Scientists like me

ATL

information literacy skills: Access information to be informed and inform others

• Individually, research and identify a scientist who is like you in some way. Perhaps they are from your home country, or they speak the same language as you.

• Find out what their work was about.

• What kind of science did they do?

• Did they win any prizes?

• How did they start out as a scientist?

• Where did they study?

Present your research in one of the following ways:

• a monologue 'in character' pretending to be the scientist!

• a poster card that could form part of a mosaic wall of scientists made by the whole class.

• an interactive online 'guide' summarizing all the research from your class.

Reflect on your research. As a class or in pairs, discuss and compare the lives of the scientists you researched. What did they have in common? What made them scientists? Summarize your discussion using this starter: 'To be a scientist, one should be ...