LFO Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 184
Pullout Box – The Nobel Prize
Have the students read the pullout box and find out about the Nobel Prizes that Marie Curie
received. Have them go to the website and find out more information. Every student can
bring in one thing that he or she found interesting.
If you don’t have Internet access, you can share the following information with them.
Marie Curie and the Nobel Prize
Marie Curie was born in Poland in 1867. Her father was a physics and math teacher. Women
were not allowed to study at university in Poland, so she went to the Sorbonne in Paris. Like
her father Marie studied math and physics. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize
and the only woman to win the prize in two different fields (in physics in 1903 and in
chemistry in 1911). Marie’s husband Pierre was also a scientist, he shared the Nobel Prize
with Marie in 1903. Their daughter Irene followed in Marie’s footsteps, winning the Nobel
Prize in Chemistry in 1935.
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Post Reading
6. Let’s Answer!
Have the students answer the questions in their notebooks.
Answers:
1. They save people. They have X-ray machines in them.
2. a. To make big X-ray machines for hospitals
b. To make X-ray cars to bring to small towns
3. a. In small towns
b. In hospitals
4. False. ‘and around the world’
AI: Students locate
relevant information
for a specific purpose.
Fact Check
Have the students fill in the Fact Check in their notebooks.
Answers:
Marie Curie got her first Nobel Prize in 1903. She was the first woman to get a Nobel Prize.
7. Word Workout!
Have the students write the correct word to complete the sentences in their notebooks.
Encourage them to copy the entire sentence.
Answers:
1. a
2. b
3. b
4. a
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