Year 7 Science
Famous Scientist
Research Assignment
Due
Date: Term 1, Week 4
Weighting: 20%
Length:
1 x A4 page for each scientist
Syllabus
Outcomes being assessed
4.1
A student identifies historical examples of how scientific knowledge has
changed people’s understanding of the world.
4.5a) Students
learn to describe some recent scientific contributions made by male and female
scientists, including Australians, and discuss the effect of their contribution.
4.16 A
student accesses information from identified secondary sources.
4.19 A
student draws conclusions based on information available.
Purpose
of this assignment
The discoveries of famous scientists
have had a huge impact on our lives. The purpose of this assignment is to give
you a detailed knowledge of the work of two scientists and to enable you to
understand the influence that their discoveries had on science or society in
general.
Task
Present
information posters that detail the work of ONE famous Australian and ONE
famous international scientist. Write the bibliography on the back of each
poster.
Assignment
Planner
Define
the task
In class - choose ONE famous Australian and ONE
famous International scientist from the list provided below. Research these
scientists, then create 1 x A4 size information poster for each of your
scientists that details the information below:
·
Describe his or her
work.
·
Identify dates that
were important in the work of the scientist and the reasons why these dates were
important.
·
Explain why the
work of the scientist was an important development for science or society
in general.
You will be given time in class, with
resources provided, to undertake your initial research and complete a scaffold
sheet of information for each scientist. You then use these sheets at home to
produce the TWO posters. You may
include pictures.
Make sure that each final poster has
the bibliography of sources you used on the back of the poster. From the table
below, select ONE Australian and ONE International scientist.
International Scientist |
Australian
Scientist |
|
Marie Curie Galileo Galilei Robert Gallo Stephen Hawking Alfred Nobel Rosalind Franklin Isaac Newton William Herschel Luc Montagnier Charles Darwin Albert Einstein Ernest Rutherford Thomas Edison James Watson Nikola Tesla Nicholas Copernicus Gregor Mendel Louis Pasteur Michael Faraday Alessandro Volta |
Karl Kruszelnicki William Bragg Frank Macfarlane Burnet John Cornforth Peter Doherty Howard Florey Fred Hollows Mark Oliphant Andy Thomas Victor Chang Barry Marshall Tim Flannery Sir Gustav Nossal David Unaipon Douglas Mawson Michael Archer Jean Joss Mary White Fiona Coote Susan Serjeantson |
Locate
Information
1.
Use the resources provided in the classroom. You can also look for information
in the City and College libraries in the Reference sections, Science magazines,
Science encyclopedias, Biography sections and information books in the 500
section of the library. Access some of the websites listed below.
2.
You must use at least 2 different sources of information.
3.
Keep a record of your sources, on the scaffold sheet, for your bibliography.
Select
and Analyse
You should choose relevant information.
Make notes from the information resources you select and put them into the
scaffold your class teacher will provide.
Organise
and Synthesise
Arrange your information, with
sub-headings, for each of the parts described in Define the Task above.
Combine your notes from the information
resources you consulted into sentences and paragraphs. Your class scaffold will
help you to do these steps.
Create
and Present
Complete one A4 size page poster for
each scientist. Write out a bibliography for the scientist on the back of each
poster, using the entries you made into your scaffold. You must hand in your
scaffold to your teacher with your final posters.
Make sure you put your name and class
on each sheet and package all the sheets together into a page protector or
display folder.
Evaluate
and reflect
A good assignment will be well
researched, include interesting, relevant information and be thoughtfully
presented. It could include appropriate pictures or diagrams. It will cover all
required areas and include a properly written bibliography on the back of each
poster, as well as in the bibliography section of the scaffold sheets. Your
class scaffold will be neat and show that you have completed all the steps
required.
Good websites for this assignment:
Assignment assistance. How
to write a bibliography
http://www.bdc.nsw.edu.au/library/assistance/bibliographies.htm
Australian scientists
http://www.science.org.au/scientists/index.htm
Australian science
biographies
http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/aasmemoirs/aas_memlist.htm
Australian Academy of
Science
Biographies of deceased
Australian scientists
http://www.science.org.au/academy/memoirs/index.htm
Bright Sparcs
http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/bsparcshome.htm
World of scientific
biography
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/
History of science
biographies
http://sciencepage.org/history.htm
Uniserve - famous
scientists
http://science.uniserve.edu.au/school/resource/famsci.html
Marking
Guidelines: Your work will be marked
according to the criteria described below. You are encouraged to mark off each
section as a check that you have completed it.
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Student check |
Marking Criteria
Thorough description of each
scientist’s work Australian International At least 3 Significant dates
identified Australian International Identified reasons why these dates
are important Australian International Explanation of why each scientist’s
work was important to science or society Australian International Presentation of A4 poster including
neatness and creativity Australian International At least 2 correctly referenced
different sources (on each poster and in scaffold) Australian International Total score |
Mark
/3 /3 /5 /5 /3 /3 /2 /2 /3 /3 /5 /5 /4 /4 /50 |