1. Inventors and their Inventions
Introduction to research

2. Today you will… Begin to research your chosen inventor.
You will fill out the attached worksheets.
You will be able to answer the following guiding questions:
What made your inventor famous?
How did the invention change our lives?

3. Please get your invention research paper ready
Please get your invention research paper ready! You will need that to guide your research!

4. Your team responsibilities:
You will each fill out an inventor research paper. As a team use the mini laptops to research different websites to find out more about your inventor.
You can either fill our your own paper and then compare it to your team and create a final one, or you can break up the responsibilities with have each person complete one fraction of the research on each worksheet.
When you are finished with the research you will each need independently to open a word document and type your answers in to paragraphs following the guide on our wiki.

5. Did you pick an inventor?!? If no, here are some ideas…
Thomas Edison
Joseph Gayetty
George Ferris
Elias Howe
Frank Henry Fleer
Edwin Binney & Harold Smith
Richard Drew
Wilhelm von Roentgen
Earle Dickson
Henry Ford
The list goes on, and on, and on…

6. If yes…follow the steps below!
Begin researching your inventor to find out what they invented.
Below are a list of websites for you to search:
Click hall of fame and then search - type the name of the inventor.
This has streaming videos that you can research once you have chosen your inventor.
This site has a list of additional inventors to search through.
This site has a list of inventors and their year of birth.
This site has a great list of inventors with interesting facts!
This site has a list of A-Z inventions.
This site has a list of A-Z inventors. Search by last name.

7. Now that the research is started and almost finished…
Go back to the main wiki with directions on creating your word document to type your research.