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The invention of the dishwasher

Here is a post on the invention of the dishwasher machine. As you might have guessed, the person who first came up with the idea and the design of a dishwasher was a woman. Her name was Josephine …

Major dramatic questions in digital stories about the history of an invention

Speaking out loud through writing … about an invention! REMEMBER! Major Dramatic Questions can be stated or simply implied! Here are some examples of explicitly stated Major Dramatic Questions in digital stories about inventions! Study them and think …

Shared documents for the outline of your digital stories

Click on your group’s link and create the outline of your stories! Purple group Green group Blue group Orange group

Digital stories about inventions

Here is a collection of digital stories presenting inventions of the modern world! What do you think of them? Do they meet the criteria in the rubric for our digital storytelling projects? Traffic signals The windshield wiper The …

Digital stories about innovators

Do you want to get an idea of what your presentation can be like? Here are two digital stories about great innovators of the past, the Wright brothers and the Montgolfiers brothers! Watch and reflect on the rubrics …

Project “Great innovators and inventions of modern times”

Here is a set of websites you can browse in order to decide on and to find information about the invention or the innovator in your digital stories. You can also use the list of the Greatest Engineering …

Project “Great innovators and inventions of modern times”

Here is a set of websites you can browse in order to decide on and to find information about the invention or the innovator in your digital stories. You can also use the list of the Greatest Engineering …

Greatest engineering achievements of the 20th century

Explore the website and present in class your conclusions about: a. its structure, b. the content. http://www.greatachievements.org/

The Innovator

Who is the Innovator? What drives innovation in this video?  

Investigating innovation

Watch this video about innovation and discuss in your group what innovation involves. Then, make a collaborative concept map in your notebooks, including a definition and the processes which innovation involves, as well as anything else you find …