The world of science
Lessons for 11th grade students.
Introduction
Lessons 1-2 "What science can do"
Write about a normal day for someone in 2050.
(see ex. 6, page 89)
Additional resources:
(Как можно представить себе дом будущего? Как он будет выглядеть? Какими современными техническими приспособлениями он будет наполнен? Где посмотреть видео на тему «Дом будущего»?)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2007/11..._the_future.htm - here's a look at what scientists are working on today to bring into your homes tomorrow.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8046659.stm — a video about Microsoft's «future home» - how the company plans to incorporate technology into more areas of life
http://i.abcnews.com/WN/SmartHome/story?id...9570&page=1 - what will our future lifestyle look like
Lessons 3-4 "What is science"?
Do you know the answer?
If yes, how can you prove that your answer is right?
If no, how can you find the answer now, in the classroom?
Read a text about how to test a hypothesis, do experiments.
Write your own report on the experiment you did. (see ex. 5a, page 92)
Prepare presentations for the Student Science Conference.
Additional resources:
(Как строится научное исследование? Какие этапы оно проходит?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research#Scientific_research - encyclopaedia entry about scientific research and its stages
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/mentoring/pr...ic_method.shtml — steps of the scientific method
http://www.experiment-resources.com/steps-...fic-method.html — what are the steps of a scientific research
http://www.experiment-resources.com/ - a website about the scientific method, research and experiments
Lessons 5-6 "Why do people become scientists"?
You should write an essay "Why a scientific career is attractive/ not attractive to me".
Do the projects about some scientists and inventors.
Additional resources:
(Где прочитать биографическую информацию об ученых: И.Ньютоне, Г.Галлилее, Г.Менделе, Дж.Максвелле? Кто из россиян или жителей бывшего Советского Союза становился лауреатом Нобелевской премии?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton - encyclopaedia entry about Isaac Newton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei - encyclopaedia entry about Galileo Galilei
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Mendel - encyclopaedia entry about Gregor Mendel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell - encyclopaedia entry about James Maxwell
http://hrono.ru/biograf/bio_we/vernadski_vi.php- article about V. Vernadsky
http://www.kommersant.com/p-155/r_484/Nobe..._Russia_(USSR)/ - Nobel Prize Winners with connections to Russia (USSR)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel...ates_by_country — list of Nobel laureates by country
http://www.altiusdirectory.com/Society/nob...ers-russia.html — Nobel Prize Winners from Russia by branch of knowledge
Lessons 7-8 "Famous Russian scientists"
Dmitry Mendeleyev and his periodic system of elements.
M. Lomonosov and his contribution to literature, education, science.
You'll learn about achievements of our great scientists who did a lot for the glory of Russia.
Do the task:
Read the passage about the history of some research in physics. Fill the gaps with the correct form of the words in capital letters. There is an example (B0) at the beginning. (Transformation)
By the mid-30s a considerable amount of research
[B0] had been done by scientists A. Einstein, N. Bohr,DO
M. Sklodowska-Curie and others. In 1932 a special group of nuclear researchers headed by A. Ioffe [B2]____________________ at the LeningradORGANISE
Physics and Engineering Institute. By 1935 the firstEuropean accelerator[B3]__________________ inTEST
Leningrad. In 1939 Y.Khariton and Y.Zeldovich theoretically [B4]__________________ the possibility ofPROVE
nuclear fission which [B5]___________________ byADVANCE
Y.Frenkel in 1936. By 1946 the first experimental Nuclear reactor [B6]_______________in the SovietBUILD
Union. A Number if Soviet scientists, such as I. Tamm, I. Frank and P.Cherenkov[B7]___________________AWARD
The Nobel Prize for the outstanding discoveries that [B8]_____________________ in atomic physics.MAKE
Lessons 9-10 Project "A Student Science Conference"
Additional resources:
http://www.myshared.ru/slide/67449/ - how to prepare to a project's protection
http://office.microsoft.com/ru-ru/powerpoint-help/HA010206711.aspx - how to make a presentation
https://sites.google.com/site/mediacenternn/setevye-servisy-veb-2-0 - Web 2.0 services