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Your assignment is to establish the importance of chemistry in our lives through a study of a common medicine --- aspirin). What to do: Students will look at each site and discover two facts about aspirin that they will share with their classmates in brief presentations. The following questions could be a guide for student searches.
What
is the chemical formula for aspirin?
In
the picture below what color represents carbon,
hydrogen and oxygen?
Can
you find all of each type of molecule in the
picture below?
Who
discovered aspirin?
Who
makes money on it?
What
are some new uses for aspirin?
Why
is aspirin so popular?
A. Internet research:
B. Links to websites of major chemical producers
C. Federal
agencies involved with chemical
issues
I.
CDC's Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry
II.
Consumer Product Safety Commission
III.
Food and Drug Administration
IV.
Environmental Protection Agency
D. Materials
safety
II. A collection of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
E. The
methods of science
II. An iconoclastic essay: "On Scientific Method" III. Essay: "Think Like a Scientist" IV. A comparison of the Socratic and scientific methods V. Some thoughts on teaching scientific methods VI. Some consumer topics that could be used to illustrate scientific methods VII. An exploration of "The Scientific Method"
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