BIOGRAPHY – AUTOBIOGRAPHY ORAL BOOK REPORT Due Date : _____________________ Name:_______________________________________________________ Mathematician/Scientist:______________________________________ Citations from three sources: 1. Book source:______________________________________________ 2. On-line Encyclopedia:______________________________________ 3. On-line Article:____________________________________________ Topics to be discussed during your presentation/power point: Presentation should be about 3 minutes. 1. Early Years: Explain what you have learned about their early years. What were their interests, etc…. 2. What were your person’s main accomplishments? 3. What the math component accomplished? 4. What science component did they accomplish? 5. What influence did this person have on the community, the country or the world? 6. What is your opinion of this person’s life and accomplishments? Would you recommend your classmates to read up on your mathematician/scientist? Extra Credit: Dressing up as your person and bringing props associated to their discoveries. **Project Directions and Rubric in resources Due Date: _____________________________ Project Presentation Date: ___________________________ Name:___________________________________________ Mathematician/Scientist: _________________________________________________ 7 8 9 10 Student delivered presentation Student delivered presentation Student delivered presentation Student delivered presentation Oral Presentation with lack of preparation and lack with hesitation and lack of with confidence and general with confidence and thorough of Mathematician/ of evidence of components of confidence and lack of evidence understanding of all the understanding of all the Scientist their mathematician/scientists. of the components of their components of their components of their (Isaac/ ) Difficult to Understand mathematician/scientist. mathematician/scientist. mathematician/ scientist. Spoke Did not speak clearly Mostly Spoke Clearly clearly Student had a difficult time Student understood the general Student understood with Student did not mention a Math Component explaining the mathematical purpose of their mathematical confidence the mathematical mathematical component from component of their component of their component of their their mathematician/scientist mathematician/scientist mathematician/scientist mathematician/scientist Student had a difficult time Student understood the general Student understood with Science Student did not mention a explaining the scientific purpose of their scientific confidence the scientific Component scientific component from their component of their component of their component of their (Mrs. Isaac) mathematician/scientist mathematician/scientist mathematician/scientist mathematician/scientist Presentation has no flow. No Presentation is unorganized. Presentation flows well. Tools Presentation flows well & PowerPoint tools used. Insufficient number of Tools are not used in a relevant used correctly. Correct number of logically. Presentation reflects Slide Creation slides. manner. Lacking in number of slides. Overall presentation is extensive use of tools in a (Mrs. Hackl) slides. interesting. creative way. Correct # of slides. PowerPoint No transitions/animations were Very few transitions/animations Smooth transitions/animations Transitions/Animations are Slide Transitions & used. are used and/or they distract are used on most slides. smooth & interesting. Animations from the presentation. Transitions/Animations enhance (Mrs. Hackl) the presentation. Student did not include the 3 Student completed bibliography Student completed bibliography Student completed bibliography types of sources or correct with omitted source types or containing all 3 source types, in containing all 3 source types, in Citation of Sources format (MLA 8th ed.) in their without correct formatting of correct format, with only minor correct format, with no errors. (Ms. Randall) bibliography. citations. errors. Content is inaccurate and Content is questionable and Content is accurate but some Content is accurate and Content information is not presented in a information is not presented in a information is not presented in a information is presented in a (Mr. Brown) logical order, making it difficult to logical order, making it difficult to logical order, but is still generally logical order. follow. follow. easy to follow. Many spelling errors and/or text Some spelling errors. Some Few spelling errors. Few grammar No spelling errors. No grammar Mechanics is copied. grammar errors. Most of text is in errors. Text is in student’s own errors. Text is in student's own (Ms. Moore) student’s own words. words. words. Extra Credit: Overall Grade: (80) Comments: List of Famous Scientists and Mathematicians 20. Archimedes – Drew Pacholke 21. Dorothy Hodgkin – Ethan Byun 1. Albert Einstein – Mackenzie Acker 22. Michael Faraday –Sydney Sherill 2. Isaac Newton – Graycie Strott 23. Louis Pasteur – Sofia Jones 3. Galileo Galilei – Kerry Donahue 24. Joseph Lister – Abbie Hiatt 4. Leonardo Fibonacci - Andrew Calkins 25. John Dalton- Alice Pulliam 5. Pythagoras – Cora Ankerson 26. Rosalind Franklin- Grace Gerber 6. Blaise Pascal – Stella Ropko 27. Leonardo Euclid – Charlie Wall 7. Thomas Edison – Sidney Nguyen 28. Stephen Hawking – Joseph Lahey 8. Graham Bell – Danny Smith 29. Dorothy Vaughn – Will Passwater 9. Samuel Morse – Lucy MacDonald 30. Nikola Tesla- Ella Vu 10. Orville and Wilbur Wright – Madi Felts 11. Benjamin Franklin - Caycee Wilson 31. David Bernoulli 32. Edmond Halley 12. James Prescott Joule -Jack Williams 13. Edward Jenner – Madeline Acker 14. Katherine Johnson – Lillian Brouillette 15. Patricia Bath- Sophie Myrick 16. Marie Curie – Lucy Garner 17. Jane Goodall – Tate Kennedy 18. Jocelyn Bell – Mark Temples 19. Edwin Hubble – Charlie Schoen .