Famous Scientist
Fakebook Project
50 points
Go to: www.classtools.net/fb/home/page
Don’t forget to hit SAVE and choose a password you are going to remember so you can go back and finish it later!
Requirements:
 Use the “Fakebook” template, show
creativity, neat and easy to understand, good
spelling/grammar. 8 points
 Mug shot - We need to know what they look
like! 3 points
 First, Middle and Last name of your
scientist. 2 points
 Birth Date and Year of Death OR if still alive
current age. 2 points
 What country were they born in and where
did they do their work? 2 points
 What are they famous (wanted) for? What is
their biggest accomplishments? 3-5
complete sentences, in YOUR OWN WORDS. 10 points
 1-2 additional pictures of your scientist
 Did this scientist work with another scientist? Who was it and what did they do? 3 points
 Are there any museums or other places that are named after your scientist? Where is it? 2 points
 Where they went to school/college 2 points
 If they had any other jobs, ex teacher, lawyer, doctor…etc. 2 points
 Family information: husband/wife, children, parents, brothers, sisters. 2 points
 What else was happening in history when this scientist was famous? Ex. WWII 2 points
 Additional information or facts you can include about this person. 2 points
 A fact that you found interesting OR a famous quote by that person. 5 points
 Bibliography of at least 3 resources in at the bottom of the page (alphabetical order by author’s last
name.) 3 points
IMPORTANT NOTES:
 The Internet is NOT always factual! ANYONE can make a web page. Double check your information, and
WHERE it came from!
 Do NOT use Wikipedia as a primary source! It is not always a reliable source!
 Google is NOT a reference-do not cite it as one!
 Cite internet sources using APA format on your bibliography. Follow this example:
AUTHORS’ NAME AND YEAR IT WAS LAST UPDATED
TITLE OF WEBSITE
Wasson, R.J. (2012). Famous Scientists. Retrieved September 4, 2012 from
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/
INDENT (TAB) THE SECOND
LINE (HANGING INDENTATION)
WEB ADDRESS
DATE YOU WENT TO THAT WEBSITE
COMPLETED PROJECT DUE: Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Print out and bring to class OR email your teacher the link.
Scientists will be assigned on a first come basis. Only one scientist per class will be
assigned. You may choose from the following:
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Alvarez, Luis
Ampère, André Marie
Archimedes
Aristotle
Armstrong, Neil
Audubon, John James
Avogadro, Armedeo
Babbage, Charles
Bacon, Francis
Bell, Alexander
Bernard, Claude
Blackwell, Elizabeth
Boas, Franz
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Boyle, Robert
Brahe, Tycho
Cajal, Santiago Ramon y
Callipus
Carruthers, George
Carson, Rachel Louise
Carver, George
Washington
Celsius, Anders
Chappelle, Emmett W.
Charles, Jacques
Alexander César
Copernicus, Nicolas
Cousteau, Jacque
Crick, Francis
Curie, Marie
Darwin, Charles
Dalton, John
Democritus
Edison, Thomas
Einstein, Albert
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ERATOSTHENES
Euclid
Faraday, Michael
Fleming, Alexander
Franklin, Rosalind
Galileo
Gates, Bill
Glenn, John
Goodall. Jane
Gould, Stephen Jay
Halley, Edmund
Hawking, Stephen W.
Heraclitus
Herschel, Frederick
William
Hertz, Gustav Ludwig
Hippocrates
Hooke, Robert
Hubble, Edwin
Irwin, Steve
Jobs, Steve
Joule, James
Kelvin, William
Thomson, Lord
Kepler, Johannes
Koch, Robert
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent
Leakey, Louis Semour
Bazett
Leeuwenhoek, Anton van
Linnaeus, Carl
Lorenz, Konrad
Lovelace, Ada Byron
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Maxwell, James Clerk
Marconi, Guglielmo
Mendel, Gregor Johann
Mendeleev, Dmitri
McClintock, Barbara
Mitchell, Maria
Monturiol, Narciso
Newton, Sir Isaac
Nightingale, Florence
Ochoa, Ellen
Ohm, Georg Simon
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Pascal, Blaise
Pasteur, Louis
Pauling, Linus
Planck, Max Karl Ernst
Ludwig
Priestley, Joseph
Ptolemy
PYTHAGORAS
Ride, Sally
Rutherford, Ernest
Sagan, Carl
Salk, Jonas
Schrodinger, Erwin
Stephenson, George
Tesla, Nikola
Thales
Thompson, J. J.
Volta, Alessandro, Count
Watson, James
Watt, James
Wu, Chien-Shiung
**If there is a scientist you would like to research that is NOT on this list you must get
approval from your teacher first!
Helpful Websites to get you started:
http://www.famous-scientists.net/
http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com
http://www.clovisusd.k12.ca.us/learn/subjectlinks/science/famous.htm
http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Science/Scients.htm
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/
http://kids.yahoo.com/science/
http://www.zoomschool.com/subjects/astronomy/glossary/Astronomers.shtml
http://charm.physics.ucsb.edu/people/hnn/physicists.html
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/scientists/