Showing posts with label scientists around the world. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scientists around the world. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Scientists Around the World

We finished our "Scientists Around the World" assignment.  As mentioned earlier, students had to find a current scientist who was still living.  I am TRYING to encourage them to become scientists, so I wanted them to see that many scientists are not what they think.  I don't know if this worked, because I got a lot of, "He's old," and, "She looks funny," so my goal might have been far-fetched.  Anyway, they learned about many different types of scientists and what they do!  Also, I have a student whose parents are scientists (which I did not know), which is WAY cool!  Here is our working board, which as you can see is a little United States heavy.  We are working on that...And one student contributed a dollar from Trinidad, which I had to map.  If nothing else, we worked on some geography, which is always great!