinator at
Douglas College, says the new equipment will help students who nor-
mally wear hearing aids. “If they turn up the volume on a hearing aid
during a lecture they also hear all the other noises such as students
talking and rustling paper and the air circulation system. Often, they

just hear buzzing."

According to Loewen there are at least nine hard-of-hearing and
deaf students on campus. The amplification equipment will be useful
for five of those students. In addition, the Consumer and Job Prepara-
tion program for hearing-impaired students will be starting soon, and
all 10 students in that course could also use this equipment.

This is not the first time the Elks’ generosity has helped hearing-

impaired students at Douglas College. Four years ago the Elks
donated funds to the Foundation to purchase a TDD (a telecom-

munication device for the deaf).

For more information about the Douglas College Foundation and
how your donation can support special projects such as this, please

call 520-5400.

 

background information will be
available for all experiements.

The Douglas College
laboratories are spacious and
well equipped. Paricipants will
have the use of electronic balan-
ces, microscopes, pH meters and
other analytical equipment.

The course consists of six, 2-
hour sessions to be held on
consecutive Saturdays from
February 11th to March 18th.
There are two separate sections
of the course, morning or after-
noon. The titles of the sessions
are:

1. What in the World isn’t

Chemistry?

2. Let’s Explore the Cornflake

Box.

3. Water, Water Everywhere.

4, Stretchy, Bendy, Bouncy
Stuff.

5. The Chemicals We Wear.

6. Sweet and Sour - More Food.

Please call 520-5472 to
register. For information about
this course call Jean Allan, 520-
5400, local 3741.