1. Highlight a Scientist Lesson Integrated Social Studies

2. Highlight a Scientist

3. Agenda What is a biography? Go over our collaborative biography project Research scientists on the Internet Create a collaborative biography on Google Docs Lesson Objective: Using Google Docs, students will collaborate to research and produce a biography of a Cell Theory scientist.

4. What is a biography anyway?

5. Parts of a Biography Early Life Contributions Late Life Impact Bibliography

6. Collaborative Biography Scientist Early Life Contr- ibutions Late Life Impact

7. The Great Einstein by Katie Brennan

8. The Early Years Albert Einstein was born in 1879 in Ulm, Germany. Einstein tried to skip high school by taking a test to get into a Swiss university, but failed the art portion. Einstein attended the Federal Polytechnic School in Switzerland, where he met his wife, Mileva.

9. Einstein’s Contributions to Physics At age 26, Einstein published his special theory of relativity, E = mc 2 Along with Niels Bohr, Einstein helped develop the field of quantum mechanics. Wrote letter to Roosevelt. During WWII, Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt warning that Germany might build an atomic bomb

10. The End of the Road Einstein emigrated to the U.S. in 1933 to escape Nazi oppression and became a U.S. citizen in 1940. Einstein was offered the position of President of Israel in 1952, but declined. After his death in 1955, Einstein’s brain was removed for preservation (without the permission of his family).

11. Bibliography en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/people/einstein-albert-major-contributions- to-science.htmlwww.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/people/einstein-albert-major-contributions- to-science.html www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/timeline/

12. Who will write each chapter? Group JobChapter 1’sEarly Life 2’sContributions 3’sLate Life 4’sImpact/Bibliography

13. Questions to ask while researching… 1.What makes this person special or interesting? 2.What kind of effect did he or she have on the world? other people? 3.What events shaped or changed this person's life?

14. Collaborative Biography Scientist Early Life Contr- ibutions Late Life Impact