Hold up raw peanuts in one hand and roasted peanuts in the other hand. The teacher will ask students if anyone knows what these things are. After a student answers that they are peanuts, ask if someone can name the man who developed over 300 uses for the peanut.
Before teaching this lesson, assign a home project to investigate transportation from the past:
Talk to the oldest person you know (grandparent, neighbor) and ask him/her what transportation was like when he/she was a child. Students then prepare a project (at home) to show what they have learned about transportation from long ago. The project will be presented to the class during the course of this lesson. Possible projects include: a story, poem, song, diorama, poster.
Mind Over Matter is for Day 2 of the unit Inventions and Inventors. Students use their minds to create new devices out of everyday objects (matter). An introduction to unit vocabulary words and their meanings follows.
The student uses a variety of reference materials, including indexes, magazines, newspapers, and journals, and tools, including card catalogs and computer catalogs, to gather information for research topics.
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.
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