Chemistry in the National Science Education Standards.docVIP

                                                                       Chemistry in the National Science Education Standards Acknowledgments The American Chemical Society would like to thank the National Research Council for permission to reprint material from the National Science Education Standards (@ 1996 National Academy Press). The photo of the original voltaic pile on page 80 is reproduced with permission from the copyright holder (@ Sophia Smith Collection). The photo on page 81 of Ellen Swallow Richards and an assistant gathering samples from Jamaica Pond, MA, was taken by S. S. Gallagher and is reproduced with permission from the copyright holder (@ Bakken Library). The photo of Glenn Seaborg on page 84, which shows him holding the balance used to weigh the first samples of the just discovered element plutonium, was taken by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Education and International Activities Division staff member Colette Mosley took most of the other photos. The production of this report has been in the following very capable hands: Peggy Corrigan, Manager, Graphic Services Amy Meyer Phifer, Art Director Vince, Parker, Manager, Composition Services Robin Braverman, Senior Composition Services Specialist Elizabeth Wood, Manager, Copy Editing Services Elizabeth Mitchell, Production Copy Editor Eileen Milnes and Becki Weiss, Copy Editors ISBN No. 8412-3551-1 Copyright @ 1997, 2003 ACS American Chemical Society Education Division 1155 Sixteenth St., NW Washington, DC 20036 Copyright 1997, 2002 American Chemical Society Chemistry in the National Science Education Standards CONTENTS Introduction Stanley Pine Thinking About Conte