Unsung female scientists

mardi 28 novembre 2023
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.


JPEG - 9.6 ko 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 JPEG - 21.5 ko
or a jeopardy Note the link when you have finished creating JPEG - 56.5 ko
or a plickers (ask your teacher for help) JPEG - 13.1 ko
... ...

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 !