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Math and Architecture Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students examine relationship between architecture and math, explore importance of inventions to humanity and relate math and architecture to their school and home by creating graphs, tables, and presentations showing development of...
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African-American Inventors

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Learners conduct research on a variety of African-American inventors. They choose an invention that they feel has had the greatest impact on the world today and write a short summary of the invention, its impact and the inventor's...
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Inventions

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students study invention steps and design their own invention. In this invention activity, students discuss inventions and the process of inventing. Studnets write in an inventor's journal and study various types of inventions. Students...
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George Washington Carver and the Sweet Potato

For Teachers 1st Standards
Learn about George Washington Carver's important contributions to agriculture by studying the sweet potato. First graders read about the inventor's observations and prepare sweet potato slips for the class garden. Additionally, they...
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Invent It!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners explore invention and unveiling of world's first Ferris wheel, analyze photographs and poster of first Ferris wheel, and discuss engineering achievements of Ferris wheel, including how it worked, how it was built, and its...
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Science and Technology

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students research inventions that have been created. In this historical technology lesson, students read the Harcourt Brace social studies textbook and discuss how inventors used graphs to display data. Students create a table to write...
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Inventions

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Use this lesson plan to discuss inventions that have changed your class's world and have impacted society. Middle schoolers investigate important inventions of their time and design an invention in a simulated business atmosphere. Modify...
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Techno Timeline

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students create a timeline of inventors. In this dual history/science lesson plan, students research inventors of technological products, then work in groups to create a timeline of events. The timeline may include science information...
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Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas-The Gadget War

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read The Gadget War by Betsy Duffey. They complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding inventors and inventions. Included are reading, art, math, science, writing, social studies, and library connections.
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Mr. Goldman's Good Idea

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Shopping carts are a modern convenience that many people take for granted. Make sure your pupils do not fall into that category by completing the activities in this plan. There are ideas included for language arts, social studies, math,...
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Inventors Unit Survey

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students develop and conduct a survey for their inventors unit. They create a five question survey and tally the survey results, and create a graph using Microsoft Word and Graph Club 2.0.
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Inventors Timelines

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a class timeline using the patent year for their selected inventor or invention. Using a piece of yarn, they physically create a timeline, and create and answer math word problems using the years from the timeline.
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Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders discuss how people, society, and technology change over time through a unit of integrated lessons. In these changes in society lessons, 6th graders discuss the answers to many questions about how changes effect the...
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Applied Science - Science and Math Post-Lab

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners use scientific tools. In this Applied Science lesson, students investigate the use of scientific tools to enhance observation and discovery. Learners indicate how each tool assists scientific work.
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Pumpkin Roll

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students build a machine to roll a pumpkin. In this invention lesson, students work in groups to build a machine, in the classroom, that will roll a pumpkin farther than their classmates machines. The lesson ends with a competition.
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Learning About Inventions

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
This site contains a variety of worksheets and activities to supplement the on-line problem-based learning activity about how imagination and how inventions are created. TheWright Brothers are used as a case study. The links and...
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Early Industrialization

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore early industrialization, technology, and invention. In this historical lesson plan, students participate in eleven different activities in order to understand the Industrialization of the United States. Activities...
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Broken-Heart Matching Game

For Teachers K - 12th
Students use this fun game to practice, reinforce, or apply a wide variety of skills around Valentine's Day. Each students receives half a heart with zig-zag cuts made of pink construction paper with a piece of information. Their job is...
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Invent a .....

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore inventions. In this physical science invention lesson, students work with a team to create an invention using everyday materials.
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The Art of Simple Machines

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Young scholars investigate the inventions of simple machines in our past and how they affect us today.  In this engineering lesson, students discover who Rube Goldberg was and his ideas about complicated machines performing very simple...
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Fairy Tales Unit Ideas

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students listen to children's fairy tales and watch them on a video. Afterward, they list the heroes from each story. Students write a short paragraph about a typical day for the hero. Students dress up like their character and give a...
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Exploring Special Lines

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students compare and order numbers. In this geometry instructional activity, students write equations for inequalities. They differentiate and apply concepts of triangular properties to solve problems.
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They're Everywhere! They're Everywhere!

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students gain an appreciation of the polygons and polyhedrons around them that make their world one of order and strength. They build polygons and polyhedrons, and then construct airplanes out of polygons.
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Concept: Points on a Grid

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this coordinate grid graphing worksheet, young scholars play a game of Battleship on the computer. They answer 21 questions about the coordinate grid and graphing.

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