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SCIENTIST FILE



You will prepare a file on a scientist which will include the following:
  1. Five specified documents
  2. Two documents each from two sets of optional choices
  3. One free choice of document

The specified documents will include:

  1. A birth certificate for the scientist designed and filled in by you.
  2. A journal writing by the scientist as a teenager.
  3. A letter from the scientist to the government (country/time of the scientistıs life) requesting funds for most important project.
  4. Suppose two years before the scientist died, the scientist were to apply for a change of position. Write the scientist a resume. (If the scientist is still alive, write the resume as of January 1st of this year.)
  5. An obituary notice.

Optional Set A:

  1. A wedding invitation.
  2. A letter from the scientist to another scientist of the same time period. It may either be real or fictional. (Indicate which.)
  3. An editorial cartoon concerning the scientist.
  4. Design a front page for a newspaper to be published on the day of or the day after the announcement of the scientistıs most important contribution to science.
  5. A commemorative poem.

Optional Set B:

  1. A design for a commemorative stamp or coin to be issued by the country in which the scientist spent most of his working life.
  2. Suppose the scientist lived in a time when automobiles were in use. Design a vanity plate which would be unmistakably that scientistıs.
  3. An epitaph.

Free choice of document:

This may be one of the above documents not already used, or it may be anything else as long as it fits the category, document.

A Bibliography is expected.

Grading of Project:

  1. Accuracy of information
  2. Creativity
    1. of idea
    2. execution of idea



These are some possibilities for the free choice documents:


SCIENTISTS


  1. A. Ampere
  2. S. Arrhenius
  3. A. Avogadro
  4. Benjamin Banneker
  5. A. Becquerel
  6. F. Beilstein
  7. C. L. Berthollet
  8. J. Black
  9. R. Boyle
  10. R. W. Bunsen
  11. S. Cannizzaro
  12. H. Cavendish
  13. Gerty Cori
  14. C. Coulomb
  15. W. Crookes
  16. M. Curie
  17. J. Dalton
  18. H. Davy
  19. M. Faraday
  20. E. Fermi
  21. J. Gay-Lussac
  22. J. W. Gibbs
  23. T. Graham
  24. S. Hales
  25. Jabir Ibn Hayyan
  26. G. H. Hess
  27. A. Kekule
  28. Lord Kelvin
  29. H. Kolbe
  30. I. Langmuir
  31. A. Laurent
  32. A. Lavoisier
  33. H. LeChatlier
  34. G. N. Lewis
  35. J. C. Maxwell
  36. Lise Meitner
  37. D. Mendeleev
  38. J. L. Meyer
  39. R. A. Millikan
  40. H. Moissan
  41. H. G. Moseley
  42. W. Nernst
  43. H. C. Oersted
  44. W. Ostwald
  45. Paracelsus
  46. M. Planck
  47. J. Priestly
  48. F. W. Raoult
  49. F. Sabin
  50. C. W. Scheele
  51. G. Seaborg
  52. F. Soddy
  53. G. E. Stahl
  54. Ellen Richards Swallow
  55. L. J. Thenard
  56. B. Trevisan
  57. J. van't Hoff
  58. Karl von Baer
  59. J. von Liebig
  60. A. G. Werner
  61. F. Wohler
  62. A. Wurtz


Developed from an idea from Carolyn Canzano & Rebecca Dewey Falls Church High School Falls Church, VA.

Contributed by Michael J. Kelly, Westford Academy, Westford, MA 01886


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