Part I. EBSCO online magazine and newspaper databases (CMS students only)

Part I. EBSCO online magazine and newspaper databases (CMS students only)

1. Go to EBSCO .

• Click Middle School.
• Make sure Middle Search Plus is checked. Click Continue.
• Be sure full text is checked.
• Do a search for invention and teen*.
• In the list of articles, find the article "Alphabet Coup."
• Click on "Alphabet Coup" and answer the following questions.

a. What did Krystal Dobson invent? __________________________________________________________________

b. What grade was she in when she invented it? __________________________

c. What did she make it out of? ________________________________________

d. What did she do with them? ________________________________________

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e. What did the little kids think about her invention? _______________________

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f. What are her future plans? _________________________________________

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Part II. Cascade's Online Catalog

Let's go to Cascade's online catalog to see what the library has about inventions.

Do a title search for the book Brainstorms!: The Stories of Twenty American Kid Inventors

1. a. Who is the author? _____________________________________________

b. What is the call number? _________________________________________

c. What is the copyright date? _______________________________________

Do a subject search for inventors.

2. a. How many titles are listed under the subject Inventors? ________

b. Give the title of two books listed under the subject Inventors

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c. Is either book checked out? ___________

Part III. World Book Online (for CMS students from school only)

1. Go to World Book Online .

• Search for invention.
• Click on invention.
• În the outline section of the left column, click on Recent Developments.

a. What three recent inventions are mentioned?

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2. Using World Book Online, find out what the following people invented.

a. Linus Yale

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b. Charles Macintosh

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c. Clarence Birdseye

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d. Charles Babbage

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Part IV. The Internet

Now it is time to surf the World Wide Web (another great invention, by the way!) for some more info on inventions.

1. The Renaissance is a name given to a time period during the 1500's in Europe. Let's go look at the Virtual Renaissance web site created by students at Twin Groves Middle School in Illinois. The section on Renaissance Inventions and Technology will tell us what technology was like in Europe during the Renaissance.

a. What happened to inventors who proposed new ideas or inventions during the Renaissance? __________________________________________________________________

Click on printing press.

b. Who invented the printing press? _____________________________

c. In what year? ______________

d. How were books reproduced before the printing press?

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The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. has one of the three remaining copies of the Gutenberg Bibles. Click here to see a close up of two of the pages.

2. Ben Franklin was an amazing man whose many talents include inventing useful items that we still use today. Go to Benjamin Franklin and His Inventions

a. Find four inventions that Franklin created.

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3. Sometimes inventions are pretty weird. Go to Totally Absurd and look at some odd inventions.

Scroll down and click on Featured Absurd Invention.

a. Answer the following :

Invention ___________________________________________________________

Purpose ____________________________________________________

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Do you think it would it work? _______________________

4. Now let's enter the Invention Dimension .

Click on Inventor of the Week Archives.

Find the article on Benjamin Banneker.

a. What did Banneker do after the French planner for Washington, D.C. stormed off the job with all of the plans? ____________________________________________________________________

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b. What did Banneker build in 1753 that was the first one made in the New World? ____________________________________________________________________

c. By studying astronomy after the War, what did Banneker begin publishing that gained him fame? ____________________________________________________________________

Click back and use the index to find the article to answer the following questions.

d. What did Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman invent? ________________________

e. What company did they found? ______________________

5. Let's go to a website that honors Forgotten Inventors .

Scroll down to the article about the Frisbee.

a. What did William Frisbie make ______________________________________

b. What did nearby Yale students toss around for fun? _____________________

c. What did Wham-O president name his "flying saucer' toy? ________________

6. Not all inventors were men, let's find out about some women inventors at the Inventors Museum .

Click on Women Inventors.

Click on Grace Hopper.

Scroll to the bottom of the article.

a. What computer language did Grace Hopper invent in 1959? ______________

b. What computer term did she invent when she found that a moth had made the computer stop working? __________________________________________

c. What was the key principle to her success? ____________________________

Click the back button.

Click on Margaret Knight.

d. What did she invent when she was twelve years old? ____________________

e. For what invention did she receive her first patent? _____________________

7. Now we are off to the National Inventors Hall of Fame .

• Click on Search
• Search for George Washington Carver. (Hint: just type Carver.)

a. Carver developed crop rotation. What is crop rotation? __________________________________________________________________

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b. What crops did Carver rotate? __________________________________________________________________

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c. How many uses for peanuts did Carver developed? ______________________

d. Why didn't Carver attend Highland University? __________________________

Congratulations! You have completed your Invention Scavenger Hunt. I hope you have learned more about the people who have invented some of the things we use everyday.