Acknowledgements

This work was funded by an Eisenhower Title II grant for K-8 Science Teachers' Institute from the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning to Millsaps College. these scientific explorations have been designed and tested as part of the Science Teachers' Institute in the summer of 1999 at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.
 

About the Author

Johnnie-Marie Whitfield serves as the Director of the Science Teachers' Institute at Millsaps College which is now in it's third year.  In addition, she has been Director of the Master Teacher Program from its beginning in 1993 as well as Director of the Summer Research Institute in Biology and Chemistry which began in 1989.  Dr. Whitfield is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry.  She received the B.S. with Honors in Chemistry from Millsaps College and the Ph.D. in Chemistry from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.  Currently serving as the Councilor of the Mississippi Section of the American Chemical Society. she has been both Chair of the Mississippi Section of ACS and the Science Education Division of the Mississippi Academy of Science.  She was elected to the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Academy of Science in the Spring of 1999.
 

Copyright 1999 by Johnnie-Marie Whitfield.
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