teaching resource

Famous Scientists and Inventors - Teaching Slide Deck

Updated: 25 Oct 2023

Introduce your students to the groundbreaking innovations of five famous scientists and inventors with an interactive and animated teaching slide deck.

Editable: PowerPoint, Google Slides
Pages: 1 Page
Years: 3 - 6

Curriculum

VC2S4H02

Science knowledge helps people to understand the effects of their actions
VC2S6H02

Scientific understandings, discoveries and inventions are used to inform personal and community decisions and to solve problems that directly affect people's lives
VC2S4H01

Data from observations obtained through scientific inquiry can be used to develop explanations of natural phenomena <ul> <li>exploring how farmers use soil tests to determine whether their crops are growing in ideal conditions</li> <li>investigating how Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples used observations about the conduction of heat to determine the best materials to be used as conductors and insulators in ground ovens, for example the Torres Strait Islander Kup Murri earth oven used in traditional feasting ceremonies</li> <li>recognising how food scientists use thermometers to monitor and manage the condition of food stored in refrigerators and freezers</li> <li>investigating how ecologists use food chain data to develop explanations for decline in numbers of native plants and animals such as the Richmond birdwing butterfly, and to develop strategies to increase their numbers</li> <li>exploring how hydrologists use rainfall and water-use data to explain the amount of water flowing in rivers and why this changes over time</li> </ul>
VC2S6H01

Scientific knowledge changes over time, often resulting from collaboration or by building on the work of others, and leads to advances in science <ul> <li>researching how the discovery of a biofluorescent flying squirrel led to discoveries of more fluorescent mammals, such as wombats, bilbies, echidnas and bandicoots, as scientists collaborated with other scientists across fields of science and internationally</li> <li>researching why European naturalists and scientists first thought the platypus was a fake animal, and how scientists such as those in the Australian Platypus Conservancy are collaborating in ongoing research to understand the features and behaviours of platypuses</li> <li>exploring why developing new erosion mitigation techniques such as contour banks and strip-cropping requires the collaboration of geologists, hydrologists and farmers</li> <li>researching how contemporary restorative ecology adapts and builds on the traditional ecological knowledges of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples</li> <li>researching how scientists, manufacturers and farmers collaborated to use compressed gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) in the development of fire extinguishers, planting crops and paintball</li> <li>examining why ecologists collaborate with engineers and computer scientists to develop remote sensing techniques, identify patterns in habitat change and make predictions about the survival of organisms</li> <li>constructing a timeline to show how contributions and collaborations of scientists, mathematicians, engineers and astronomers from many countries have advanced ideas about space and the solar system through development of models, gathering of evidence and, more recently, space exploration</li> </ul>

teaching resource

Famous Scientists and Inventors - Teaching Slide Deck

Updated: 25 Oct 2023

Introduce your students to the groundbreaking innovations of five famous scientists and inventors with an interactive and animated teaching slide deck.

Editable: PowerPoint, Google Slides
Pages: 1 Page
Years: 3 - 6

Introduce your students to the groundbreaking innovations of five famous scientists and inventors with an interactive and animated teaching slide deck.

Discover Inventors and Scientists Who Changed the World

We often take for granted the luxuries we have in our everyday lives: electricity, machinery, and even milk. We have these things thanks to some incredible inventors of the past. Some of the things we use regularly, some even daily, were brought to us by just a few influential innovators.

Explore Great Inventors and Inventions

Introduce your students to 5 influential scientists and inventors who changed history with their ingenious ideas. Discover the creator of the polio vaccine, the man who invented pasteurization, and the first woman to observe a comet.

This instructional slide deck will help your students organise and record their learning about these amazing inventors and scientists in an engaging, exciting way that will make them want to learn more.

The following influential scientists are part of this resource

Jonas Salk
Maria Mitchell
Louis Pasteur
Bill Gates
Cyrus McCormick

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This resource was created by Beth Hindi, a Teach Starter Collaborator.

Curriculum

VC2S4H02

Science knowledge helps people to understand the effects of their actions
VC2S6H02

Scientific understandings, discoveries and inventions are used to inform personal and community decisions and to solve problems that directly affect people's lives
VC2S4H01

Data from observations obtained through scientific inquiry can be used to develop explanations of natural phenomena <ul> <li>exploring how farmers use soil tests to determine whether their crops are growing in ideal conditions</li> <li>investigating how Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples used observations about the conduction of heat to determine the best materials to be used as conductors and insulators in ground ovens, for example the Torres Strait Islander Kup Murri earth oven used in traditional feasting ceremonies</li> <li>recognising how food scientists use thermometers to monitor and manage the condition of food stored in refrigerators and freezers</li> <li>investigating how ecologists use food chain data to develop explanations for decline in numbers of native plants and animals such as the Richmond birdwing butterfly, and to develop strategies to increase their numbers</li> <li>exploring how hydrologists use rainfall and water-use data to explain the amount of water flowing in rivers and why this changes over time</li> </ul>
VC2S6H01

Scientific knowledge changes over time, often resulting from collaboration or by building on the work of others, and leads to advances in science <ul> <li>researching how the discovery of a biofluorescent flying squirrel led to discoveries of more fluorescent mammals, such as wombats, bilbies, echidnas and bandicoots, as scientists collaborated with other scientists across fields of science and internationally</li> <li>researching why European naturalists and scientists first thought the platypus was a fake animal, and how scientists such as those in the Australian Platypus Conservancy are collaborating in ongoing research to understand the features and behaviours of platypuses</li> <li>exploring why developing new erosion mitigation techniques such as contour banks and strip-cropping requires the collaboration of geologists, hydrologists and farmers</li> <li>researching how contemporary restorative ecology adapts and builds on the traditional ecological knowledges of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples</li> <li>researching how scientists, manufacturers and farmers collaborated to use compressed gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) in the development of fire extinguishers, planting crops and paintball</li> <li>examining why ecologists collaborate with engineers and computer scientists to develop remote sensing techniques, identify patterns in habitat change and make predictions about the survival of organisms</li> <li>constructing a timeline to show how contributions and collaborations of scientists, mathematicians, engineers and astronomers from many countries have advanced ideas about space and the solar system through development of models, gathering of evidence and, more recently, space exploration</li> </ul>

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