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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Inventors & Inventions From the 1700s

For Students 3rd - 6th
Use this site to learn more about early inventors and inventions from the 18th century. This web page offers text and images on various inventors and their inventions. You can also access information about inventors and inventions from...
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: Highmark Renewables

For Students 9th - 10th
Can you recover usable bio gas from cow manure? Read about Highmark Renewables and how they have invented the 'Integrated Manure Utilization System' to do just that!
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Smithsonian Institution

Lemelson Center: Invention at Play

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this mind challenging and creative site, you will learn how play and inventiveness are related. Hear inventors' stories, set your own inventive thinking in motion, and see video commentaries about the nature of play and whether or not...
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A&E Television

History.com: Inventions & Science

For Students 9th - 10th
Inventions from the telephone to the Model T and the computer have defined human history, and inventors like Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney and Alexander Graham Bell have transformed our society.
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Smithsonian Institution

Lemelson Center: Thomas Edison's Inventive Life

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a complete resource for learning about Edison's life, his inventions, and electricity. If you like experimenting, there are instructions included for how to make your own light bulb. Good photos.
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Teachnology

Teachnology: Inventors Teaching Theme

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A number of worksheets and lessons on inventors and inventing are available here to non-subscribers. There are also many links to other sites with additional materials, including to biographies of well known inventors.
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Teachnology

Teachnology: Inventors Teaching Theme

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A number of worksheets and lessons on inventors and inventing are available here to non-subscribers. There are also many links to other sites with additional materials, including to biographies of well known inventors.
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abcteach

Abcteach: Inventors and Inventions

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Find several scientific inventors and inventions with activities for students in primary grades through middle school. One lesson in particular integrates technology by focusing on the invention of the...
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: Sectors of Discovery

For Students 9th - 10th
The 11 Sectors of Discovery have been highlighted, with significant inventions by Albertan's highlighted in each category.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: The Inventors

For Students 9th - 10th
Who are some of Alberta's significant persons in the area of inventions? This site by the Heritage Community Foundation provides categories, such as Agriculture, Transportation, Health, Home, and Sports, in which famous Alberta inventors...
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: The Inventions

For Students 9th - 10th
What are some of the key inventions by Albertans? This site by the Heritage Community Foundation highlights many Albertan's significant inventions and has categorized them to make it accessible for learners.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: Dr. Jacqueline Shan & Dr. Peter Pang

For Students 9th - 10th
CV Technologies,an Edmonton biotech company founded by Dr. Shan who co-invented "Cold-Fx" and is highlighted on this site by the Heritage Community Foundation.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: James Gibbons

For Students 9th - 10th
James Gibbons' invention of the "Grizzly Screen" and his biography are highlighted on this site by the Heritage Community Foundation.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: Dave Hygaard

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the 'Arctic Chiller Water Bottle'--an invention from a Sherwood Park, Alberta, sandwich maker!
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: Earl and Harold Kirchner

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the "Kirchner Haysweep", invented by Earl and Harold Kirchner who were farmers near Tilley, Alberta in the 1930s.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: Edward Jordan

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore Edward Jordan and his invention of the "Peak Limiter" which solved two common problems found in broadcast studios--sibilant "s" and the vocal tics of high-pitched voices.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: Jack Stothart and Howard Fredeen

For Students 9th - 10th
What is the only breed of farm livestock to originate in Canada? Learn about Jack Stothart and Howard Fredeen and their development of the Lacombe swine.
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Other

African American Inventors and Inventions: Elijah Mc Coy the Real Mc Coy

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief biography of Elijah McCoy and a description of one of his inventions that made factory machinery run smoothly.
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Inventors and Inventions

For Students 5th - 8th
The industrial revolution in America spawned the inventions of many inventors, who improved technology in many different areas. See how transportation, agriculture, and communications were transformed because of these inventions.
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South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All Media: Nasa: The Invention Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive timeline of notable inventions and inventors from the 19th century to the present.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Inventing Modern America: Games

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are challenged to a five-question quiz about when certain objects are invented.
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Smithsonian Institution

Lemelson Center: Kevlar Inventor

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a biography of Stephanie Kwolek, the inventor of Kevlar.
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: A History of Wonderful Inventions by Henry G. Bohn

For Students 5th - 8th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book A History of Wonderful Inventions by Henry G. Bohn(1861), a history of inventors and inventions such as the compass, gunpowder, clocks, printing, and more.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: You, Too, Can Be an Inventor!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
How have inventions changed the world? This unit focuses on the importance, the process and the creativity involved in inventing. Through the study of inventions and inventors, students learn how inventions are created and the...

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