Imagine That
Information dangles from the ceiling! That’s the effect when students gather information using a variety of references and create mobiles of inventions or scientific discoveries. This lesson is for Day 5 of the unit Inventions and Inventors.
More about this lesson plan:
Materials Needed: -Reference materials about technological inventions and scientific discoveries (See Extensions for link to Unit Plan for Bibliography)
-Graphic Organizer (See Attached Files), one per student
-Transparency of the Graphic Organizer (See Attached Files)
-Overhead projector
-Reference materials for modeling Steps 15-17 (See Attached Files)
-Computer with Internet access
-A pen for writing on an overhead transparency
-List of Significant Technology Inventions/Inventors and Scientific Discoveries (See Attached Files - Background information concerning the impact of the invention/discovery is provided for teacher reference.)
-Invention Mobiles (See Attached Files), one copy of each page per student and one for the teacher to use while demonstrating
-Yarn or string cut in 20 lengths, one per student and one for the teacher to use while demonstrating
-Hole punch
-Charts listing technological inventions and scientific discoveries (4-5)
-Chalkboard, dry erase board, or chart paper and appropriate writing instruments
-Student Web Lesson Max and Mavis and the Case of the Missing Inventors, Part 1: Communication (See Web Links)
-Student Web Lesson Max and Mavis and the Case of the Missing Inventors, Part 2: Technology (See Web Links)
Author: Laurie Ayers
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