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$1.00Buy NowA Day in History – Investigation Station is a series of fun sleuthing research and writing activities based on a single event on a specific day in history! This resource focuses on the day that Thomas Edison invented a practical electric light for home use!
Students will learn about an event and be given several topics from which to choose to ‘investigate’. After some exploration, students are asked to write what they have discovered and name used sources.
So…with each lesson, students will:
▪ (Read) Learn one ‘On this Day in History’ fact.
▪ (Investigate) Take a related topic and explore it through the use of different forms of media (i.e. books, internet).
▪ (Write) Summarize and write what they have discovered. This also should include the recording of sources. -
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A Day in History – Investigation Station is a series of fun sleuthing research activities based on a single event on a specific day in history!
Students will learn about an event and be given several topics from which to choose to ‘investigate’. After some exploration, students are asked to write what they have discovered and name used sources.
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This resource will help students learn about Eli Whitney, the man, his inventions and his impact on the U.S. economy.
Unit includes…
- – Informational articles on Whitney, the cotton gin, cotton, and his economic influence
- – Worksheets to assess understanding of material
- – 10 Notebooking / Report pages
- – Answer Keys
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✏️A student-centered resource to help students learn and practice research skills, report writing, project and presentation skills.
Students will use this project-based unit to learn about and report on George Washington Carver. George Washington Carver was an American agricultural scientist and inventor. He actively promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. Apart from his work to improve the lives of farmers, Carver was also a leader in promoting environmentalism. He received numerous honors for his work, including the Spingarn Medal of the NAACP. In an era of high racial polarization, his fame reached beyond the black community. He was widely recognized and praised in the white community for his many achievements and talents. In 1941, Time magazine dubbed Carver a “Black Leonardo”.
✏️This notebooking project unit can be assigned individually or within cooperative groups. Use it within a Language Arts classroom or a Social Studies / U.S. History classroom. Very flexible and cross-curricular! After completing the written portion of this resource, you can grade it (or) assign students to do an oral and/or audio-visual presentation based on their findings/work.
✏️What is in this resource?
- Student instructions for using biographical notebooking, project pages
- Suggested research questions
- Student notebooking, project pages (includes covers, KWL, reference recording, report writing, and more)
- Teacher pages (instructions, assignment, evaluation)
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This resource will help students learn about Alexander Graham Bell, the man and his inventions. Unit includes…
- – Informational article on Bell’s life and inventions
- – Worksheets to assess understanding of material
- – List of Patents granted to Bell
- – 12 Notebooking / Report pages
- – Answer Keys
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Students will learn about the writer, inventor and statesmen, Benjamin Franklin in this informational text article. After reading, students’ reading comprehension and understanding will be assessed with 2 worksheets (multiple choice and short answer).
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This resource will teach students about the life of Samuel Morse his role in developing the telegraph. After reading the informational article, students will complete two worksheets to assess the comprehension of the material. On a third worksheet (short answer) students will be asked expanded learning and critical thinking questions. Answer keys provided.
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This resource will take students through a journey of learning...a journey learning about the Wright Brothers and the beginning of aviation while weaving lessons throughout various subjects: Art, Science, Math, Language Arts, Geography, Economics and even Health.
This 83-page resource provides detailed lesson plans, student information, student worksheets and many hands-on, engaging student activities!
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This resource will help students learn about Thomas Edison, the man, his inventions and his impact on our lives today. Unit includes…
- – Informational article on Edison
- – Timeline and list of important inventions
- – Worksheets to assess understanding of matieral
- – 14 Notebooking / Report pages
- – Make your own light bulb experiment
- – Answer Keys
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With this resource students will learn about and be tested on the life and accomplishments of Henry Ford.
Students will learn about:
– Where he was born
– What he built at the age of 15
– Where he worked as an engineer and when he built his first gasoline powered car
– What brought people to him willing to finance his new concept of manufacturing…and more!After reading, there are three worksheets for students to complete to help assess student comprehension.
– A “Who, What, When, Where, Why and How” worksheet
– A multiple-choice worksheet
– A short answer worksheetAnswer Keys provided.
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This is a downloadable copy of the book. (427 pages)
About the book: Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor, scientist, and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, the stock ticker, electric power, recorded music, the mechanical vote recorder and the light bulb, among many others. This biography discusses many facets of Edison’s life such as his boyhood years in Port Huron, Michigan, his time as a young telegraph operator, his time working and inventing in Boston, his inventing of the stock ticker, the phonograph, the telephone, the microphone, and the light bulb. You will learn of his world wide search for a supply of filament, and many details of his life not covered in other works of his life. -
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Print-n-go, word search puzzle for students with a Henry Ford theme! Use during a study of Henry Ford, inventors, American entrepreneurs, famous Americans (or) as a ready-to-use worksheet anytime of the year for early finishers or as a bellringer!
Answer key provided
Why word puzzles? Studies have shown that word search and other word puzzles can help improve memory, focus, vocabulary, word recognition, pattern recognition, and overall mental acuity!
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This is a downloadable copy of the book. (30 pages)
Excerpt from the book: Alexander Graham Bell – teacher, scientist, inventor, gentleman – was one whose life was devoted to the benefit of mankind with unusual success. Known throughout the world as the inventor of the telephone, he also made other inventions and scientific discovers of first importance, greatly advanced the methods and practices for teach the deaf and came to be admired and loved throughout the world for his accuracy of thought and expression.
