1. Mrs. Dixon’s 7th grade science
What are Scientists?
Mrs. Dixon’s 7th grade science

2. DIRECTIONS:
On your sheet of blank paper title the top “What are Scientists”
Divide your paper into 2 halves to look like this:
What are scientists?

3. DIRECTIONS:
On the left side, draw what you think a scientist looks like.
Label your drawings!!!
What do they LOOK like? Draw their whole body.
What are they wearing?
What are they working with- what are they doing?
Are most scientists male or female?
Where are they doing their work?

4. Most student believe scientists…
Are older white men
Have crazy messy hair
Work only in labs (wearing lab coats)
Work with chemicals all of the time
Wear glasses
Are MAD!!! (crazy)

5. Did you profile your scientist?

6. Why do we think this? Albert Einstein Mythbusters Back to the Future
Bill Nye

7. What scientists really look like…
Stephen Hawking
When he was 9 years old, his grades ranked among the worst in his class
Work on the nature of space and time is groundbreaking
Despite suffering a neuro-muscular dystrophy Studies space and Quantum Physics

8. What scientists really look like…
Jane Goodall
Worked in the field not in a lab
Worked with and studied chimpanzees
Female

9. What scientists really look like…
Timothy John “Tim” Berners-Lee
Invented the World Wide Web by being the first to successfully implement the transfer protocols on which the Web depends

10. What scientists really look like…
Dr. Mae Jemison
Degree in chemical engineering and Doctor of Medicine
First African-American woman to enter space!

11. Mayim Bialik Ph.D. in Neuroscience in 2007 from UCLA
Specializing in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in adolescents with Prader-Willi syndrome.
Amy Farrah Fowler on “The Big Bang Theory”

12. What scientists really look like…
Dr. Edith Widder “Edie”
Works and lives here in Fort Pierce
Designs submarine vessels to explore deep ocean animals
Inducted into Women Diver’s Hall of Fame, 2005
Degrees:
B.S. - Biology M.S. - Biochemistry Ph.D. - Neurobiology

13. Be specific with your labels!
Revise and Edit!!!
Now draw your idea of what scientists REALLY look like on the second part of the page.
You may use my magazines to help you find a real scientist to draw and write about.
Be specific with your labels!
What are they wearing?
Where do they do research or experiments?
What do they look like?
What are they working with- what are they doing?
Are they male or female?
What type of scientist are they?