Hello, my dear friend, I am Galileo Galilei, astronomer, mathematician, physicist and philosopher. I was born in Italy in the XVI century and died in the XVII century.
Did you know that I am the inventor of the telescope and the thermometer? Do you want to know more about my life and my work?... Follow me.
Go to my biography at Wikipedia and look for some information to help me complete my passport:
You can ask your teacher for the passport or you can design a new one.
And use one of my portraits that you will find here, in the Galileo Project webpage, and fix it in my passport:
Second stepIn the Galileo Project webpage look for a timeline of Europe. Choose important facts occurred during my life and write them down in your own timeline. Who famous writer was born the same year as me? Who important artist and who famous reformer were born also the same year? What important invent did I improve just 400 years ago and what was I doing in December that year? Who was the scientist that was born the year I died, as if I had passed him the baton?....
Third stepIn the page of Galileo Project choose one of the instruments I have invented, draw it and explain:
¨ what it is:
¨ when it was invented:
¨ a description of the object:
¨ what it is used for:
¨ how it works:
¨ add a drawing of it.
Final stepDesign a poster. In your poster you have to include:
¨ Galileo’s passport (the one downloaded from this page or another one designed by you),
¨ Europe Timeline,
¨ an invention, as explained in the third step,
¨ and you may include a map of Italy in Modern times (you will find one in the Galileo Project webpage, section “Library/maps”.
Good work!!
Your friend,
