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Tools, Technologies and Inventions through the years
5th graders will gain an understanding of how, what, and why people invent tools. This PowerPoint provides a complete description of what tools are, types of tools, why we make tools and what impact they have had on society. There are...
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Inventions
Use this lesson plan to discuss inventions that have changed your class's world and have impacted society. Middle schoolers investigate important inventions of their time and design an invention in a simulated business atmosphere. Modify...
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The History of Inventions
With the help from an interactive timeline, scholars discover the time and order in which inventions came to be—popular items from eyeglasses to the compact disc.
World Intellectual Property Organization
Learn from the Past, Create the Future: Inventions and Patents
3D printers, selfie sticks, smart watches. GPS, self-driving cars, YouTube. Imagine life without inventions. Believe it or not, these items were all invented in the last 10 years. Inventions, and the inventors responsible for them,...
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Inventions in Everyday Life
Students identify and solve problems as they modify the design of an everyday household item. They gather and analyze information and work in collaborative teams to create a design plan for a new product.
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Summarizing Notes: Planning a Graphic Novelette, Part III: The Invention of Television
How did the television change people's lives? Learners consider the question as they complete their storyboards about the invention of the TV, adding visual elements along the way. Then, they participate in a peer review to offer and...
Biology Corner
Technology and Inventions Project
Technology—what exactly is it? Find out with a project designed to inspire the inner inventor in us all. The activity begins with a captivating podcast and a search of multiple websites that display different inventions and technology,...
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Inventions: The Impact
Students recognize that inventions are developed to fill a need.In this inventions lesson plan, students become familiar with the inventing process and create simple inventions. Students complete a worksheet about their inventions.
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Amazing Inventions 3
In this inventions worksheet, students are given a list of inventions that they are to write in order of which was invented first to last. Students put 10 inventions in order.
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A Great Invention
Try out a writing prompt that is great for a warm-up or an in-depth research project! Have kids describe an important invention and trace its development over the years. Use the writing prompt in a language arts class, social studies...
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Ben Franklin's Inventions
Students discover the life of Benjamin Franklin by studying his inventions. In this biography activity, students identify the inventions of Benjamin Franklin and their impact on society today. Students create a commercial in...
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Learning About Inventions
This site contains a variety of worksheets and activities to supplement the on-line problem-based learning activity about how imagination and how inventions are created. TheWright Brothers are used as a case study. The links and...
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A Survey of Thomas Edison's Inventions
Learners complete a web survey for Thomas Edison's inventions. For this Thomas Edison lesson, students visit the websites to learn about the inventions of Thomas Edison.
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Inventions: The Impact
Students understand that inventions fulfill a need. In this inventions lesson plan, students create simple designs of inventions that fill a need and understand the value of how inventions help society.
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Innovative Inventions
Help your scholars get a grasp on the chronology of the Industrial Revolution with this "Innovative Inventions" worksheet. They discover what year various items were invented, and then create a timeline placing each invention and...
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Invention Acrostic Poem
In this creative writing worksheet, learners write an acrostic poem using the letters in the word INVENTION. Students create a 9 line poem.
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Summarizing Notes: Planning a Graphic Novelette Part 1: The Invention of Television
What's the story? Learners create the first of four storyboards about the invention of the television, incorporating narrative techniques and descriptive details. Next, they offer and receive feedback by participating in a peer critique...
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret: Novel Study
If the walls could talk, you might hear Hugo from The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Hugo lives in the walls of a train stations in Paris. Scholars read and complete worksheet activities as they discover Hugo's secrets. They show their...
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Test Your Research Skills - Amazing Inventions
In this research skills activity, learners will look up the name of the inventor and the date each item was invented. There are 25 items to research.
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Inventions Word Chop Worksheet
For this inventions worksheet, students put together word parts that represent different inventions. Students put together word parts for 9 inventions.
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Reading Comprehension Worksheet: Inventions
In this inventions worksheet, learners read a passage that describes the invention of the electromagnetic telegraph by Samuel Morse. Students answer 4 questions about the text.
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Inventions
In this inventors learning exercise, students read a list of 25 items and write the inventors and date of each invention. Items include a bicycle, aspirin, concrete, and Coca Cola.
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Inventions Group Creative Writing
In this writing activity, students write a short story in groups using inventions vocabulary. Students have 9 words to use and 25 minutes to write.
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Creative Writing Prompt - New Inventions
In this creative writing worksheet, students pretend they are writing and illustrating an article for "New Inventions Magazine." They label the new weekly invention, draw it and write an entry about it.
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