1. Inventors and their Inventions

2. Inventors/Innovators both past
The BIG Idea
Inventors/Innovators both past
and
Present
Invented the telephone
Steven Sasson
Created the first digital camera

3. Essential Question CAN YOU IMAGINE?
How would life be different if (Inventor/Innovator) never existed?
CAN YOU IMAGINE?
(watch the video on the next slide)

4. The Challenge
If the video doesn’t load. Click on this link

5. ALL INFORMATION AND RESOURCES IS AVAILABLE ON WIKI. FOLLOW
Research
ALL INFORMATION AND RESOURCES IS AVAILABLE ON WIKI. FOLLOW
THE LINK BELOW.

6. Actions/Guiding Activity
As a team you will be completing three guiding activities:
Important Inventors and Inventions
Who invented what?!?!
The Invention Today

7. Guiding Activity 1 Important Inventors and Inventions
Guiding Questions:
What items could you not live without and why are these items important to you?
What would be different today without this invention?
This guiding activity will be an introduction to the project. Students will initially work independently, before their groups are decided and created. E.Q. Why are Thomas Edison’s, Ben Franklin’s, and Alexander Graham Bell inventions an important donation to society?

8. Guiding Activity 1 (continued)
Print the following table
Fill out at least 5 items you couldn’t live without. Same with column 2.
Item you couldn’t live without
Personal importance of the item
Inventor 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

9. Guiding Activity 1 (continued)
Use the following website to discover who the inventors were of your times. Record that in the third column:
Now use this site to add 5 more inventions.
Finally, use glogster (link below) and follow the directions to complete the next step.
Then create your own glogster to answer the guiding questions.
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10. Guiding Activity 2 Who invented what?! Guiding Questions:
What made your inventor famous?
How did the invention change our lives?
After completing the introduction you have a good feeling of whom inventors are, what inventions they may have created. We are now going to take that piece to the next level. You will complete research as a group, but independently type your final paper for this activity.

11. Guiding Activity 2 (continued)
Print the following worksheet:

12. Guiding Activity 2 (continued)
With your group members follow the directions on the power point provided.
Once you have completed the power point and research worksheet open a word document.
Please use the link below to use the rubric to guide your research paper.
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13. Example/Solution

14. Guiding Activity 2 (continued)
As you write your research paper with your group please use the following guidelines:
(Paragraph 1) Should include your answers to: What was life like for your inventor? Do you know any information about their education or childhood? What are any interesting facts you found out about your inventor?
(Paragraph 2) Should include your answers to: What was your inventor famous for? What was their invention they created? What year did they create it?
(Paragraph 3) Should include your answer to: How has this invention changed our lives? What did it make easier or harder to do?

15. Example/Solution

16. Guiding Activity 2 (continued)
Now prepare a brief slide show presentation via power point to inform your peers about your inventor, their inventions, and unique facts about them.
See example Thomas Edison PowerPoint on the wiki page for a solution

17. Guiding Activity 3 The Invention Today Guiding Questions:
How do we use this invention today?
Are there any other inventions that are created because of this invention?
You should have learned about your inventor and how an invention has changed the way we live. We are now going to dig deeper and explain how your invention is used today, and if any other inventions were designed because of it. As a team you will need to decide on one of the inventions to use for this part of the project.

18. Guiding Activity 3 (continued)
As a group click on the link below:
nology.com/worksheets/graphic/mainideamap.html You only need one map per group!
Fill in this map starting with the main idea with the invention that your team has decided to focus on.
Next you can fill in the three idea bubbles with two more ways the invention is used today and use the third bubble to fill in any idea of inventions that were created because of it.

19. Guiding Activity 3 (continued)
Watch the following short video on the telephone to give you some ideas of how communication has changed.
Use a browser such as Google to research your invention.
Find information and be sure to write what you find on the map.

20. Guiding Activity 3 (continued)
Now as a group create a poster showcasing the invention you researched. You must include the following:
The information you included on your main idea map
At least 2 pictures of the invention
One drawing to show the invention in use
If you are able, include a photo of each person with the invention
Provide captions with the pictures
Provide a picture of the invention that was created because of your original invention.
Use this rubric to guide your work:

21. Proposed Solution Activity 2: Who invented what?! Guiding Questions:
What made your inventor famous? How did the invention change our lives?

22. Please view the Thomas Edison power point as a possible solution if you have done so already!