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Scientists Pack FAMOUSs SCIENTISTS From chemistry to biology to physics and much more, these esteemed men and women have helped us learn more about the world around us, the universe, and why things work the way they do! www.littlebinsforlittlehands.com www.littlebinsforlittlehands.com FAMOUS SCIENTISTS MARY ANNINGs ARCHIMEDES DANIEL BERNOUILLI MARIE CURIE AMELIA EARHART GALILEO WILLIAM GILBERT JANE GOODALL ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL MARGARET HAMILTON ROBERT HOOKE MAE JEMISON ISAAC NEWTON LOUIS PASTEUR AGNES POCKELS SALLY RIDE NANCY GRACE ROMAN MARIE THARP NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON www.littlebinsforlittlehands.com www.littlebinsforlittlehands.com Scientist Video Projects Click on each of the images below to watch an animated video explaining an easy project! Scientist Video Projects Click on each of the images below to watch an animated video explaining an easy project! Scientist Video Projects Click on each of the images below to watch an animated video explaining an easy project! MYs FAVORITE SCIENTIST www.littlebinsforlittlehands.com www.littlebinsforlittlehands.com ME! AS A SCIENTIST DRAW YOURSELF, AS A SCIENTIST WHAT FIELD OF SCIENCE WOULD YOU LIKE TO STUDY, AND WHY HTTPS://MYMODERNMET.COM/RECREATE-ART-HISTORY-CHALLENGE/ www.littlebinsforlittlehands.com MY FAVORITE SCIENTIST MY FAVORITE SCIENTIST IS... DRAW WHAT YOUR SCIENTIST IS MOST KNOWN FOR NAME FROM BORN DIED FIELD OF SCIENCE WHAT INSPIRES YOU ABOUT THEIR WORK? HTTPS://MYMODERNMET.COM/RECREATE-ART-HISTORY-CHALLENGE/ www.littlebinsforlittlehands.com SCIENTISTS AND INVENTORS Do you love science and experimenting? Do you love learning about cool inventions? From chemistry to biology to physics ands much more, these esteemed men and women have helped us learn more about the world around us, the universe, and why things work the way they do! CRAFTS EXPERIMENTS 5 ACTIVITIES www.littlebinsforlittlehands.com www.littlebinsforlittlehands.com SCIENCE SUPPLIES SUGAR MARKERS OR CRAYONS FULL FAT MILK STYROFOAM CUPS 1 PACKET RAPID RISE YEAST STRING OLIVE OIL s NAIL FLOUR KEY RING SALT WHITE FLOWERS WATER FOOD COLORING ROUND COOKIE CUTTER JARS DINOSAUR FIGURES PAPER TOWELS GLASS OF WATER STIRRER RANDOM SINK FLOAT OBJECTS CARDBOARD 2 BALLOONS GLUE TAPE LARGE ZIP LOCK BAG STRING BOWL A STRAW PAPER BAG BLACK CONSTRUCTION SCISSORS PAPER GLUE STICK GRAY WASHABLE PAINT DAWN DISH SOAP WHITE CHALK COTTON SWABS CANVAS PENNIES PAINT EYEDROPPER ART PAPER MARSHMALLOWS NAILS, SCREWS, NUTS TOOTHPICKS MAGNET www.littlebinsforlittlehands.comRULER www.littlebinsforlittlehands.com TIPS FOR SUCCESS Kids are born scientists, curious about the world around them and how it all fits together. And science experiments are greats ways for children to explore the world, learn about the scientific method and just have fun. OUR TOP TEN TIPS Find your supplies Read ahead Follow the instructions Value your child’s questions Explore and find the answers together Give children time and space to explore Accept that explorations are often messy Learn from mistakes together Invite curiosity Encourage children to record their observations www.littlebinsforlittlehands.com www.littlebinsforlittlehands.com TOP SECRET SCIENTIST Make your own Secret Decoder Ring! STEP 1: Print out the two page templates SUPPLIES: and the coded message page. STEP 2: Cut out each circle. Circle templates STEP 3: Place the middle circle on top Coded message of the larger circle so the letters and Scissors Paper fastener images line up. STEP 4: Place the smaller circle on top and use scissors or a nail to punch a hole through all the circles. STEP 5: Push the paper fastener through the circles and fasten. Secret codes are similar to science investigations. They contain both direct and indirect evidence to help you draw conclusions and solve the code! When you analyze the data from an investigation, you need to look at all the evidence. Sometimes the evidence is very clear and direct or observable and measurable. This is called direct evidence. Evidence that is not as clear and measurable is called indirect evidence. This type of evidence you have to infer from what your data tells you or what you can see but can not actually measure. Both types of evidence are used to draw conclusions and determine whether you have answered your question or proved your hypothesis or solved your code. www.littlebinsforlittlehands.com E | TOP SE OD CR C E T T E S R C C I E E S N | T I T S S T I | T S N E E C I R C S E T T E C O R D C E E | S P T O MARY ANNING Mary Anning was an English British fossil collector, dealer and paleontologist. She was not a trained scientist, but taught herself to read and write then read all about anatomy – her parents were too poor to send her to school. The cliffs near where she lived in Dorset, England were rich with fossils Mary was never from the Jurassic period. Anning taken seriously as spent months uncovering the body of a scientist. It was her first fossil, a marine reptile that very unusual for swam in the time of dinosaurs. It was women at this later named Ichthyosaurus, which time to become means ‘fish lizard.’ She found the first ‘proper’ plesiosaur and a pterosaur as well. scientists. Today, Over the course of her life she made Mary is many incredible discoveries. This remembered as made her famous among some of the one of the most important scientists of the day. greatest fossil They would visit her for advice and to hunters to have discuss scientific ideas about fossils. ever lived. www.littlebinsforlittlehands.comwww.littlebinsforlittlehands.com MARY ANNING Fossils with salt dough SUPPLIES Make your own salt dough fossils and explore 2 C all-purpose favorite dinosaur activities through fun play! bleached flour 1 C of salt STEP 1: Combine all the dry ingredients in a bowl 1 C of warm water and form a well in the center. Round cookie cutter STEP 2: Add the warm water to the dry ingredients Dinosaur Figures and mix together until it forms a dough. STEP 3: Roll the dough to ¼ inch thick or so and cut out round shapes with a circle cookie cutter. STEP 4: Take your favorite dinosaurs and press the feet into the salt dough to make dinosaur fossils. STEP 5: Place on a tray and leave for 24 to 48 hours to air dry. STEP 6: When the salt dough fossils are hard use them to create your own dino dig. Can you match each dinosaur fossil to the right dinosaur? HOW ARE FOSSILS FORMED? Most fossils are formed when a plant or animal dies in a watery environ- ment and then is rapidly buried in mud and silt. The soft parts of the plants and animals break down leaving the hard bones or shells behind. Over time, small particles called sediment build up over the top and harden into rock. These clues of the remains of these animals and plants are preserved for scientists to find thousands of years later. These type of fossils are called body fossils. www.littlebinsforlittlehands.com MARY ANNING Use your decoder ring to reveal a quote by Mary Anning. ** Turn your coder so the letter A lines up with 9. 17 217 1 20 9 26 15 13 9 22 12 16 13 9 4 7 10 3 2 17 2 17 2 2 1613 14 17 26 1 2 9 22 12 23 22 20 7 23 22 13 12 17 1 11 23 4 13 26 13 12 . 17 22 13 3 26 23 24 13 www.littlebinsforlittlehands.com MARY ANNING Try to find all the words listed in the list below. Remember, the words can be up, down, diagonal, and backwards! ICHTHYOSAURUS OCEAN SCIENTIST ENGLAND WOMAN CLIFFS PREHISTORIC FOSSILS DINOSAURS JURASSIC www.littlebinsforlittlehands.com ARCHIMEDES Archimedes was a Greek scientist. He was an inventor, an astronomer, and a mathematician. He also understood and wrote about what happens when things float in liquids, which is called buoyancy. Archimedes image - Ron Leishman Digital Toonage ARCHIMEDES INVENTIONS Archimedes also invented a machine to measure distance, an odometer. A cart was built with wheels that turned four hundred times in one Archimedes mile. A pin on the wheel would hit a gear, so it is also famous as turned once for every mile. This gear would then an inventor make a small stone fall into a cup. At the end of because he made a journey one could count the number of stones new tools and in the cup to find the distance. machines. For Archimedes also made a system which one example, he made person could pull a large ship with just one rope. a machine to lift This was called the compound pulley. This is an water that could important machine even today, as it helps be used by farmers people in everyday life, although the versions we to bring water to now use are much more complicated. They still their crops. This is work by the same principle, though. called Archimedes' screw. www.littlebinsforlittlehands.com ARCHIMEDES Buoyancy Experiment SUPPLIES Can you guess which things will sink and which Printed will float? Try this experiment and find out! observation log Glass of water STEP 1: Print observation log. Random objects STEP 2: Fill a glass of water 2/3 full. STEP 3: Find random objects from around the house. Place them in the glass of water to find out if they will sink or float! Record results. ARCHIMEDES AND BUOYANCY Archimedes was a man with many talents. Not only did he make many different inventions, tools and machines, he also knew about numbers and about water and other objects. In physics, buoyancy is an upward force on an object immersed in a fluid, enabling it to float or at least to appear to become lighter.
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