Chemistry of Everyday Things

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 11.05.04

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Instructional Objectives
  3. Background Information
  4. Hair Treatment
  5. Teaching Strategies and Classroom Activities
  6. Appendix A. Worksheets
  7. Appendix B. California Chemistry Standards Covered by the Unit
  8. End Notes
  9. Teacher Resources
  10. Student Resources
  11. Bibliography

Bad Hair Days? Chemistry to the Rescue

Marlene Mayor Gutierrez

Published September 2011

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End Notes

1 Banchero, Stephanie. "Students Score Poorly on Science Test." Wall Street Journal, January 26, 2011.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704698004576103940087329966.html (accessed July 13, 2011).

2 Zernike, Kate. "Commencements; At Yale, Mrs. Clinton Ponders Hair and Politics." New York Times (Manhattan) May 21, 2001. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/21/nyregion/commencements-at-yale-mrs-clinton-ponders-hair-and-politics.html (accessed July 16, 2011).

3 National Research Council, (US). National Science Education Standards: observe, interact, change, learn. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1996.

4 National Science Teachers Association. "Practicing Science Process Skills at Home." www.nsta.org. www.nsta.org/elementaryschool/connections/200712TorresHandoutParentNSTAConn.pdf (accessed July 16, 2011).

5 Moore, John T., and Richard Langley. "Part II. The Meat of Biochemistry: Proteins." In Biochemistry for dummies. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2008. 51-83.

6 L'Oreal. "Hair Science." www.hair-science.com. www.hair-science.com/_int/_en/home.aspx?tc=ROOT-HAIR-SCIENCE^HOME-HAIR-SCIENCE&cur=HOME-HAIR-SCIENCE (accessed July 19, 2011).

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8"hair biology - hair fiber composition." hair loss and hair growth information. http://www.keratin.com/aa/aa012.shtml (accessed August 15, 2011).

9 Baxter, Roberta. "Permanent Waves." ChemMatters, April 1993.

10 Drahl, Carmen. "Hair Straighteners." Chemical and Engineering News 88, no. 45 (2010): 54.

11 Hess, Glenn. "Formaldehyde Linked to Cancer in Humans." Chemical and Engineering News 88, no. 23 (2010): 30.

12 Jarvis, Lisa M. "Color Challenge." Chemical and Engineering News 86, no. 6 (2008): 32-33.

13 Zike, Dinah. Dinah Zike's Teaching with foldables mathematics; Dinah Zike's Teaching with foldables science. New York: McGraw-Hill Glencoe, 1999.

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