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Mad Science Lab:

Multicultural Awareness and Appreciation Adaptation

The Mad Science Lab original lesson plan was retrieved from the Ohio Department of Education website: 

http://ims.ode.state.oh.us/ODE/IMS/Lessons/Content/P06A02_Mad_Science_Lab.doc; adaptation by Debra L. Clark PhD

To bring multicultural awareness and appreciation to this lesson, share with students famous male and female scientists from various cultures who discovered chemical changes and physical changes (inventions) that impact our lives.  The following websites could be used by the teacher for informational purposes or the students could use these sites to do research:

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/black.shtml (African American inventors)

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/women.shtml (female inventors)

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/brit.shtml (Inventors from the British Isles)

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/china.shtml (Chinese inventors)

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/france.shtml (French inventors)

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/germany.shtml (German inventors)

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/greece.shtml (Greek inventors)

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/italy.shtml (Italian inventors)

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/scan.shtml (Scandinavian inventors)

http://www.sanbenito.k12.tx.us/district/webpages2002/judymedrano/famous_chemists-main.html (Famous and Nobel winning chemists)

http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/refbiog.html (Biographies of famous chemists)

http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC051293/some_famous_chemists.htm (Chemists from multiple countries)