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Primo Levi and The Periodic Table: Teaching Chemistry Using a Literary Text

2007; American Chemical Society; Volume: 84; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1021/ed084p775

1938-1328

Viktoria Klara Lakatos Osório, Peter Wilhelm Tiedemann, Paulo Alves Porto,

History and advancements in chemistry

We describe the use of a chapter excerpt from Primo Levi's book The Periodic Table in two courses for first-year undergraduate students offered by the Institute of Chemistry of the University of São Paulo. The aim is to motivate the students by giving them a problem-solving activity based on a literary text.