SCIENTIST FILE
You will prepare a file on a scientist which will include the following:
- Five specified documents
- Two documents each from two sets of optional choices
- One free choice of document
The specified documents will include:
- A birth certificate for the scientist designed and filled in by you.
- A journal writing by the scientist as a teenager.
- A letter from the scientist to the government (country/time of the scientistıs life) requesting funds for most important project.
- 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.)
- An obituary notice.
Optional Set A:
- A wedding invitation.
- A letter from the scientist to another scientist of the same time period. It may either be real or fictional. (Indicate which.)
- An editorial cartoon concerning the scientist.
- 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.
- A commemorative poem.
Optional Set B:
- A design for a commemorative stamp or coin to be issued by the country in which the scientist spent most of his working life.
- Suppose the scientist lived in a time when automobiles were in use. Design a vanity plate which would be unmistakably that scientistıs.
- 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:
- Accuracy of information
- Creativity
- of idea
- execution of idea
These are some possibilities for the free choice documents:
- Horse and buggy license
- Marriage certificate
- College diploma
- Death certificate
- Letter to a friend
- Baptismal certificate
- Book cover
- Gravestone rubbing
- Letter informing head of state of meeting and requesting his/her presence
- Museum of Science exhibit bulletin showing series of drawings of invention
- Card catalog - list of written works
- Time line of life
- Family tree
- Letter indicating the award of the Nobel Prize
- Passport
- Salary check
- Security badge with picture
- Pilot's license
- Library card
- Telegram
- Who's Who entry
- Series of letters (back and forth) to another scientist
- Napier writing to Shakespeare commenting on Midsummerıs Night's Dream
- Police files
SCIENTISTS
- A. Ampere
- S. Arrhenius
- A. Avogadro
- Benjamin Banneker
- A. Becquerel
- F. Beilstein
- C. L. Berthollet
- J. Black
- R. Boyle
- R. W. Bunsen
- S. Cannizzaro
- H. Cavendish
- Gerty Cori
- C. Coulomb
- W. Crookes
- M. Curie
- J. Dalton
- H. Davy
- M. Faraday
- E. Fermi
- J. Gay-Lussac
- J. W. Gibbs
- T. Graham
- S. Hales
- Jabir Ibn Hayyan
- G. H. Hess
- A. Kekule
- Lord Kelvin
- H. Kolbe
- I. Langmuir
- A. Laurent
- A. Lavoisier
- H. LeChatlier
- G. N. Lewis
- J. C. Maxwell
- Lise Meitner
- D. Mendeleev
- J. L. Meyer
- R. A. Millikan
- H. Moissan
- H. G. Moseley
- W. Nernst
- H. C. Oersted
- W. Ostwald
- Paracelsus
- M. Planck
- J. Priestly
- F. W. Raoult
- F. Sabin
- C. W. Scheele
- G. Seaborg
- F. Soddy
- G. E. Stahl
- Ellen Richards Swallow
- L. J. Thenard
- B. Trevisan
- J. van't Hoff
- Karl von Baer
- J. von Liebig
- A. G. Werner
- F. Wohler
- 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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