The University of Omaha provides a cross-curricular lesson plan for 4-6th grades involving economics and language arts. "Elijah McCoy was an African-American inventor who successfully designed an automatic oil cup that may have inspired the popular phrase, 'the real McCoy.'"

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african american history

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copyright, economics lesson plan, african american inventor, elijah mccoy, university of omaha: the real mccoy, establish post offices, copyrights and patents

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)