In this project you will research a particular scientist (living or not-living) that made some sort of contribution to our world.  Whether the scientist invented something, made something better, contributed enormous ideas, or discovers something, we want to know about it!

Research Project Choices:

You have 3 choices for the type of project that you complete:

1. Create a front-page news story/article about your scientist.

2. Create a printed children’s book about your scientist.

3. Create a full color poster of your famous scientist .

1. Go to NoodleTools and Create a New Project called your scientist's name.  You will collect your source information in NoodleTools.

2. Get the notes sheet:

• Open a new tab, go to google.com 
• Sign in to Google, go to your Drive
• Click on the "Shared with me" folder
• Go to the Famous Scientist Project File, click on the file name. 
•   Go to File, choose "Make a copy"
• Name this Your Last name/Scientist name
• Move this file to your Science folder
• Share this file with Mrs. McCormick 

You will use this form to record your information. 

3. Locate and Use Information: Begin researching with links below. Record ALL sources, including images, in Noodletools as you work.

4. Synthesis and Evaluation: When you have the required information to answer all the questions, create your product:

• Front Page News Story: there is a Google Presentation template in your Shared with me area of Google Drive.  Follow the directions above to Make a Copy and move to your science folder then SHARE this with Mrs. McCormick
• Children's Book: Create a Google Presentation to write your book,  SHARE this with Mrs. McCormick
• Poster: you can create this electronically using Google Presentation, SHARE this with Mrs. McCormick 

5. NoodleTools Works Cited Page: Use Print/Export to Google in NoodleTools to "print" your Works Cited page.  Once the Google Doc opens, go to Insert > Header and add your name to the top.  Move to your Science folder. Share with Mrs. McCormick.

Sources:

Science Kids to search for general science info - you want to look up a concept, invention, accomplishment of someone. Use the search box.

Scientist	Source 1	Source 2
Audubon, John James	NNBD	Exhibition of his work	Go to Grolier then click on New Book of Knowledge and search
Bell, Alexander Graham	Ducksters	Who Made America?  BBC	Go to Grolier then click on New Book of Knowledge and search
Blackwell, Elizabeth	Famous Scientists (alphabetical by FIRST name)	Middle Search Plus (iCONN) Article E. Blackwell: First Woman Doctor	Go to Grolier then click on New Book of Knowledge and search
Carson, Rachel	A Science Odyssey	America's Library	Go to Grolier then click on New Book of Knowledge and search
Carver, George Washington	Ducksters	America's Library	Go to Grolier then click on New Book of Knowledge and search
Celcius, Anders	Famous Scientists (alphabetical by FIRST name)	Super Scientists	Not in New Book of Knowledge
Copernicus, Nicholaus	Famous Scientists (alphabetical by FIRST name)	BBC	Go to Grolier then click on New Book of Knowledge and search
Cousteau, Jacques	NNDB	Middle Search Plus (iCONN) Article The man who opened the sea	Go to Grolier then click on New Book of Knowledge and search
Crick, Francis	A Science Odyssey	BBC with Watson	Not in New Book of Knowledge
Curie, Marie	Ducksters	BBC or Super Scientists	Go to Grolier then click on New Book of Knowledge and search
Darwin, Charles	Science Kids Facts	BBC	Go to Grolier then click on New Book of Knowledge and search
Da Vinci, Leonardo	Ducksters	BBC	Go to Grolier then click on New Book of Knowledge and search
Earle, Sylvia	National Geographic	Middle Search Plus (iCONN) Article Meet an underwater explorer	Not in New Book of Knowledge
Einstein, Albert	BBC  OR Ducksters	A Science Odyssey	Go to Grolier then click on New Book of Knowledge and search
Fleming, Alexander	BBC	A Science Odyssey	Go to Grolier then click on New Book of Knowledge and search
Franklin, Rosalind	A Science Odyssey	Science Museum History of Medicine  (words linked in text are to see the definitions)	Not in New Book of Knowledge
Galilei, Galileo	BBC	Ducksters	Go to Grolier then click on New Book of Knowledge and search
Goodall, Jane	Science Kids Facts	Jane Goodall Institute	Go to Grolier then click on New Book of Knowledge and search
Harvey, William	BBC	Red Gold: The History of Blood	Go to Grolier then click on New Book of Knowledge and search
Hooke, Robert	Famous Scientists (alphabetical by FIRST name)	Robert Hooke and the Discovery of the Cell	Go to Grolier then click on New Book of Knowledge and search
Koch, Robert	Famous Scientists (alphabetical by FIRST name)	Science Museum History of Medicine (words linked in text are to see the definitions)	Go to Grolier then click on New Book of Knowledge and search
Landsteiner, Karl	Famous Scientists (alphabetical by FIRST name)	PBS Red Gold	Not in New Book of Knowledge
Leakey, Louis Semour Bazett	Turkana Basin Institute	PBS Science Odyssey: The Leakey Family	Go to Grolier then click on New Book of Knowledge and search
Mendel, Gregor Johann	Famous Scientists (alphabetical by FIRST name)	National Institute of Health	Go to Grolier then click on New Book of Knowledge and search
Morgan, Thomas Hunt	Famous Scientists (alphabetical by FIRST name)	Nature Education	Not in New Book of Knowledge
Newton, Isaac	BBC	Super Scientists	Go to Grolier then click on New Book of Knowledge and search
Nightingale, Florence	BBC	Victorian Web	Go to Grolier then click on New Book of Knowledge and search
Pasteur, Louis	Science Kids Facts	BBC	Go to Grolier then click on New Book of Knowledge and search
Pavlov, Ivan	A Science Odyssey	Encyclopedia Britannica	Go to Grolier then click on New Book of Knowledge and search
Roentgen, Wilhelm K. (Röntgen)	Famous Scientists (alphabetical by FIRST name)	Encyclopedia Britannica	Not in New Book of Knowledge
Schwann, Theodor	Famous Scientists (alphabetical by FIRST name)	Encyclopedia Britannica	Not in New Book of Knowledge
Watson, James D.	A Science Odyssey	BBC with Crick	Not in New Book of Knowledge