This lesson is for Day 4 of the unit Inventions and Inventors. Students participate in constructing timelines of significant contributions in the field of communication. Class interaction follows to provide practice in interpreting the order of events.
To explore Leonardo da Vinci’s ideas about design and machines.
To introduce students to the realm and power of inventions, and help them to better recognize their impact on people and society.
There is an amazing amount of information on this site that is mainly applicable to mathematics and physics.
Students will learn the steps in the silk-making process. They will arrange sequencing cards to illustrate the steps. Later students will unravel a silkworm’s cocoon.