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 ...