Famous Scientist Wanted Poster Project
Be on the look out for this man!
Albert Einstein
WANTED FOR THEORY OF RELATIVITY
Requirements:
1. Poster MUST be on an 8 1/2 x 11 poster board or construction paper. 5 points
2. Poster MUST be neat and easy to understand. 5 points
3. Mug shot - We need to know what they look like! 10 points
4. First, Middle and Last name of your scientist. 5 points
5. Birth Date and Year of Death or if still alive. 5 points
6. What country were they born in and where did they do their work? 10 points
7. What are they famous (wanted) for? 5-8 complete sentences, in your own words. 30 points
8. A fact that you found interesting OR a quote by that person. 10 points
9. Make a photocopy of your sources with information highlighted. 15 points
10. Your name on the bottom right corner. 5 points
Timeline for project:
Week 1 -
Week 2 -
Select a Scientist – SCIENTIST NAME DUE TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15TH
Research Scientist, use the library, internet, books, etc. on your Scientist. Take notes and
pull information on what they look like (mug shot), etc. Students will be attending one full
class period in the Computer Lab to assist them with research– NOTES/ROUGH DRAFT
DUE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18th
Develop Wanted Poster with the information you have gathered. Remember a “mug shot”
is needed! Go through the above requirements for the project. Do you have all of the
requirements? – COMPLETED PROJECT DUE TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23
Famous Scientist Wanted Poster Project
Scientists will be assigned on a first come basis. Only one scientist per class will be
assigned. You may choose from the following:
Famous Scientists
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Ampère, André Marie
Archimedes
Aristotle
Armstrong, Neil
Audubon, John James
Avogadro, Armedeo
Babbage, Charles
Bacon, Francis
Bell, Alexander
Blackwell, Elizabeth
Bohr, Niels Henrik
David
Boyle, Robert
Brahe, Tycho
Callipus
Carson, Rachel
Carver, George
Washington
Celsius, Anders
Charles, Jacques
Alexander César
Copernicus, Nicolas
Cousteau, Jacque
Crick, Francis
Curie, Marie
Darwin, Charles
Dalton, John
Democritus
Edison, Thomas
Einstein, Albert
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ERATOSTHENES
Euclid
Faraday, Michael
Fleming, Alexander
Franklin, Rosalind
Galileo
Gates, Bill
Glenn, John
Goodall. Jane
Gould, Stephen Jay
Halley, Edmund
Hawking, Stephen W.
Heraclitus
Herschel, Frederick
William
Hertz, Gustav Ludwig
Hippocrates
Hooke, Robert
Hubble, Edwin
Irwin, Steve
Jobs, Steve
Joule, James
Kelvin, William
Thomson, Lord
Kepler, Johann
Leakey, Louis Semour
Bazett
Leeuwenhoek, Anton
van
Linnaeus, Carl
Lovelace, Ada Byron
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Marconi, Guglielmo
Mendel, Gregor Johann
Mendeleev, Dmitriy
McClintock, Barbara
Mitchell, Maria
Newton, Sir Isaac
Nightingale, Florence
Ohm, Georg Simon
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Pascal, Blaise
Pasteur, Louis
Pauling, Linus
Planck, Max Karl Ernst
Ludwig
Priestley, Joseph
Ptolemy
PYTHAGORAS
Ride, Sally
Rutherford, Ernest
Sagan, Carl
Salk, Jonas
Schrodinger, Erwin
Stephenson, George
Tesla, Nikola
Thales
Thompson, J. J.
Volta, Alessandro,
Count
Watson, James
Watt, James
Helpful Websites:
http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Science/Scients.htm
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/
http://kids.yahoo.com/science/
http://www.zoomschool.com/subjects/astronomy/glossary/Astronomers.shtml
http://charm.physics.ucsb.edu/people/hnn/physicists.html
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/scientists/