Unsung female scientists
par agnesueur
Among the following female scientists’ names, choose one and research how they contributed to breakthrough in science, or why they should be famous and are not.
Katherine Johnson
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Rosalind Franklin
Ada Lovelace
Sally Ride
Mae C. Jemison
Jennifer Doudna
Rachel Carson
Maria Goeppert Mayer
Jane Cooke Wright
Dorothy Hodgkin
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Wally Funk
Nina Tandon
Kiara Nirghin
Andrea Ghez
Sylvia Earle
Rosalind Franklin
Mary Jackson
You will use whatever information you find to offer an insight/explanation to your classmates about what this particular woman discovered/made (...). But you will do so as if your classmates were children. So your work needs to vulgarise the scientific facts.
You will make these presentations in the form of an activity for children. This can be a children’s TV show, a news report accessible to children, a game, an interview, a documentary…. You will work in groups (2/3 persons) in order to make the presentation/game/TV show more entertaining,
For example you can create
a kahoot to check everyone understood | |
or a jeopardy Note the link when you have finished creating | |
or a plickers (ask your teacher for help) | |
... | ... |
Or any game, presentation you think can be efficient.
You need to :
be correct about the scientific and historical facts.
be entertaining for your audience to pay attention.
speak correct English !