1. Technology 6 Ms. Mahar

2. Widgets, Gizmos and Everything in-between What is one invention that you could not live without?

3. Out of Necessity Came... air conditioner airplanes aqualung automobile bar code battery burglar alarm camera computers diesel engine digital recording electricity electric generator elevator fiber optics fire extinguisher helicopter hologram hovercraft hydraulics laser light bulb magnetic levitation Morse code papermaking / recycling plastics / recycling photocopier photovoltaic cell radar radio refrigeration railroad / trains remote / radio control robots rocket smoke detector space satellites space telescope steam engine submarine telephone telescope television

4. By Mistake Came...  Fingerprinting  Microwave oven Microwave oven  Dry cleaning  Dynamite Dynamite  Vaseline  Teflon  Velcro Velcro  yo-yo yo-yo

5. Famous Inventors Orville and Wilbur Wright Karl Benz Charles Babbage Benjamin Franklin Gugliemo Marconi Theodore Maiman Alexander Bell Galilei Galileo Thomas Edison

6. Your Task Your Task 1. Research (Library and Web Resources) 2. Typed Report (MS Word) 3. Presentation (MS Power Point) 4. Graph of Survey (MS Excel) 5. Timeline (Timeliner 5.0) 6. Web Diagram (Inspiration 6.0)

7. Essential Questions What is the invention? What is the purpose? What is the invention? What is the purpose? How does the invention work? Does it require electricity? Is it portable? Cost? How does the invention work? Does it require electricity? Is it portable? Cost? Who invented the product? What was their background? Who invented the product? What was their background? Who utilizes the invention? – for what? Who utilizes the invention? – for what? When was the product first introduced? When was the product first introduced? How has the product changed over time? How has the product changed over time? How has the invention impacted the world? (environment, education, society) How has the invention impacted the world? (environment, education, society)

8. Online Research 1. Is the content accurate? (spelling, grammar, author expertise) 2. Who put the site up? (bias, who owns/sponsors the site, purpose, fact or opinion) 3. When was the site last updated? (copyright) 4. What is the domain? (.com,.edu,.gov,.mil,.org,.net) ****Just because it is on the web doesn't mean it is accurate.****

9. Important Due Dates Important Due Dates Research: Rough Draft: Survey Questionnaire Time Line: Power Point: Final Copy w/ graph: Presentations: February 11-15 February 27 March 7 March 14 March 18

10. Yo-Yo In the early 1920’s businessman Donald Duncan saw a weapon from the Philippines that could be quickly retrieved if the hunter missed

11. Velcro In the 1950’s, George de Mestral came home from a walk in the woods to find his jacket covered with cockleburs.

12. Dynamite In the mid-1800's,Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel was transporting a sensitive material in glass flasks packed in soil when one of the flasks broke

13. Microwave Oven In 1942, Percy Le Baron Spencer was working with radar equipment at Raytheon when he noticed that a candy bar had melted in his pocket.