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Objects, Material Culture, and Empire: Making Russia

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 25.01.06

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Beakers and Behavior: The Material Culture of the Science Laboratory

Charnice Hoegnifioh

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Bibliography & Notes

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⁵ Mortlock, Stephen. “Shattering Creations: A Short History of Laboratory Glassware.” The Biomedical Scientist, July 24, 2024. https://thebiomedicalscientist.net/2024/07/16/shattering-creations-short-history-laboratory-glassware.

⁶ State Government Photographer. Scientist Working in a Laboratory. Circa 1945. Glass negative. The History Trust of South Australia. Accession number GN09048. Wikimedia Commons, 2020. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scientist_Working_in_a_Laboratory(GN09048).jpg.

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⁸ Ibid.

⁹ Ramirez, Ainissa. “The Chemistry History of Superior Glass.” American Scientist, May-June 2022. https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-chemical-history-of-superior-glass.

¹⁰ Ibid.

¹¹ Martin, Gerry, and Alan MacFarlane. The Glass Bathyscaphe: How Glass Changed the World. London: Profile Books, 2002.

¹² Espahangizi, “Vitaglass: A Modern Boundary Technology.”

¹³ Chemical Laboratory, Paris, Showing Instruments, Furnaces, Vessels. Engraving, 1760. From Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, edited by Denis Diderot. London: Wellcome Library. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Wikimedia Commons, October 2014. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chemical_laboratory,_

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¹⁹ Bates, Gary. “The Role of the Laboratory in Secondary School Science Programs.” In What Research Says to the Science Teacher, edited by Mary Budd Rowe. Washington, D. C.: National Science Teachers Association, 1978, 63-82. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED148628.pdf.

²⁰ Bell, Catherine. Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

²¹ Bell, Catherine. “The Ritual Body and The Dynamics of Ritual Power.” Journal of Ritual Studies 4, no. 2 (1990): 299–313. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44368480.

²² Geraci, Robert. “Laboratory Ritual: Experimentation and the Advancement of Science.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 37, no. 4 (2002): 891–908. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9744.00463.

²³ Koster, Jan. “Ritual Performance & Politics of Identity: On the Functions & Uses of Ritual.” Journal of Historical Pragmatics 4 (2003): 211–48. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.4.2.05kos.

²⁴ Ibid.

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²⁶ Wheatly, Michele, Jessica Dewey, Laurel Willingham-McLain, and Jacques Mwayaona. “Using a STEM Course on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility to Explore Student Reflections on Their Socialization into STEM and Their Observations of the Figured World of Higher Education STEM Contexts.” CBE—Life Sciences Education 24, no. 1 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.24-02-0071.

²⁷ Avraamidou, Lucy. “Science Identity as a Landscape of Becoming: Rethinking Recognition and Emotions through an Intersectionality Lens.” Cultural Studies of Science Education 15, no. 2 (2020): 323–45.

²⁸ Kayumova, Shakhnoza and Remy Dou. “Equity and Justice in Science Education: Toward a Pluriverse of Multiple Identities and Onto‐Epistemologies.” Science Education 106 no. 5 (2022): 1097-1117. https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.21750.

²⁹ Wenger, Etienne. Communities of Practice. Learning, Meaning, and Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

³⁰ Kayumova and Dou. “Equity and Justice in Science Education,” 13-15.

³¹ Prown, “Mind in Matter,” 7.

³² Ibid.

³³ Donphaimueang, Praphai. Different Types of Graduated Cylinder (10 ml, 25 ml, 50 ml, and 100 ml Graduated Cylinder). Digital image. Wikipedia Commons, March 15, 2016. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Different_types_of_graduated_cylinder-_10ml,_25ml,_50ml_and_100_ml_graduated_cylinder.jpg.

³⁴ Prown, “Mind in Matter.”

³⁵ Williams, Carl J. "The SI from Platinum to Planck: The Biggest Revolution in Metrology since the French Revolution." In Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi," Vol. 206, New Frontiers for Metrology: From Biology and Chemistry to Quantum and Data Science, edited by Martin Milton, Diederik Wiersma, Carl Williams, and Michela Sega. Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2021, 119–130. https://doi.org/10.3254/ENFI210021.

³⁶ “PhET Interactive Simulations,” University of Colorado Boulder, https://phet.colorado.edu/.

³⁷ “CK-12 Simulations,” CK-12 Foundation, https://www.ck12.org/simulations/.

³⁸ “Palace of Versailles,” Google Arts & Culture, https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/palace-of-versailles.

³⁹ “Versailles—Never Seen Before,” Google Arts & Culture, https://artsandculture.google.com/project/versailles-never-seen-before.

⁴⁰ Next Generation Science Standards. “NGSS Lead States. Appendix F: Science and Engineering Practices in the NGSS.” Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2013. https://www.nextgenscience.org/sites/default/files/Appendix%20F%20%20Science%20and%20Engineering%20Practices%20in%20the%20NGSS%20-%20FINAL%20060513.pdf.

⁴¹ “Science and Engineering Practices,” National Science Teaching Association, https://my.nsta.org/ngss/PracticesFull.aspx.