1. Mad About Science Reports!
Mrs. Biederbeck- 6th Grade GATE Science

2. Report Details & Expectations
Each month we will focus on scientists who have made great discoveries/accomplishments from diverse backgrounds.
Each person in class will be assigned a specific scientist to report on and given a hard due date by the teacher. (Hard due date = little wiggle room on when you can turn in the report late)
You will create a PowerPoint or Google Slides presentation report on your scientist using the template I provide you.
All reports will be presented in class on the date assigned by the teacher.
If you are absent the day you are scheduled to present you will have to present at the next assigned date. However, you are still responsible for turning your report in on time.
All slides must include the information outlined on the report template and in the report guidelines.

3. Each Month We Will Focus on Scientists Who Have Made Great Accomplishments From Diverse Backgrounds:
February – Scientists of African American Heritage
March – Women in Science
April – Famous American Scientists
May – Scientists with Asian/Pacific Heritage
September – Scientists with Hispanic-Latino Heritage October – Scientists with Disabilities/Handicaps November – Scientists of Native American Heritage

4. September Scientists with Hispanic-Latino Heritage
Mario Molina - Mexican Chemist
Reputed for his pivotal role in the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole
Bernardo Alberto Houssay - Argentinian Physiologist
Nobel Prize winner - Discovered the role played by pituitary hormones
Severo Ochoa - Spanish-American Physician & Biochemist
Nobel Prize winner – Discovered an enzyme in bacteria that enabled him to synthesize ribonucleic acid (RNA)
Carlos Juan Finlay - Cuban Epidemiologist 
Discovered that yellow fever is transmitted from infected to healthy humans by a mosquito.

5. October Scientists with Disabilities/Handicaps
Temple Grandin - American Professor of Animal Science (Autism)
 Developed some of the most widely used animal handling inventions in the world.
Geerat Vermeij – Dutch Professor of Geology (Blind)
Research has led to better understanding of how fossils once interacted with the world
Stephen Hawking - English Theoretical Physicist and Cosmologist (ALS)
Modern day genius who's life work was primarily centered on research of black holes and the Big Bang
Charles Steinmetz - American Mathematician and Electrical Engineer (Kyphosis)
Made pioneering contributions to electrical engineering
John Forbes Nash, Jr. – Mathematician (Schizophrenia)
Nobel Prize winner – Focused his work on the idea of economic conflict, created the “Nash equilibrium” theory
Thomas Edison – Inventor (Mostly Deaf)
One of the fathers of electricity

6. November Scientists of Native American Decent
John Harrington - Astronaut
First U.S. Astronaut of Native American Decent
Thomas David Petite – Inventor
One of the five early key inventors of Wireless ad hoc network or IoT Wireless Mesh, Technology.
Mary Golda Ross – Engineer
First known Native American female engineer

7. February Scientists of African American Heritage
George Washington Carver – Scientist, Inventor & Educator
Made important agricultural discoveries and inventions
Ernest Everett Just – Biologist
Famous for understanding the fundamental role of the cell surface in the development of organisms.
Charles Drew – Physician/Surgeon & Medical Researcher
Inventor of the blood bank
Patricia Bath – Ophthalmologist & Inventor
First African-American female doctor to receive a medical patent & invented the Laserphaco Probe
Marie Maynard Daly – Biochemist
First African American woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry

8. March Women Pioneers in Science
Mae Jemison – Physician & Astronaut
First African American woman in space
Jane Goodall – Ethologist
Most famous primate scientist in history
Marie Curie - Physicist & Chemist
Pioneered research in radioactivity
Rosalind Franklin - Crystallographer & Biophysicist 
One of the discoverers of the DNA double helix
Virginia Apgar - Obstetrical Anesthesiologist
Invented the Apgar score for newborns

9. April Famous American Scientists
Benjamin Franklin – Inventor, Scientist & Founding Father
Made famous investigations into electricity and for writing 'Poor Richard's Almanack’
Barbara McClintock - Scientist & Cytogeneticist
Discovered transposition in genetics
J. Robert Oppenheimer - Theoretical Physicist
Father of the Atomic Bomb
Carl Sagan – Astronomer
Helped popularize astronomy to the public
Lynn Margulis – Biologist
Developed the symbiotic theory

10. May Scientists with Asian/Pacific Heritage
Michio Kaku – Theoretical Physicist & Futurist
Co-founder of string field theory
Chien-Shiung Wu – Physicist
Helped develop the Atomic Bomb
Zhang Heng - Mathematician, Astronomer & Geographer
Invented the seismoscope
Jagadish Chandra Bose - Polymath, Physicist, Biologist & Botanist
Pioneered the study of radio and microwave optics
Tsung-Dao Lee – Physicist
Famous for work on parity violation, the Lee Model and particle physics

11. Know Your Stuff
Make sure you actually read through your PowerPoint/Slides presentation before you present!
Understand what each specialty your scientists is/was means.
EXAMPLE: Janet Lane-Claypon was an epidemiologist. Epidemiologists are public health professionals who investigate patterns and causes of disease and injury in humans. 
Understand your scientists discoveries/inventions were/are.
EXAMPLE:  Albert Einstein was famous for the theory of special relativity. The Theory of special relativity which laid the basis for the release of atomic energy, it determined that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers, and he showed that the speed of light within a vacuum is the same no matter the speed at which an observer travels.