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Chemistry at Karlsruhe Post-Mortem

Chemistry at Karlsruhe Post-Mortem. What Actually Happened. Vote held that Atoms are Real No Other votes Canizzarro gave his lecture and then published what is viewed as one of the most important papers in early chemistry

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Chemistry at Karlsruhe Post-Mortem

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  1. Chemistry at KarlsruhePost-Mortem

  2. What Actually Happened • Vote held that Atoms are Real • No Other votes • Canizzarro gave his lecture and then published what is viewed as one of the most important papers in early chemistry • Mendeleev conceived the Periodic Table of Elements on the train ride home

  3. What Actually Happened • By 1864 – Chemistry was as we know it today • Periodic Table of Elements • Atomic Weights • Correct formulas for water and organic compounds • Organic and structural chemistry blossomed • International meetings are still the way major decisions are made - IUPAC

  4. Instructor Resources • Student game book • Instructor’s Manual • Suggested syllabus • Tips on role assignment and game management • Student Roles (12-40 per game) • Facebook - Faculty Lounge (Private Group)

  5. Web Resources • http://reacting.barnard.edu Open site • www.rttp.org Registration required • https://sites.google.com/site/reactingscience/home • Game books open • IM Password protected

  6. Anecdotal ObservationsKarlsruhe in Introductory Chemistry • Students get to know each other early • Breaks down typical polarizations in class • Race, Class level, gender • Students work outside class in groups • Work with student they might never talk to • Students are more interactive through term.

  7. What did you Like?

  8. What did you dislike

  9. List of Short Science Games • European Response to SO2 Pollution – Helsinki 1984 • European Response to NOx Pollution – Sophia 1987 • Climate Change in Copenhagen – 2009 • Challenging the USDA Food Pyramid, 1991 • Feeding Africa, 2002 GM Foods or Starvation • Diet and the Killer Diseases - 1979Origin of Low fat diet fad • Chemistry at Karlsruhe, 1860 • London 1854: Cesspits, Cholera and Conflict over the Broad Street Pump • The Pluto Debate, 1999-2006 - Defining a planet • Ways and Means, 1935 Debating Social Security with Math

  10. List of Long Science Games • Acid Rain in Europe, 1979-1989 • SO2 NOx, Catalytic Converters and Leaded Gas • Kansas 1999: Evolution or Creationism • Includes Big Bang Cosmology • The Trial of Galileo: Aristotelianism, the “New Cosmology,” and the Catholic Church, 1616-33 • Cosmology and Astronomy • Darwin, the Copley Medal and the Rise of Naturalism

  11. Acknowledgements • NSF-CCLI Award 0920441 2009-2013 • Mark Carnes and Reacting Board

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