What does a scientist look like?

Focus Question:

What does a scientist look like? 

Prediction/Hypothesis:

I think a scientist is someone who explores and investigates the world around them. This doesn't mean that they have to be in a laboratory or inside an office. Scientist can work outside with plants, animals, rocks, and many other specimens as well. 

- Get with a partner and make a prediction about what you think your partner's scientist will look like after they explain their predictions to you. 

Planning:

Paper, pencil

Students will get with a partner to share with one another what their idea of a scientist is. The students will then draw what their idea of a scientist is and explain what they are doing in the picture. 

Data: 

(Describing what a scientist looks like to them on their drawings) Details within each students drawing that makes their scientist unique. 

Claims and evidence:

Scientist can be anyone who is interested in learning more about the world around them. 

Conclusion:

In this investigation, I (we) learned that when most people think of a scientist, they think of an old man in a lab coat working in a laboratory but this is just a stereotype. My hypothesis was correct because a scientist can work with a number of different subjects not just one needing to be studied in a laboratory. 

Questions:

 Compare your scientist with your partners drawing. What about your drawings are alike? What makes them different?