What does a scientist look like?

Scientist? What leads you to believe that this man may be a scientist?

Scientist? Eddie Murphy as The Nutty Professor

Scientist? Sponge Bob Square Pants Burger Flipper

Scientist? Stephen Hillenburg Marine Biologist Sponge Bob’s Creator

Scientist? Physics: Engineer for Boeing-designing fighter jets Bill Nye The Science Guy: Television show that combines science and FUN! "Leave the world better than you found it. Sometimes you gotta pick up somebody else's trash."

Scientist? Dr. Bruce Jackson Co-founder of the African-American DNA Roots Project.

Scientist? Chien-Shiung Wu, Physicist (1912 - 1997) Studied sickle cell anemia. She believed that "even the most sophisticated and seemingly remote basic nuclear physics research has implications beneficial to human welfare."

Scientist? Anna McGowan A scientist at NASA She leads a research group that is developing material to allow airplane wings to repair themselves

Scientist? Stephen Hawking Motor neurone disease Uses a motorized wheelchair, and a computerized speech-synthesizer Developed several theories about the nature and origins of our universe

Scientist? Ellen Ochoa Astronaut – First Hispanic-American Woman in Space

Scientist? Albert Einstein Asperger’s Syndrome (a type of autism) Theory of Relativity

Scientist? Dr. Mae Jemison, degree in chemical engineering and Doctor of Medicine First African-American woman to enter space Grew up in Chicago!

Scientist? Dian Fossey as a young adult.

Scientist? Dian Fossey as an adult. Field researcher and anthropologist. Groundbreaking work with Mountain Gorillas of Africa.

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator.

Anyone Can Be a Scientist! Will it be you?? Created by: E. Kovac, 2004

Imagine: What is a a scientist? 1. Draw (print or cut out) your scientist. Take the scene you just imagined and draw it (or print or cut out)! Include the scientist, the work space, their equipment, and anything else you thought about. Be as detailed as you can! *The scientist can be from imagination or a real person, living or dead 2. Write about your scientist. Explain what your scientist is doing. What kind of scientist is he or she? Are they conducting an experiment? Observing something? Describe where your scientist is working as well. 3. Describe using three descriptive words. Write down three words that come to mind when you complete the phrase “my scientist is _________.” 4. Compare yourself. Compare yourself to the scientists you imagined/drew/printed/cut out. Of the characteristics you came up with to describe scientists, which do you think you possess? What would help you to become more like a scientist? Do you think there are scientists out there that are like you?

Draw Write Describe Compare What is a Scientist? Rubric / Name:__________________________HR:______________   3 Pts Includes 3+ examples: 2 Pts Includes 2 examples: 1 Pt Includes 1 examples: Draw Scientist Workspace Equipment Write Kind Doing Working Describe 3 words that clearly depicts Compare Characteristics *you possess *like a scientist *like you