Black History Month Project Due February 22, 2012
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- Written Component (typed): 70 points 1. Cover Page – 5 points
- STEM Connection (1/2 page) – 15 points
- Technology, Visual, and Oral Components: 25 points 1. Visual/Poster – 15 points
- Presentation – 10 points
- Prominent African Americans in STEM Fields
- Directions: Choose three people that you would like to complete your project on and present them to your teacher. They will assign you with one person
| Black History Month Project
Due February 22, 2012 To Celebrate Black History Month, students will complete a biography STEM project on a prominent African American in STEM. Students will choose and submit three people that they might like to do a project on and will be assigned one of those people by the teacher. Students will include the following components in their project:
Include a title, the date, your name, and the name of your teacher. 2. Table of Contents- 5 points A detailed page of what is included in your written component. 3. Biography (1 page) – 30 points Include a brief history of the individual, birth and death dates, their personal and professional background, and their accomplishments. 4. STEM Connection (1/2 page) – 15 points Tells how your individual is related to STEM. You should include how they have contributed to or changed areas related to STEM. 5. Personal Connection (1/2 Page) – 15 points Tells how you personally connect to this individual and how studying about them has changed or affected the way you think about your own STEM education at Morehead and beyond. Technology, Visual, and Oral Components: 25 points 1. Visual/Poster – 15 points Accurately and neatly displaying information and images about your individual. Key information from your written component should be shared on this poster. OR
At least 3 PowerPoint slides with an image of the person, their name and career, and how they are related to STEM. Your name and classroom teacher should also be included. 2. Presentation – 10 points The ability to give an oral presentation is an important part of any job. Students should be prepared to present about their individual. Index cards or other notes are allowed. EXTRA CREDIT – 5 points Students are encouraged to dress up in a similar way to their individual. They will receive extra credit for dressing the part for their presentation. Prominent African Americans in STEM Fields: Albert Antoine - Chemist & Chemistry Professor Wanda Austin - Aeronautical Engineer Gibor Basri Clayton Bates, Jr. - Physicist & Engineer Robert Bragg Legand Burge George Campbell, Jr. - Scientist & Educator George Carruthers - Astrophysicist Robert Church - Agriculturalist James Collier - Engineer & Educator Edwin Cooper - Biologist S. Allen Counter - Neurophysiologist Darnell Diggs - Research Physicist Robert Dorsey - Engineer Julian M. Earls - NASA Government Official Lloyd Ferguson - Chemist Krishna Foster - Chemist Ralph Gardner-Chavis - Chemist Larry Gladney - Research Physicist & Educator Col. Frederick D. Gregory, Sr. - Astronaut \& NASA Government Official John Hall - Chemist Marc Hannah Tyrone Hayes J. K. Haynes - Biologist \& Academic Administrator Ayanna Howard - Electrical Engineer Shirley Ann Jackson - Physicist & University President Renaldo Jensen - Aerospace Engineer Clifford Johnson - Physicist George Jones Alvin Kennedy - Chemist, Chemistry Professor Kevin Kornegay - Electrical Engineer William Lester, Jr. - Chemistry Professor William Lupton - Computer Scientist, Computer Science Professor Walter Massey - Physicist & College President Samuel Massie - Organic Chemist Ronald E. Mickens - Professor & Researcher Frederick Oliver - Physicist, Physics Professor Waverly J. Person - Geophysicist & Seismologist Chrystine Ramsey Shack - Document Custodian Carl Spight - Physicist James H. Stith - Physicist, Physics Professor Welton Taylor - Bacteriologist Julius Taylor - Physicist, Physics Professor Isiah M. Warner - Chemistry Professor Warren M. Washington - Atmospheric Scientist John Watson Herman B. White - Physicist Luther Williams Bobby L. Wilson - Environmental Chemist & Educator Benjamin Banneker – Mathematics Evelyn Boyd Granville – Mathematics Directions: Choose three people that you would like to complete your project on and present them to your teacher. They will assign you with one person Directory: file -> view view -> Stage I established Goals view -> Abolition and Women’s Rights in Antebellum America Abolitionism (pp. 344-354) view -> Questions: Why did they call for ending slavery? view -> Group 3b dbq project: 19 view -> The British West Indies were islands that were colonized by Great Britain, stretching across the Caribbean from Jamaica through the Lesser Antilles to British Guiana view -> Secretary of the Treasury Samuel Chase sought to fund the Union war effort by doing all of the following view -> Abolition: the action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution Download 11.38 Kb. Share with your friends:
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