Summary
“Be a Field Scientist!” is a short SciShow Kids science video for the K–5 classroom. It tells the story of a real scientist and what they discovered. Quick to drop into a science lesson, a center, or a few spare minutes before the bell.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
This video tells the story of a real scientist and what they discovered.
- Who is the scientist in this video, and what did they study?
- What question were they trying to answer?
- How did their work help other people?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: scientist, discovery, question, experiment.
Try it: Think of a question you have about the world and write down how you might investigate it.