Cara Carroll

Inventors & Inventions

This past week we started wrapping up our study on Inventors & Inventions in Science/Social Studies.  I guess I underestimated the interest my kids would have in the subject because they were SO into it!!  We started by learning about a few very important inventors…Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and The Wright Brothers.  We made a little anchor chart for the kids to refer to throughout our little unit of study. inventors After we learned about each inventor, I had the kids add to their “Inventors and their Inventions” notebook.  {click the pic to download} inventors I forgot to take pics, but after we studied Alexander Graham Bell, we made tin can phones.  We asked parents for clean can donations.  The kids got to experiment with the phones to see if they really worked…and they did!!  They LOVED this activity!! When we learned about Thomas Edison, we talked about what life would be like if there were no light.  I had the kids do some creative writing using the prompt, “If there were no light…”.  The responses were hilarious!!  I had them add their writing to their science notebooks. After we learned about the Wright Brothers, the kids made paper airplanes and tested them out to see which flew the furthest, fastest, longest, etc.  It didn’t surprise me that they loved that the most! The kids were so interested in inventors and inventions that they wanted to research a lot of inventions that we’re using today…toilets, cars, pianos, microwaves, etc.  We brainstormed a HUGE list of things that we wanted to learn more about and we talked about SMART researching on the Internet…always research with a parent!!!!  I had to STOP dead in my tracks when we were researching more info about the toilet.  In BIG bold letters, one of the sites said that Thomas CRAPPER was the inventor of the toilet.  Now, while this is sorta true, I didn’t think the parents would really enjoy the idea of me using the word “Crapper” in my classroom.  Anyhow, we added these inventors and their inventions to our anchor chart so that we could use the info when we learn about timelines this week. Finally, as our culminating activity, I had the kids make up their own inventions.  Their job was to invent something that would make life easier.  They had to draw their inventions and write about them and then present them to the class.  I was SO super impressed!!! inventors1inventors2inventors3inventors4inventors5inventors6inventors7 Now it’s on to past, present, future and TIMELINES!! coincollectionfreebie Click on the pic for your freebie and head on over to TpT to grab 18 more games & hands-on activities 🙂

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  2. Gladys says

    Oh. my. gosh!! I absolutely LOVE your inventors and inventions unit! We will be learning about this soon…what a great resource you have provided! Thanks!

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  5. Takara says

    I love love love this inventors activity!!! Thank you so much for this, I've been thinking all weekend about what my students were going to focus on for Black History and this is IT! I too would love a copy of the light bulb printable.

    Thanks so much

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  11. Sass Class says

    The coin unit is the best one I have EVER purchased. Every activity is clear, concise, not too cute, and doesn't require tons of color copying and laminating. Every page is useful!!!

    I too would love the light bulb download. Inventors. . .here we come.

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  13. Kim @ It's a Crafty Life says

    I would love to know how your experience on Teachers Pay Teachers has been. I signed up for an account long ago, but never put anything on there. Do you get many orders? Do you think they come mostly through your blog, or are there a lot of people who search TPT?

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  14. Mrs. Graham says

    I tried downloading your inventors unit, but I just see blank pages on Google. Did you remove the unit? (Sorry I'm late. I'm just now catching up on my blog reading.)
    Thanks for sharing your creative ideas.

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  15. Mrs. Graham says

    Never mind. I had a problem with Google Docs. I quit and then signed back in and everything worked fine. Ahh, technology is great except when it doesn't do what you want! Thanks for the unit.

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  19. Nicole says

    I would also love a copy of the light bulb worksheet. I'm teaching about inventors right now during summer school and was planning on having the kids write about their own inventions next week. This would be so perfect! Thanks!

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  20. Miss C says

    I love the idea of creating their own inventions! Do you have the template for the lightbulb and bubble somewhere? I would love to use it with my 4th graders!

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