Global warming in the kitchen

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- The second exercise is a role-play activity. Some students will play the role of Foote while others pretend to be Joseph Henry defending her and explaining her work, just as if they were members of the AAAS. 

- This activity can also be done in physics and chemistry, biology or scientific culture, and can be completed in class. It is important to highlight the simplicity of the experiment and the severity of its results.

- She was one of the signatories of the Seneca Falls Convention. She also worked as a writer, politician and teacher. She belongs to a group of scientists and activists who fought for women's rights, such as Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Darwin's critic; Ellen Swallows with environmental hygiene; and Mary Mitchell, astronomer.  

- Some of her contemporaries were relevant scientists like Florence Nightingale, known for being a pioneer in modern medicine and nursing, as well as for her contributions to statistics; Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), the first person to program a machine, which preceded modern computers; and other mathematicians and professors like Mary Everest Boole (1832-1916), Sofya Kovalevskaya (1850-1891) and Charlotte Angas Scott (1858-1931).

- Many female scientists have studied climate change; Eunice Foote was particularly relevant in the study of global warming. Some current activists stand out, like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_climate_change] Gro Harlem Brundtland or, more recently, Greta Thunberg; they can both be considered Foote's successors, and so is the environmental scientist Petra Kelly or the American Julia Butterfly; in fact, Eunice Foote discovered the greenhouse effect while experimenting in her kitchen.

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In this activity we will analyse a graph representing the change in temperature inside two tubes in an experiment conceived by Eunice Newton Foote, which she used to explain what happens when there is a higher concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. 

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