Highlight a Scientist LessonIntegrated Social Studies

Highlight a Scientist

1. Think about what you’ve learned through your timeline research so far. Why do you think scientific research is important to human society? Give THREE reasons/examples from history.

2. In your spiral notebooks, draw a mind map with one central idea and FOUR supporting ideas.

Agenda

What is a biography?

Go over our collaborative

biography project

Research scientists on the

Internet

Create a collaborative biography on Google Docs

Lesson Objective: Using Google Docs, students will collaborate to research and produce a biography of a Cell Theory scientist.

What is a biography anyway?

Parts of a Biography

• Early Life

• Contributions

• Late Life

• Impact

• Bibliography

Collaborative Biography

• Include at least THREE facts in each chapter

• Use complete sentences

• Title your chapters

• Cite at least THREE sources

• Title page with author’s names

Scientist

Early Life

Contr-ibutions

Late Life

Impact

The Great Einsteinby Katie Brennan

The Early Years

• Albert Einstein was born in 1879 in Ulm, Germany.

• Einstein tried to skip high school by taking a test to get into a Swiss university, but failed the art portion.

• Einstein attended the Federal Polytechnic School in Switzerland, where he met his wife, Mileva.

Einstein’s Contributions to Physics

• At age 26, Einstein published his special theory of relativity, E = mc2

• Along with Niels Bohr, Einstein helped develop the field of quantum mechanics.

• Wrote letter to Roosevelt.

• During WWII, Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt warning that Germany might build an atomic bomb

The End of the Road

• Einstein emigrated to the U.S. in 1933 to escape Nazi oppression and became a U.S. citizen in 1940.

• Einstein was offered the position of President of Israel in 1952, but declined.

• After his death in 1955, Einstein’s brain was removed for preservation (without the permission of his family).

Bibliography

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein

• www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/people/einstein-albert-major-contributions-to-science.html

• www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/timeline/

Who will write each chapter?

Group Job Chapter

1’s Early Life

2’s Contributions

3’s Late Life

4’s Impact/Bibliography

Questions to ask while researching…

1. What makes this person special or interesting?

2. What kind of effect did he or she have on the world? other people?

3. What events shaped or changed this person's life?

Collaborative Biography

• Include at least THREE facts in each chapter

• Use complete sentences

• Title your chapters

• Cite at least THREE sources

• Title page with author’s names

Scientist

Early Life

Contr-ibutions

Late Life

Impact