Show your students the steps to the scientific method in this unit, and then introduce them to the jobs of scientists such as physicists, chemists, botanists, zoologists and more. Conclude with a brief look at the lives of 14 famous scientists including Galileo, Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Banneker, Caroline Herschel, Mary Somerville, Thomas Alva Edison, George Washington Carver, Albert Einstein, Alexander Fleming, Willem Kolff, Patricia Bath, Sally Ride, and Mae Jemison. Students