INVENTORS AND THEIR INVENTIONSIntroduction to research

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?

PLEASE GET YOUR INVENTION RESEARCH PAPER READY! YOU WILL NEED THAT TO GUIDE YOUR

RESEARCH!

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 by numbering them. (don’t forget your name)

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 FordThe list goes on, and on, and on…

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:

http://www.invent.org/ Click hall of fame and then search - type the name of the inventor.

http://my.discoveryeducation.com/ This has streaming videos that you can research once you have chosen

your inventor. http://www.buzzle.com/articles/list-of-famous-inventors.html

This site has a list of additional inventors to search through. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors

This site has a list of inventors and their year of birth. http://www.bkfk.com/inventor/inventors.asp

This site has a great list of inventors with interesting facts! http://

inventors.about.com/od/astartinventions/a/FamousInvention.htm This site has a list of A-Z inventions.

http://inventors.about.com/od/astartinventors/a/Famous_Inventor.htm This site has a list of A-Z inventors. Search by last name.