Indiana Science Grade 8

Unit 2: Chemistry of Matter

Lavoisier

Project Type: History
Have student research the life and career of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, a French chemist. Ask students to design a time line with brief descriptions of 20 events to represent Lavoisier's biography and his contributions to the field of chemistry. Allow the student to get creative.

  • Suggest the student use pictures and word art.
  • Suggest the time line not be a linear line, but something 3-D.
  • Suggest using a molecule structure as a base.

Alternate Procedure:
Have students divide up in to small groups to make large poster size time lines to hang on the classroom walls.

Resources:
Use the following web sites to guide the students.

Chemical Achievers
http://www.chemheritage.org/EducationalServices/chemach/fore/all.html

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
http://www.antoinelavoisier.com/

Life and Works
http://historyofscience.free.fr/Lavoisier-Friends/a_contents_lavoisier.html

Rubric:

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