Twenty five chemical demonstrations related to the Nobel prizes for college students

• Project/Area Number: 13680207
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Science education
• Research Institution: Kitasato University
• Principal Investigator: ITOH Toshihiro Kitasato University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Professor, 一般教育部, 教授 (50050555)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): UDA Ikuko Kitasato University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Assistant, 一般教育部, 助手 (50189940) ; ITOH Yuko H Soka University, Faculty of Engineering, Professor, 工学部, 教授 (20090029)
• Project Period (FY): 2001 – 2004
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2004)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000); Fiscal Year 2004: ¥300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2003: ¥300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2002: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000); Fiscal Year 2001: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
• Keywords: demonstrations / Nobel prize / higher education / education of chemistry / interesting lecture / demonstration kits / DVD aids for chemistry / principles of natural science / ビデオ教材

Research Abstract

Recently, many young persons don't like to pay attentions to the natural science programs, in Japan. Such tendency is growing To the ages of college students and expanding to the worldwide scale. We would like to make the interesting and exiting curious ness in natural science program for the college students. The aim of this project is producing the interesting demonstration programs in chemical education for the lecturers in the basic natural science course try using the organized experimental kits.
Almost all the 25 demonstrations ate related in directly or indirectly to the studies of the Nobel prize in chemistry, physics, or physiology or medicine, however, some of them are the most fundamental evidences in natural science In this project, we produced the demonstration kits including the instruments and reagents, instruction textbook, and DVD movies. The textbook includes the following chapters in which are described the relation to the Nobel prize, outline of the experiments, mate rials and methods (instruments, reagents, materials, preparation and practice the demonstration), attentions and advices, check points (observation points, principals and descriptions, relation too the daily human activities, history of the studies, references).
1.Differences of burning between cellulose and nitrocellulose.
2.Burning on town gas soap bubble.
3.Town gas explosion.
4.Measurement of atmospheric pressure : Torricelli's vacuum.
5.Boiling of water
6.Aspirate a rubber egg through a narrow neck of a conical flask.
7.Compression of a pet bottle.
8.Restoration of an ice block.
9.Observation of surface tension
10.Stereo structure model of water molecule by s-p orbit.
11.Leaked blue light from gold leaf
12.Exchange of proton and neutron by meson.
13.Principal of an accelerator.
14.Fullerenes
15.Differences between nylon and the electric transmittable polymers.
16.Sequential analysis of instal ions.
17.Ignition of iron powder
18.Mobile of chemical equilibrium
19.Organic dye staining
20.Separation of the pigments by a silica gel column chromatography.
21.Verification of the lipid bilayer model
22.Lipoprotein through the menbrane.
23.Double helix model of DNA
24.Fermentation by thymase
25.Crystallization of an enzyme.