I divided my time between courses, experimental work, and study in the library. In the evening I worked in my room, sometimes very late into the night. All that I saw and learned that was new delighted me. It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty. ... During these years of isolated work, trying little by little to find my real preferences, I finally turned towards mathematics and physics, and resolutely undertook a serious preparation for future work.(Marie Curie, who travelled from Warsaw to Paris to study in 1891)
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As you may or may not know, March is Women's History Month. This is absolutely perfect timing for us, because it gives us the opportunity to study Marie Sklodowska Curie, one of the most celebrated women in science.
During this class period you're going to complete a web quest during which you find information about her and what she contributed to the world.
Here are your directions:
You have a couple sets of questions to answer. Copy and paste all of them into a word document, then type your answers in as you find them.
The link to which you can find the answers is found above each set of questions, but feel free to venture out and find more (and possibly better!) sources.
www.aip.org/history/curie/
1. What is Marie Curie's maiden name?
2. How many siblings did she have?
3. Which two family members did she loose before she was 11 years old?
4. What did Marie work as to help raise money for both her college education and her sister's?
5. Which famous university did she perform her studies in Paris?
6. How did Marie and Pierre Curie meet?
7. What did Pierre Curie work as?
8. What degree did Marie want to complete in the University?
9. What was the mineral that Marie and Pierre worked on?
10. What was the name of the element that Marie first discovered?
http://www.chemheritage.org/classroom/chemach/atomic/curie.html
1. What was Pierre Curie Working on when he met Marie?
2. Which machine did Marie work with which caused her many health problems in her later years?
3. What were the names of the Curie's two daughters?
4. Before which World War did Marie establish radium institutes in France and Poland?
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/whm/bio/curie_m.htm
1. Could radium be obtained in large amounts at that time?
2. What was Marie Curie's thesis for her doctorate?
3. Why did she name her element polonium?
4. What was radium used for in the early stages of it's discovery?
5. What did Marie campaign for in her later years? In what council?
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95nov/curie.html
1. Which two radioactive elements did Marie Curie discover?
2. Which world prize did both Marie and Pierre Curie win? How much of the prize did they actually win?
3. What year did Marie Curie win the entire Nobel Prize?
4. What finally caused Marie Curie to die?
BONUS QUESTIONS: WRITE DOWN AT LEAST 4 REASONS WHY MARIE SKLODOWSKA CURIE IS ONE OF MS. STAWIKOWSKA'S FAVORITE SCIENTISTS!
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complete website found at:http://www.nisk.k12.ny.us/faculty/hughes/Lina%20and%20Lauren%20%28Curie%29/index.htm
