I am Marie Curie
From Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum · 2019
11 minK1st2nd3rdScienceSocial StudiesSocial-Emotional Learning
Summary
Yadina gives up when a science project gets messy, but meeting a young Marie Curie — the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (and the only person ever to win in two different sciences) — shows her that failing and trying again is exactly what scientists do. Covers the scientific method and what it means to be curious.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in both Physics and Chemistry.
- What does a scientist do? What makes Marie Curie's achievements special?
- Why is it OK to fail when you're trying to discover something new?
- Were there rules that made things harder for Marie Curie because she was a woman? How did she respond?
- What would you like to discover or figure out?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: scientist, Nobel Prize, experiment, curiosity, radioactivity.
Try it: Design an experiment to answer one question you have about the world. What materials would you need? What would you be testing?