Super Scientists

Name a scientist

Excellent opportunity to:

- challenge stereotypes - show children how science relates to their everyday lives - illustrate how science is ever changing and evolving. - demonstrate the range of science enquiry types used by scientists - investigate a range of jobs in science

Jobs for the boys and girls- learn how science helps people do their jobs- identify how people use science to help others

Extension ideas:

Suggest other jobs people might do for the blank cards

Think of other things scientists have helped to develop

Look at one job and think about the many ways scientists have helped them (visitor)

Look at the development of one real scientist and how it has affected people

Happy Scientists

Excellent for: Introducing the names and main

achievements of some famous scientists

Demonstrating how scientific ideas and concepts change, evolve and progress, and how scientists build upon previous knowledge

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Isaac Newton

Types of Enquiry Scientists use many different ways

to collect evidence and investigate.

Research has found that many kinds of enquiry were very poorly represented in school planning.

Fair tests were carried out much more frequently than other kinds of enquiry.

Sorting and Classifying

Mary Anning

- Fossil hunter- Paleontologist

Problem Solving

James Dyson

- inventor- designer

Making Things

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

- engineer

Observation

Charles Darwin

- naturalist- geologist

Pattern Seeking

Dr John Snow

- doctor

Exploration

Dr. Mae Jemison

- physician- astronaut

Topic Links

History

Literacy

E-mail

Letters

Recount

Biography

Numeracy

According to da Vinci, the Vitruvian Man possessed the following ratios:

- Height to arm span (1:1) - Height to hand span (10:1) - Height to the distance from the top of the head to the bottom of the chin (8:1) - Height to the distance from the elbow to the armpit (8:1) - Height to the distance from the elbow to the tip of the hand (5:1) - Height to the maximum width of the shoulders (1cubit) (4:1)

Bring Real Scientists into School

STEM Ambassadors

Julie MessengerSTEM Consultant N&MKJulie.Messenger@Leics-EBC.org.uk.

University of Northampton

Linda DavisSTEM Steering Groupstem@northampton.ac.uk

Local Secondary Schools

Sam MallettTransition & Community Programmesmallett@wrenn.northants.sch.uk

Bring Real Scientists into School

Parents and local communities

Bring Real Scientists into School

Edinburgh Zoo

Interaction with vets, zoologists, etcLinks to behaviour/habitats

Same time zone!

http://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/pandacam.html

• Giant Panda• Squirrel Monkeys• Penguins

International Space Stationhttp://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-iss-stream

Atlantis Livehttp://explorationnow.org/atlantis/