High school chemistry teacher, Mrs. Leigh Foy, and her husband, Dr. Gregory Foy, presented at the American Chemical Society (ACS) national meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this past August. The ACS is the world’s largest scientific society with nearly 157,000 members. The Society’s 252nd National Meeting and Exposition: Chemistry of the People, by the People, for the People, featured thousands of presentations on new discoveries in science.
Dr. Foy, an associate professor of Analytical Chemistry at York College, and Mrs. Foy collaborated to present a session on Climate Change Education to chemistry teachers. “We had over 100 teachers from all over the country in attendance at our session, so that was great,” reported Mrs. Foy.
Recent research shows that teachers need to feel more confident about the science of climate change and they need more classroom resources. Dr. Foy developed a “Top Ten Data Sets that Every Climate Literate Citizen Should Know” to help elevate the teacher’s climate knowledge and Mrs. Foy shared with the teachers some classroom materials to help teach climate change. One of the valuable resources presented was a unit on “The Other CO2 Problem – Ocean Acidification” for high school chemistry classes that Mrs. Foy developed over the summer.
