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- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students appraise the qualities of successful inventors and inventions, as well as examine the ways in which the Internet supports inventors, as a springboard for designing and 'patenting' inventions that would be helpful to them in their lives. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students identify several prominent inventors of the late nineteenth century and describe what they invented. They explain the importance of inventions to the rise of industry and the changing ways of life in the United States. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students create a five page multi-media slide show after researching and writing about an inventor. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th
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Students complete an individual research project on an inventor of their choice. They assemble their research into a PowerPoint outline for the class and present their findings. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students create a database with the inventions of African-Americans. They analyze and sort the data in an appropriate fashion. They use the internet to gather their information for the database. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 6th
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Students examine the way various inventions have changed their lives. As a class, they create a timeline of the most important inventions during their lifetime and another timeline of how old they were when it was invented. Individually, they use the internet to research one inventor and write their own biography of him or her. To end the lesson, they discuss the positives and negatives of new inventions. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 4th
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Students investigate various inventors and their inventions by using primary source pictures and resources from their own school library. Emphasis is placed on meeting state standards in Literature and helping students with research skills. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 8th
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Students assess the differences between inventors and entrepreneurs. From a list of Websites they research inventors and entrepreneurs such as Heerman Lay and Ray Croc respectively. Then they investigate inventions that led to other inventions and ones that solved problems. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students develop and conduct a survey for their inventors unit. They create a five question survey and tally the survey results, and create a graph using Microsoft Word and Graph Club 2.0. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students create a class timeline using the patent year for their selected inventor or invention. Using a piece of yarn, they physically create a timeline, and create and answer math word problems using the years from the timeline. Full Review »
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