Marie Curie- Chapter 13-15: Dreams and war, A Special Gift, The Final Years- (Conclusion-Final Activities)

Chapter Summary-

    Marie Recived her secound Nobel prizein Physics. A rumor is -read about Marie and she is heartbroken and her reputation in damaged. Marie continues to work. Her kidneys fail twice and she is forced to take some time off. 

     WW1 breaks about and Marie is separated from her children.She sets up x-ray transport units to help with the war efforts. She helped over 1 million people with her equipment. As the war ends, Poland is freed through the Treaty of Versailles. She continues to work with Radium and meets President Harding and President Hoover. They present her with Radium. 

    Irene continues to work with her mother, Marie. Irene  and her husband discover artificial radioactivity and are given the Nobel Prize in Physics. Three Nobel prizes in the same family-Wow!! 

    Marie dies on July 4, 1934. She was 66 and had leukemia, caused by radium exposure. She was buried next to her husband in Paris. 

What we learned from these chapters-

History and Geography- Marie Curies Daughter, Irene

History and Geography- Albert Einstein

History and Geography-The Treaty of Versailles

Science- Kidneys

                                History and Geography- Albert Einstein

Lily and Aj watched  a video about Albert Einsteins Life Story. They also completed worksheets about Einsteins life. 

History and Geography- Marie Curies Daughter, Irene

We Leaned that Maries Daughter was a scientist also. We looked about pictures of her and went on Nobelprize.org to learn more about Irene.

Science- Kidneys

The kids watched a  Short video called How do your kidneys work?. They also read a book on Hoopla. They also completed worksheets and saw a virtual reality kidney from Twinkle.com. 

 

History and Geography-The Treaty of Versailles

We Watched a video called The Treaty of Versailles From Kahn Academy. They also completed these books from twinkle.com about The Treaty of Versailles

Thank you for following our blog and reading about the activities we completed. Lily and Aj enjoyed most of the activities. This was a tough time for us because we were unable to go on any field trips at the time we read this book. (We were stuck in the house because of COVID-19) We still made the best out of our time at home and enjoyed each other’s company!