Women of Science Internet Activity Directions: Click on the links to go to a web site that has information about the woman mentioned. 1. How did Rosalind Franklin contribute to the discovery of DNA's structure?
2. Name the field of science Ruth Patrick founded.
How would she gauge water quality?
What is the Patrick Principle?
3. Annette Frances Braun collected Microlepidoptera for decades. What is a common name for Microlepidoptera?
Why would a scientist collect species they are studying?
How does this impact the species?
4. Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton founded a society that helped her efforts to preserve ...
Name the society she founded. 5. Biologist, Rachel Carson, wrote an important book that warned of environmental pollution. Name the book.
Use your online research skills to learn: What was the chemical identified in Carson's book?
How was it causing damage?
Chapter One of the her book is powerful because...
Offline: Does your school's library have the book?
6. How did Marie Curie impact science?
7. Stephanie Kwolek discovered what substance?
How is this substance important?
She said, "You have to be inquisitive about things. You have to have an open mind." 8. In 1849, Elizabeth Blackell was the first woman to graduate from a U.S. medical school.
Should the government seek to change these numbers? Why?
9. She
discovered a celestial body. She asked her students, "Did you
learn that from a book or did you observe it yourself?" When did she make the discovery?
What did she discover?
10. Naomi
Halas is a pioneering nanotechnologist. Consider her research.
11. Jill Tarter co-founded SETI. Her quest is ...
12. Bonnie Bassler discovered something very important about bacteria. What did she discover?
How could her discovery change medicine?
13. Dr. S. Josephine Baker's contributions to medicine have impacted your life. How?
14. Describe the role Katherine Johnson played in space exploration.
15. Mary Anning can claim several firsts in what field of science?
Her first discovery was at age 12. She found the first Ichthyosaurus.
Research Challenge: Use your favorite search engine to find the answers. * Name 3 women who are Nobel Prize Laureates.
Select one. Write a brief biography about her.
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