INVENTIONS & INVENTORS THAT SHAPED AMERICA

INVENTIONS & INVENTORS THAT SHAPED AMERICA

RESOURCES FOR TEACHING UPPER ELEMENTARY GRADE LEVELS

G. W. Ferris

Stephanie Kwolek

Elijah Macoy

Thomas Alva Edison

Dr. Patricia Bath

Victor Ochoa

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The Haudenosaunee

INVENTIONS & INVENTORS THAT SHAPED AMERICA

Table of Contents:

Inventors and Inventions........................................................................3 For Kids ....................................................................................................4 Lessons ....................................................................................................5 Invention Contests ..................................................................................6 Literature ..................................................................................................7 Importance of Play..................................................................................8 Primary Source Documents ..................................................................9 Timelines ..................................................................................................10 Inspiring Websites ..................................................................................11 Essential Questions ................................................................................12 Vocabulary ..............................................................................................13

Photos on cover pulled from the following websites:

"I WANT TO PUT A DING IN THE UNIVERSE."--STEVE JOBS

Inventors and Inventions:

Famous and Not So Famous Inventors

Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison National Park

Multiple Inventions and Inventors

Mutlicultural Resource Center for Inventors

National Inventors Hall of Fame

African American Inventors

Women Inventors

Latino Inventors

Native Americans Inventors

Steve Jobs

"I DO NOT THINK THERE IS ANY THRILL THAT CAN GO THROUGH THE HUMAN HEART LIKE THAT FELT BY THE INVENTOR AS HE SEES SOME CREATION OF THE BRAIN UNFOLDING TO SUCCESS... "

--NIKOLA TESLA, ALTERNATING CURRENT

For Kids:

Library of Congress ? Online activities and information on historical inventions

Bill Nye the Science Guy

What in the World is that? Ingenious Inventions Throughout History cience/non_flash.html ? An interactive game that incorporates primary source documents ? Inventions include: submarine, ornithopter, airphibian, battery radio, cotton gin, reaper, gramophone, electron microscope, steam engine, carpet cleaner, telephone, telecommunication, corn detasseler, punched card sorter, turbine water wheel, snow gauge

InventNow ? Includes a gallery of kid inventors

Camp Invention ? Summer day camp for kids sponsored by the National Inventor's Hall of Fame

Inventive Kids ? Interactive, inspires kids to invent ? Includes teacher resources

National Gallery for America's Young Inventors

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Kids' Pages

"MAN IS A SHREWD INVENTOR, AND IS EVER TAKING THE HINT OF A NEW MACHINE FROM HIS OWN STRUCTURE, ADAPTING SOME SECRET OF HIS OWN ANATOMY IN IRON, WOOD, AND LEATHER, TO SOME REQUIRED FUNCTION IN THE WORK OF THE WORLD." --RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Lessons:

Create a Lesson around a field trip to the George Eastman House in Rochester

Thomas Edison For Kids (Science Netlinks)

The Invention Factory: Thomas Edison's Laboratories ()

Ready made Lesson Plan 1: Great American Inventors Using Nonfiction to Learn About Technology ()

Biographies: Creating Timelines of a Life ()

Integrating Inventions Across Content Areas ()

US History: Inventors & Entrepreneurs ()

Amazing Americans: A WebQuest

African American Inventors and Inventions ()

African American Inventors ():

The Inventor Was a Woman ()

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