Invention Project
Working alone or with a partner, you have to do a two part project.
FIRST PART:
Identify three American inventions created between 1870 and 1920. You can use the sites in the previous post to find information, you can look at the History of Invention, or look at Fact Monster Inventions, or search elsewhere.
You will need to answer these questions:
What is the invention?
Who invented it and when?
What problem were they trying to solve?
How has the invention affected your life?
You will create one poster for this part of the project.
SECOND PART:
Think of something you would like to invent. Answer these questions:
What is its name?
What does it do?
What problem does it solve?
How will it affect people’s lives?
Then make a second poster.
New Inventions Change The United States
Research three inventors and create a data set on each one.
ON YOUR OWN:
Watch this video about American inventors.
Learn about inventors.
Watch this movie about Thomas Edison and take the quizzes.
Read about Thomas Edison.
You can read more about Edison here.
Watch these early films made by Edison.
Watch this movie about transportation inventions.
Here’s a picture of the Wright Brothers’ first plane.
Play the Wright Brothers game.
Learn about technology in 1900.
Alexander Graham Bell: Early recordings played is a neat interactive from The Associated Press.
Read and answer the questions about Alexander Graham Bell.
Look at these Wright Brothers pictures.
Read and answer the questions about Thomas Edison.
WITH A PARTNER:
Copy and paste this cloze about the Wright Brothers on your Posterous blog and complete it.
Look through this invention timeline. Please write down three questions you have about one or more of the inventions.
Watch this Alexander Graham Bell movie.
Try out these Wright Brothers interactives:
SPANISH-LANGUAGE PREVIEW:
The United States Gets More Land
WITH A PARTNER:
Complete this assignment on the U.S. becoming a World Power. Get the code from Mr. Ferlazzo.
Click on “Spanish American War” and watch the movie. Then “enter the exhibit.”
Read about the purchase of Alaska.
Read about the Spanish-American War.
Read more about the Spanish-American War.
Watch these movies.
ON YOUR OWN:
Watch The World 1890. Be sure to click on the lower left hand corner so you can see the words as they are spoken.
Answer these questions for extra credit
Watch all the videos on this page.
Play the Frontier Alaska Game.
Americans Move West
Learn about the Wounded Knee Massacre.
ON YOUR OWN:
Learn about Western Railroads.
Click on this link and wait for Mr. Ferlazzo to give instructions.
Travel the Transcontinental Railroad.
Watch this movie about Chinese immigrants.
Read about Chinese workers on the railroad and answer the question on your website.
Read about Chinese Tongs and watch the video.
Learn about cattle drives. Be sure to click on the lower left hand corner so you can see the words as they are spoken.
Watch all the videos on this page.
Play this game about Westward expansion.
Learn about Western Native American Lands.
Look at the reduction of Native American lands on this map.
Look at these photos of the American West.
Look at these images of the West.
Build a Sod House.
Watch all the videos on this page.
Watch and read about the movement of the American population. Be sure to click on the lower right corner so you can see the words that are being spoken.
WITH A PARTNER:
Read The Reasons For Westward Expansion.
Read more about The West.
Complete these clozes.
Here is a picture of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.
SPANISH LANGUAGE PREVIEW:
Take notes in at least two categories: Construction of Railroads and Impact of Railroads
Reconstruction
Go to this interactive on Booker T. Washington. Just complete the movie questions. You will need the code from Mr. Ferlazzo
WITH A PARTNER:
Read about Reconstruction and answer the questions on your website.
Read more about Reconstruction and then take this quiz.
ON YOUR OWN:
Watch this slideshow on the Reconstruction era.
Watch Reconstruction Plans and the three other videos on the page.
Watch this video on Reconstruction.
Learn about how the South was governed during Reconstruction here. Click on the lower left hand corner to see the words as they are spoken.
Learn more about the South during Reconstruction.
Watch this video about Reconstruction.
Learn about sharecropping.
