New Regents Chemistry Labs: Fast & Fragrant

KEY INFORMATION

• Date/Time: Sunday, Dec 7, from 9am - 3pm
• Location: CUNY City College of NY, North Academic Center (exact room will be emailed to participants)
• Workshop Leader: Kara Luce & Sabrina Alkayfee (bios below)
• Appropriate for: Any NYS Regents Chemistry teacher who is leading the new labs, and those working with regents chemistry teachers.
• 6hrs of CTLE credit offered

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

The NYS Regents Chemistry labs have just been introduced, and we want to help you learn them. This workshop will build on strategies and structures that worked well for out Life Science series last year, and explores active learning strategies for deepening your student’s understanding of crucial conceptual models and help you effectively implement a student-centered, NGSS and NYS Regents-aligned approach tailored to physical science education. To do this, you will engage with the required experiments and activities designed to help students build a critical understanding of these models.

On December 7th, we will run the Structures and Properties of Matter: The Fast and the Fragrant – Evaporation and Intermolecular Forces (PE: HS-PS1-3) lab. (Keep an eye out for a workshop later this school year on the third lab, Just a Drop.)

You will work in both “student mode” and “teacher mode” so you can experience the lab through both lenses, and add practical tools to your teacher toolbox. We will include structured discussions about the new changes in the New York State Regents curriculum and test, strategies for accommodating district-specific curricular requirements, various student populations, laboratory resources, and more.

We welcome all teachers and administrators, both new and experienced, to join us for this engaging workshop!

WORKSHOP LEADERS

Kara Luce has been a teacher for 20+ years, teaching in a variety of settings in multiple states. While she has taught everything from 7th grade math to honors Physics, the one constant has always been chemistry. Kara has been working with and training educators in the NGSS standards since 2013, and has been a part of STEMteachersNYC since moving to the tri-state area in 2017.

Sabrina Alkayfee has been teaching high school chemistry since 2019 at the Bronx River High School, a Title I school in District 8. She has also taught Living Environment, Forensics and Biology, and is teaching in the district she grew up in (and can’t image herself anywhere else!). She considers herself a non-traditional teacher, meaning that teaching chose her, having majored in Chemistry at SUNY College at Old Westbury, and receiving her Master’s in Education (Chemistry 7-12) from St. John's University. She is of Jamaican descent, the biological mom of one, and has fostered many children over the years (including one presently). Sabrina enjoys volunteering, weight lifting, and learning more about others, and is the LGBTQ+ liaison and club advisor at her school.

ABOUT STEMteachersNYC

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