The You Be The Chemist (YBTC) Activity Guides: Lesson Plans for Making Chemistry Fun are the Chemical Educational Foundation’s (CEF) flagship program. The guides illustrate the Foundation’s mission to promote the science of chemistry, the benefits of chemicals, and the importance of chemical safety awareness.

Updated and revised in 2007, the current Activity Guides are divided into two booklets, one for grades K-4, and the other for grades 5-8.

The YBTC Activity Guides contain hands-on, student-centered activities that support the Benchmarks for Science Literacy and the National Science Education Standards, the guidelines for grade-appropriate material. Standardization concepts are the basis for statewide assessment exams.

Each Activity Guide includes:

• Approximately 30 hands-on, student-centered lesson plans
• Activity sheets for each lesson that can be used as lab worksheets or homework assignments
• A Resource Guide including safety tips, important chemists, and tips for teaching chemistry
• A Periodic Table of the Elements
• Fun Fact stickers

Additionally, each K-4 Activity Guide booklet includes an animated DVD to help introduce lessons and concepts, while each 5-8 Activity Guide booklet includes review game materials.

Students and teachers enjoy this fun and educational tool that makes chemistry come alive with real-world references.

To place your order, complete the order form and return it to CEF:

• By mail: 1560 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1250, Arlington, VA 22209
• Fax: 703/527-7747

For further information, contact the Chemical Educational Foundation at 703/527-6223, by email at comments@chemed.org or visit www.chemed.org.

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