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9781575251134

Plays of Exploration and Discovery for Children, Grades 4-6

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  • ISBN13:

    9781575251134

  • ISBN10:

    1575251132

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-10-01
  • Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc
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Summary

Presents twelve original plays that depict important moments of discovery in science and geography by such people as Copernicus, Marie Curie, Benjamin Franklin, Amerigo Vespucci, and Florence Nightingale.

Table of Contents

Mothers and Daughters of Invention: 4,000 Years of Women in Science
1(14)
Counting, from Quipu to Googol
15(14)
``Constellations Then Arise'': Astronomy in the Age of Copernicus
29(14)
Around the World with Nellie Bly
43(22)
Marking Time: Clocks and Calendars through the Centuries
65(14)
Isaac Newton's Poetry of the Rainbow
79(8)
Naming the Unnamed: The Strange Saga of Amerigo Vespucci
87(12)
Everyday Science in Ben Franklin's America
99(12)
``Lady of the Lamp'': Florence Nightingale, Founder of Modern Nursing
111(12)
Edward Jenner and the Gossip of Milkmaids
123(12)
Anthroplogy, the Science of Us
135(10)
Geegaws and Doohickeys: Indispensable Inventions and Their Forgotten Inventors
145

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