Marie Curie Unit Study PDF

Marie Curie Unit Study:

 

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Age Group: These unit studies are intended for elementary students ages Kindergarten - 5th or 6th grades.

Each of my scientist & inventor unit studies contains educational lessons, activities and a fun lap book that your students will work on as they progress through the study. The lessons also include book reports, vocabulary, character traits of these important figures, and critical thinking skills. I currently have 7 studies in this series. These studies are geared towards grades Kindergarten-4th, but can probably be adapted for older students as well.

 

 

Marie Sklodowska-Curie was born November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland, then part of the Russian Empire. She is is a well known Polish physicist and chemist who dedicated her life to research on radioactivity. She was also the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in two fields and the only person to win in multiple sciences. Marie discovered Radium and Polonium which she named after her native country of Poland. Marie devoted her life to studying and researching uses for radium. Sadly her close research with radium caused an early death in 1934 due to radiation poisoning.

 

 

 

This study uses the Marie Curie scientists and inventors series by Mike Venezia, but students are welcome to use any other researched information they can find as well. I would highly encourage older students to do some independent research on their scientist and inventor prior to completing their final report.

In this unit students will learn all about Marie Curie, her childhood history, lifetime achievements, characteristics, as well as some of her greatest discoveries and contributions to science. Below is a sample of the Lapbook that students will create as they learn about Marie Curie. Activities for this unit include:

• All About Marie Curie
• The Atom
• Marie’s Education
• Physics
• Marie’s Diploma
• Discovered Elements
• Marie’s Characteristics
• Radium Uses
• Marie’s Unusual Death
• Vocabulary
• A Final Report

 

 

The study also includes a final report on Marie Curie for students to complete. There are several different formats of the report to accommodate varying student grade levels that might be completing the unit.