The Magic of The Periodic Table: from Illusion to Game
1. The Magic of The Periodic Table:
from Illusion to Game
Josep Duran (1,4), Pep Anton Vieta (2,4), Miquel Duran (1,4), Fernando Blasco (3),
Laia Guillaumes (5, 4), Sílvia Simon (1,4)
(1) Department of Chemistry, Universitat de Girona
(2) La Salle High School, Girona, and Dept. Chemistry, Universitat de Girona
(3) Escuela de Montes, Dept. Matemática Aplicada, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
(4) Càtedra de Cultura Científica i Comunicació Digital, Universitat de Girona
(5) Vedruna High School, and Dept. Chemistry, Universitat de Girona
http://magsci.eu @magsci #magsci #lamtp
7. Project
“From the Magic of Science to the Science of Magic”
(#magsci, 2015)
Funding Agency: Spain’s FECyT
#magsci: Six tasks
• Stage show, The Mathemagic of Science
• Stage show, The Magic of the Periodic Table
• I Meeting on Science, Magic and Education
• MOOC on Magic and Science
• Participative activities at schools and @c4dudg
• Mobile apps on magic and science, gamification of
recreational science
12. And you, which element you are?
• Assign one element of the periodic table
according to birthday date.
– A natural year is 365 (366) days. Periodic table
have 118 elements. 122 is 1/3 of the total of days
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14. And you, which element you are?
• Assign one element of the periodic table
according to birthday date.
– A natural year is 365 (366) days. Periodic table
have 118 elements. 122 is 1/3 of the total of days
– Correspondence between number of day and
number of element.
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16. And you, which element you are?
• Assign one element of the periodic table
according to birthday date.
– A natural year is 365 (366) days. Periodic table
have 118 elements. 122 is 1/3 of the total of days
– Correspondence between number of day and
number of element.
– People write in a sticky-note the element number
and some data and stick in the table
17.
18. And you, which element you are?
• Assign one element of the periodic table
according to birthday date.
– A natural year is 365 (366) days. Periodic table
have 118 elements. 122 is 1/3 of the total of days
– Correspondence between number of day and
number of element.
– People write in a sticky-note the element number
and some data and stick in the table
– We take a photo over a chroma with some
characteristics of the element
19. You overtake energy despite being the
smallest and simple element of the
periodic table.
Remember that you are number one!
Intriguing and difficult to define, you are like Jekyll
and Hyde: both essential to life as wickedly
dangerous.
You are a chameleon that adopts the colors black,
red and white.
20. And you, which element you are?
• Assign one element of the periodic table
according to birthday date.
– A natural year is 365 (366) days. Periodic table
have 118 elements. 122 is 1/3 of the total of days
– Correspondence between number of day and
number of element.
– People write in a sticky-note the element number
and some data and stick in the table
– We take a photo over a chroma with some
characteristics of the element
– We made a periodic table of the elements
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25. The Magic of The Periodic Table:
from Illusion to Game
Josep Duran (1,4), Pep Anton Vieta (2,4), Miquel Duran (1,4), Fernando Blasco (3),
Laia Guillaumes (5, 4), Sílvia Simon (1,4)
(1) Department of Chemistry, Universitat de Girona
(2) La Salle High School, Girona, and Dept. Chemistry, Universitat de Girona
(3) Escuela de Montes, Dept. Matemática Aplicada, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
(4) Càtedra de Cultura Científica i Comunicació Digital, Universitat de Girona
(5) Vedruna High School, and Dept. Chemistry, Universitat de Girona
http://magsci.eu @magsci #magsci #lamtp
Editor's Notes
(5 min presentació #lamtp)
At the beginning, with alchemy, magic was mixed with a future science that would be called CHEMISTRY. (CLIC)
This is the ANCIENT PERIODIC TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS!! Too easy to learn it. (hehe)
With the only 4 classical elements.
This russian chemist at 19th century; father of the The Periodic table of the (REAL) elements.
And today we have a Periodic Table with 118 elements. And next november we are going to put inside the last ones (Nihonium, Tenessium, Moscovium, oganason…)
And today (with our Periodic Table with 118 elements) we use magic (and alchemical triks) to engage students in Chemistry!
For the last two years we have undergone a project that involves the use of magic and illusionism techniques, mainly based on mathematical principles, with the purpose of entertaining but also with the goal of increasing the public understanding of core chemistry values, in this case a basic knowledge of the Periodic Table of the Elements.
We have developed a varied activity, from hands-on workshops, interactive shows, and demonstrative performances.
This show won the Mention of Honour at the Ciencia en Acción contest in 2014, while it has been presented at several cities in Spain and in Europe: Nancy (Science&You), London (Science on Stage), ... International activites have been held also in Brussels (Researchers’ Night 10th Aniversary, Sept 2015), and are expected to be shown in Manchester (Science in the City) and Varsaw (Science Piknik) along 2016.
Overall reception of the Magic of Chemistry has been very strong, because it combines the secrets of mathemagic and metalism with the amazing outcomes of less well-known chemical experiments. Our team is willing to increase Public Awareness of Science, so we try to make activities enticing and attractive, but is also pushing for Public Understanding of Science, so depending on context we explain the intrinsics and secrets of experiments and games.
Our experience has allowed us to develop: a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) on Magic and Science and…
…and a summer camp for secondary school students in Science and Magic.
In the picture, the collaboration with a professional magician, Jorge Luengo,
UdG, July 2016.
(5 min per fer joc vermelle/negres per formar sals)
Imagine we want to explain the formation of salts!
We’ve got “red” elements and black elements.
The combination between one red element with a black one produces a salt. But this salt is not formed if two red elements are combined neither two black ones.
So… someone wants to help us?? We need 6 people (3 pairs).