Unit 1 Great scientists讲课件.pptVIP

Homework: Read the words and preview the reading. * What do you know about great scientists? Try the quiz . Warming up 1.Which scientist discovered that objects in water are lifted up by a force that helps them float? Archimedes an ancient Greek mathematician physicist 2.Who wrote a book explaining how animals and plants developed as the environment changed? Charles Darwin British author of The Origin of Species 3.Who invented the first steam engine? Thomas Newcomen British, improved the first steam pump and turned it into a steam engine for taking water out of mines in 1712. James Watt improved it and turned it into the first modern steam engine used on the railways. 4.Who used peas to show how physical characteristics are passed from parents to their children? Gregor Mendel Czech (捷克人) 5.Who discovered radium? Marie Curie Polish and French, won two Nobel Prizes 6.Who invented the way of giving electricity to everybody in large cities? Thomas Edison an American inventor 7.Who was the painter that studied dead bodies to improve his painting of people? Leonardo da Vinci Italian artist 8.Who invented a lamp to keep miners safe underground? Sir Humphry Davy British Miniature Miners Safety Lamp 9.Who invented the earliest instrument to tell people where earthquakes happened? Zhang Heng Chinese, invented seismograph 10.Who put forward a theory about black holes? Stephen Hawking a British astronomer What are the basic qualities of the great scientists as above? Discussion intelligent, modest, wise, unselfish, determined, hard-working, confident , persistent,brave etc. 1.Find a problem:(发现问题) 2.Make up a question:(形成研究主题) 3.Think of a method:(找出研究方法) 4.Collect results:(收集材料) 5.Analyse results:(分析材料) 6.Repeat if necessary:(必要时重新分析) 7.Draw a conclusion:(得出结论) 1.Do you know about SARS? It is a kind of terrible infectious disease caused by drinking dirty water and it caused a lot of deaths in