Sciences through the Ages

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Sciences through the Ages

• Judy Chauvin
• Cynthia Lamberty
• Alice Templet

Nicholls State University Thibodaux, LA
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Contact Information

• Judy.Chauvin_at_nicholls.edu
• Cynthia.Lamberty_at_nicholls.edu
• Alice.Templet_at_nicholls.edu
• www.nicholls.edu/phsc

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Acknowledgements

• Department of Physical Sciences
• Department of Biological Sciences
• College of Arts and Sciences
• College of Education
• LEQSF Educational Enhancement Grant

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Overview of Project

• Grant to enhance Social Studies teacher
  candidates Praxis scores
• Collaboration of all disciplines
• Collaboration among 7-12 professional and higher
  education faculty

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Objectives

• Connect concepts in science to the time period of
  their discovery
• Connect the political/social actions or events to
  the scientific discovery
• Covers all natural sciences
• Life sciences and Physical sciences

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We learned...

• Difficult for a social studies teacher to extract
  relevant information from multiple sources
• Collaboration between science and social studies
  teachers is needed
• Well let you discover what we learned...

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Time Line

• Year 1 to 1899 C.L.
• 1900 to 1949 J.C.
• 1950 to present A.T.

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Lesson

• Work together in groups.
• Imagine you are a class of 13 year-old seventh
  graders. In what year were you born?
• Brainstorm the important scientific and
  technological discoveries that occurred in that
  year.

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Lesson Continued

• Assume your parents are 30 years older than you.
  What scientific events happened in the year of
  their birth?
• Assume that your grandparents are 30 years older
  than your parents. What scientific events
  happened in the year of their birth?

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1991

• Helen Sharman becomes the first Briton in space
• LEP experiments confirm the existence of 3
  generations of elementary particles
• The Chicxulub crater is discovered in the Yucatan
  Peninsula, supporting the asteroid impact theory
  first suggested in 1980
• Carbon nanotubes related to buckminsterfullerenes
  (buckyballs) are discovered. The potential
  application of these "bucky tubes" is enormous

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1991

• The technology age in full swing
• CDs and computers common household objects
• George Bush, President
• Fashion Punk rock/grunge
• Traditional family become rare
• Gulf War

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1961

• Work on Proteins and DNA
• DNA Hybrids
• Transfer RNA
• Foundation of the Genetic Code
• Messenger RNA
• Synthesis of valium
• Silicon chips are developed
• Heat resistant superpolymers introduced
• Space Exploration
• Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok I becomes the first
  man in space.
• Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space
  later this year
• JFK prophetically announces America's intention
  to land a man on the Moon before the end of the
  decade

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1961

• Cold War era
• New explorations in space and social issues
• John F. Kennedy President
• Fashion Bouffant hair and tie-dye
• Family dynamics changing
• Smaller families
• Suburbs

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1931

• Karl Jansky invents radioastronomy
• Linus Pauling published "The Nature of the
  Chemical Bond and the Structure of Molecules and
  Crystals", which established the rules for
  covalent bonding
• Pauli proposes the existence of the neutrino
• Adolf Butenandt discovers androsterone.

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1931

• The Great Depression
• Fashion Hats for men and women, dresses for
  women
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
• Families scattered to find jobs

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Conclusions

• Scientific discoveries increased exponentially
• Discoveries in science develop as needed in
  society and contribute to the changes in society
• Scientific discoveries never cease
• In times of war, level of scientific activity
  drops (for items not directly need in wartime)
• We were surprised by interest this project held
  for us.
• One never stops learning

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References

• http//www.molecular-biologist.com
• http//www.psigate.ac.uk/roads/cgi-bin/search_time
  lines_date.pl
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_biology_a
  nd_organic_chemistry1950-1989
• http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pill/timeline/timelin
  e2.html
• http//www.heumann.org/u1/timeline.html
• http//www.molecular-biologist.com
• http//www.psigate.ac.uk/newsite/science_timeline7
  .html
• http//www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Timeline-
  of-biology-and-organic-chemistry
• http//www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Timeline-
  of-medicine-and-medical-technology
• http//www.gwhs.phila.k12.pa.us/students/projects/
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