Chemistry Demos: The Sights and Sounds of Chemistry
Enhance Chemistry for Your Students! Make chemistry come alive for your fifth and sixth grade students through a series of highly visual chemical demonstrations at this exciting program.
You and your 5th and 6th grade students are invited to join the dynamic Chemistry and Biochemistry faculty for 75-minutes full of the flashes and bangs of chemical reactions along with age-appropriate explanations of the science behind the reaction. Our program offers a great opportunity to blend your classroom chemistry curriculum with a visual translation of these chemical concepts, leaving students with a greater understand of "how chemistry works" and a desire to learn more about the science.
Session Schedule
Chemistry demo field trips are free of charge.
2027 Spring Dates are TBD. Morning shows are held from 10:00 -11:15am, afternoon shows are held from 12:30-1:45
All local school groups and the home school community are invited to attend.
Register Your Class to Attend!
While shows are free, prior registration is REQUIRED for students and chaperones to attend a presentation.
We ask you to make these considerations when scheduling your class for a session:
- Registrations are accepted through EventBrite only.
- Each registration is limited to 100 tickets. If you require more than 100 tickets, repeat the process and complete a second registration.
- Be prepared with first, second and, third session choice. Because of high demand, you may experience some slow-downs from the site during the process.
- Because of the high demand for this program, do not reserve more seats than you need.
- If you serve more than one school and plan to bring classes from different schools, please register each school individually.
- You will receive an email confirmation for your registration.
Located in the Gezon Auditorium
Student Comments on our Program
"The experiments you did for us were amazing!"
"I really liked it when you set the rag and methane bubbles on fire. That was the best field trip of the year!"
"I'm really into chemistry now!"
"My friends and I had a great time with the exploding balloons, glowing tubes, and fire."
"My favorite part was when you turned the fire all different colors."
"Thank you for letting me go on stage; the whole thing was cool!"
"I didn't know that things can burn but not REALLY be burned because of how chemistry works..."
The Chemistry Demos were started by Emeritus Professor Larry Louters started the Chem Demo back in 2002. He is one of ذكذكتسئµ's most-beloved professors and presented at ذكذكتسئµ's high-profile January Series with the talk "Demonstrating the Wonders of Chemistry: Discovering God's Majesty in the Minuscule". Professor Louters earned ذكذكتسئµ's Professor of the Year and the . He was also recognized as one of His love for the field of chemistry is passed on to the upcoming generations of scientists and scholars through the annual "Chem Demos" program.
Contact Information
Katherine Pasma
Department Administrator
Full profile
- Phone: (616) 526-7700
- katherine.post@calvin.edu
- Chemistry and Biochemistry, Biology
- Devries Hall 100