Museo de Vida Research
Museo de Vida: Sounds of Science
Fact Document
Sources (please use MLA format)
Source for Music as an educational tool:
"American Music Therapy Association." What Is Music Therapy. N.p., n.d. Web. Nov. 2014.
Source for Synesthesia:
"Synesthesia Project | FAQ." Synesthesia Project | FAQ. N.p., n.d. Web. Nov. 2014.
Questions
How does music work as a tool to educate?
Music helps as a tool to educate because it heightens the brain’s ability to retain and remember information.
Why is music an effective educational tool?
It is useful for learning new things. When you put words to a melody, the correspondence of the two things increases your brain’s ability to retain the information and recall it later.
What is happening in the brain when a person listens to music?
When you hear music, your brain responds and becomes more active, paying attention to the lyrics, beat, melody, meaning, etc...
What chemicals are responsible for producing/regulating emotions?
Some of the chemicals that are responsible for producing emotions are dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin.
How do those chemicals react to musical stimuli?
Listening to musics releases the “feel good” chemical, dopamine. Also, the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex, which are used in processing emotion, are activated when musically stimulated.
What is music therapy?
Music therapy is the use of music to treat people of all ages with mental, emotional and physical disorders.
What types of medical conditions can music therapy be used for?
Music therapy can be used to treat patients with medical conditions spanning from physical disorders to mental and emotional disorders.
How can music enhance mood or quality of life?
When you listen to music you find enjoyable, your brain releases “feel good” chemicals, which basically means that your brain enjoys the music you are listening to, and will send chemicals and hormones throughout the body that also feel good, in turn, making you happier, or feel better.
What is synesthesia?
Synesthesia is when a certain sense is activated, another unrelated sense is also activated in the brain. For example, if someone with synesthesia heard the word “blue” they might hear a sound or smell a scent that would be connected with that word.
Museo de Vida: Sugar Preservation
Fact Document
Questions:
1.What is sugar?
Sugar is/comes from a plant (sugar cane).
2.What is the chemical formula for glucose?
The chemical formula for glucose is C6H12O6
3.What aspects of the glucose molecule contribute to taste?
The spacial arrangement of the atoms of the glucose molecule fice it a sweet tast along with the balance of the molecules.
4.How was/is sugar used the medical field?
Sugar was used for sweetener in medicines that tasted nasty.
5.What is a monosaccharide? Disaccharide? Polysaccharide?
They are "simple sugars", Their names refer to the number of units in them.
6.Draw a glucose molecule.
7.What is the difference between glucose, fructose, sucrose and lactose? What are they found in? What are their chemical formulas? What do their molecules look like?
Glucose:
Isomers are compounds that have the same chemical formula but different arrangements of the atoms.
9.What does the body use glucose for? What happens to the human body if glucose levels are off?
Glucose is used to fuel the brain and is constantly in the blood stream to get it to the brain. If levels are off, irregular glucose levels may result in lowered brain activity and function, and possibly a coma.
10.What other compounds are "sweet" but are unfit for human consumption? Why?
Ethylene glycol is sweet, it when in the human body, is poisonous. The oxidization of Ethylene glycol by enzymes in the human body make it poisonous to consume
11.List the artificial sweeteners discussed in the reading. Tell me a bit about each.
Saccharin:
Name: Lizzy Young and Hannah Little
Date: 11~5~14
Chemistry of Art: Pigment Research
Please follow the instructions in the Chemistry of Art: Pigment Research document and type your responses into the sections below.
Objective
Answer the question: “How does art depend on chemistry?”
Time Periods
Prehistory
Antiquity
Medieval Age
None
Renaissance & Baroque
Modern Age
Industrialization
Contemporary Age
Pigments
Pigment #1: Egyptian Blue
Pigment #2: Bone black
Pigment #3:Viridian
Look Closer: Scientific Techniques
Technique #1: Microscopy
Microscopy is a technique in which a small part of an art piece is removed put into resin and analyzed. Through this analyzation, art conservators can see all of the layers in the art which often consist of original pigment layers, touch-up layers, varnish, etc. When viewed under a microscope art conservators can even tell how old the artworks are, how long it took the artist to create them, and the amount of time between each layer.
Technique #2:
By using x-rays to examine art, we can look at all kinds of aspect of an art piece that is not visible to the naked eye. For instance, taking an x-ray image of an art piece may uncover that there is an image underneath the surface. Many artists would paint over art they did not want and would reuse their canvases, With the x-ray technology, we are able to see not only the art underneath the art, but we can also see the structure of the canvas, repaired tears in the canvas, and other imperfections.
Conclusion
In a minimum half page of writing, using the information you just researched, respond to the question: “How does art depend on chemistry?”
Art depends on chemistry in numerous ways. The very basics, paint and all other mediums of art, depend on pigments. Pigments are made of chemicals like carbon, calcium phosphate and other chemicals. Without these chemicals, there would be no pigments for the colors artists have used throughout centuries. Modern art depends on chemistry because without the experimentation with chemicals in art in the past, we would not know which chemicals and pigments are okay and safe to use for art today. Throughout history artists have discovered new pigments and will continue to find new pigments for art in the future. Art also depends on chemistry because with the knowledge of chemistry we have now, we can determine what pigments art pieces contain, when they were made and it gives modern day historians and artists an idea of what art used to be like and what it has become.
Fact Document
Sources (please use MLA format)
Source for Music as an educational tool:
- "Use Music to Develop Kids' Skills and Character." Edutopia. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Nov. 2014.
- Hunter, Raquel. "Body Chemicals That Influence Your Emotions." Body Chemicals That Influence Your Emotions. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Nov. 2014.
"American Music Therapy Association." What Is Music Therapy. N.p., n.d. Web. Nov. 2014.
Source for Synesthesia:
"Synesthesia Project | FAQ." Synesthesia Project | FAQ. N.p., n.d. Web. Nov. 2014.
Questions
How does music work as a tool to educate?
Music helps as a tool to educate because it heightens the brain’s ability to retain and remember information.
Why is music an effective educational tool?
It is useful for learning new things. When you put words to a melody, the correspondence of the two things increases your brain’s ability to retain the information and recall it later.
What is happening in the brain when a person listens to music?
When you hear music, your brain responds and becomes more active, paying attention to the lyrics, beat, melody, meaning, etc...
What chemicals are responsible for producing/regulating emotions?
Some of the chemicals that are responsible for producing emotions are dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin.
How do those chemicals react to musical stimuli?
Listening to musics releases the “feel good” chemical, dopamine. Also, the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex, which are used in processing emotion, are activated when musically stimulated.
What is music therapy?
Music therapy is the use of music to treat people of all ages with mental, emotional and physical disorders.
What types of medical conditions can music therapy be used for?
Music therapy can be used to treat patients with medical conditions spanning from physical disorders to mental and emotional disorders.
How can music enhance mood or quality of life?
When you listen to music you find enjoyable, your brain releases “feel good” chemicals, which basically means that your brain enjoys the music you are listening to, and will send chemicals and hormones throughout the body that also feel good, in turn, making you happier, or feel better.
What is synesthesia?
Synesthesia is when a certain sense is activated, another unrelated sense is also activated in the brain. For example, if someone with synesthesia heard the word “blue” they might hear a sound or smell a scent that would be connected with that word.
Museo de Vida: Sugar Preservation
Fact Document
Questions:
1.What is sugar?
Sugar is/comes from a plant (sugar cane).
2.What is the chemical formula for glucose?
The chemical formula for glucose is C6H12O6
3.What aspects of the glucose molecule contribute to taste?
The spacial arrangement of the atoms of the glucose molecule fice it a sweet tast along with the balance of the molecules.
4.How was/is sugar used the medical field?
Sugar was used for sweetener in medicines that tasted nasty.
5.What is a monosaccharide? Disaccharide? Polysaccharide?
They are "simple sugars", Their names refer to the number of units in them.
6.Draw a glucose molecule.
7.What is the difference between glucose, fructose, sucrose and lactose? What are they found in? What are their chemical formulas? What do their molecules look like?
Glucose:
- Brain fuel
- constantly needed for proper brain function
- Has the same formula as glucose and the same amount and type of atoms, but the are arranged differently.
- It is a disaccharide, meaning it is comprised of two simple monosaccharide units a glucose unit, and a fructose unit.
- Disaccharide from one unit of glucose and one unit of galactose. Also called "milk sugar".
Isomers are compounds that have the same chemical formula but different arrangements of the atoms.
9.What does the body use glucose for? What happens to the human body if glucose levels are off?
Glucose is used to fuel the brain and is constantly in the blood stream to get it to the brain. If levels are off, irregular glucose levels may result in lowered brain activity and function, and possibly a coma.
10.What other compounds are "sweet" but are unfit for human consumption? Why?
Ethylene glycol is sweet, it when in the human body, is poisonous. The oxidization of Ethylene glycol by enzymes in the human body make it poisonous to consume
11.List the artificial sweeteners discussed in the reading. Tell me a bit about each.
Saccharin:
- Fine powder
- Very sweet
- Zero calorie
- Started tasting metally
- Composed of two natural amino acids
- 200 times sweeter than glucose
- Similar structure to sucrose
- Zero calorie
Name: Lizzy Young and Hannah Little
Date: 11~5~14
Chemistry of Art: Pigment Research
Please follow the instructions in the Chemistry of Art: Pigment Research document and type your responses into the sections below.
Objective
Answer the question: “How does art depend on chemistry?”
Time Periods
Prehistory
- What elements and natural materials were pigments created from during this time period?
- Were the elements and pigments toxic or safe to use?”
- Please include any chemical formulas or reactions.
Antiquity
- What elements and natural materials were pigments created from during this time period?
- Were the elements and pigments toxic or safe to use?
- Please include any chemical formulas or reactions
Medieval Age
- What elements and natural materials were pigments created from during this time period?
- Were the elements and pigments toxic or safe to use?
- Please include any chemical formulas or reactions
None
Renaissance & Baroque
- What elements and natural materials were pigments created from during this time period?
- Were the elements and pigments toxic or safe to use?
- Please include any chemical formulas or reactions
Modern Age
- What elements and natural materials were pigments created from during this time period?
- Were the elements and pigments toxic or safe to use?
- Please include any chemical formulas or reactions
Industrialization
- What elements and natural materials were pigments created from during this time period?
- Were the elements and pigments toxic or safe to use?
- Please include any chemical formulas or reactions?
Contemporary Age
- What elements and natural materials were pigments created from during this time period?
- Were the elements and pigments toxic or safe to use?
- Please include any chemical formulas or reactions
Pigments
Pigment #1: Egyptian Blue
- copper calcium silicate
- First synthetic pigment
- has an exceptional high luminescence quantum yield for a molecular-level infrared emitter
Pigment #2: Bone black
- It contains about 10% carbon, 84% calcium phosphate and 6 % calcium carbonate.
- Least pure form of carbon black
Pigment #3:Viridian
- Chromium oxide dihydrate
- Long lasting
- Low toxicity
Look Closer: Scientific Techniques
Technique #1: Microscopy
Microscopy is a technique in which a small part of an art piece is removed put into resin and analyzed. Through this analyzation, art conservators can see all of the layers in the art which often consist of original pigment layers, touch-up layers, varnish, etc. When viewed under a microscope art conservators can even tell how old the artworks are, how long it took the artist to create them, and the amount of time between each layer.
Technique #2:
By using x-rays to examine art, we can look at all kinds of aspect of an art piece that is not visible to the naked eye. For instance, taking an x-ray image of an art piece may uncover that there is an image underneath the surface. Many artists would paint over art they did not want and would reuse their canvases, With the x-ray technology, we are able to see not only the art underneath the art, but we can also see the structure of the canvas, repaired tears in the canvas, and other imperfections.
Conclusion
In a minimum half page of writing, using the information you just researched, respond to the question: “How does art depend on chemistry?”
Art depends on chemistry in numerous ways. The very basics, paint and all other mediums of art, depend on pigments. Pigments are made of chemicals like carbon, calcium phosphate and other chemicals. Without these chemicals, there would be no pigments for the colors artists have used throughout centuries. Modern art depends on chemistry because without the experimentation with chemicals in art in the past, we would not know which chemicals and pigments are okay and safe to use for art today. Throughout history artists have discovered new pigments and will continue to find new pigments for art in the future. Art also depends on chemistry because with the knowledge of chemistry we have now, we can determine what pigments art pieces contain, when they were made and it gives modern day historians and artists an idea of what art used to be like and what it has become.