What if Famous Scientists Were on Social Media?

Description

What if Famous Scientists Were on Social Media? challenges students to create social media profiles and posts for 38 famous scientists from around the world and various periods in history. They need to use their imagination and independent research to fill out personal information about each scientist as well as his or her family, friends, acquaintances, jobs, education, and interests. Then they are challenged to write ten posts the scientist could have posted and illustrate five of them as though they were shared in image or video format. They can also draw pictures to represent friends and acquaintances. Seven pages are included for each scientist. The entire unit can be printed, or you can print only the scientists students are studying. A set of blank worksheets are also included for any scientist being studied that is not included. 279 pages total. Ages 8-13.

Scientists in this unit are Cleveland Abbe, Alexander Agassiz, Patricia Bath, Ben Carson, Nicolaus Copernicus, Marie Curie, Pierre Curie, John Dalton, René Descartes, Charles R. Drew, Albert Einstein, Leonhard Euler, Alexander Fleming, Karl von Frisch, Carl Friedrich Gauss, James Andrew Harris, Joseph Henry, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, Johannes Kepler, Karl Landsteiner, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Gottfried Leibniz, Joseph Lister, Maria Mitchell, John Needham, Isaac Newton, J. Robert Oppenheimer, William Osler, Blaise Pascal, Louis Pasteur, Francesco Redi, Ernest Rutherford, Jonas Salk, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Alan Turing, and Dorothy Vaughan.