Past Themes
| General Topic | Theme Name | Main Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Recycling - 2007 | “Recycling—Chemistry Can!” | Focuses on recyclable materials, how materials are sorted and ways to reduce, reuse and recycle. |
| Plants & Soil - 2006 | “Dig It!” | Explores the layers of the soil, movement of soil and erosion as well as movement of water and nutrients from the soil to plants. |
| Atmosphere - 2005 | “Air—Here, There Everywhere” | Looks at the different types of clouds, their chemical make-up and their role in the water cycle. Also emphasizes air as a gas that we don’t see, but is there. |
| Water - 2004 | “What Do You Know About H2O?” | Discusses water chemistry with emphasis on the pH of water and other common substances, including rainwater from the local area. |
| Trees - 2003 (pilot year) | “Chemis—TREE” | Emphasizes the important role trees play in cleaning our air as well as the effects acid rain can have on trees in a particular area. |
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Famous quotes containing the word themes:
“In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shi’ite fundamentalists.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)