Curated OER
Inventions 2: The Impact
Students explore innovators and inventions. For this technology lesson, students investigate the issues inventors face as they tackle new technology. Students design their own realistic needs-based invention.
Curated OER
Case Studies of American Innovation
Studnets discover how the Industrial Revolution came to be in the United States. In this technological advancements lesson, students research creations by Henry Ford, the Wright Brothers, and Thomas Edison. Students create PowerPoint...
Curated OER
Writing Exercise: The Renaissance II
Here is a cross-curricular writing exercise with limited appeal as an engaging or interactive activity. A worksheet on the Renaissance that has learners responding to 3 simple prompts, each of which can easily lead into deeper research....
Curated OER
Get the Picture?
Students explore the movement to design low-cost solutions for the world's population and create a graph to represent the information. In this design and graphing lesson, students review the concepts of graphing and visit the...
Curated OER
Historic Earth Science Innovations
Pupils research the demands or limitations on Earth scientists. In groups, they design and build a model that would be useful to them in the lab or field. They share their model and their ideas behind it to the class and answer any...
Curated OER
Splendid China
Sixth graders gain an appreciation for the traditions and vast contributions of the Chinese culture in this unit of lessons.
Curated OER
#2 Pencil Innovations: Inventions, Science
Ask your class to consider a #2 Pencil to show how inventive thinking can be stimulated by making innovations to an everyday object. There is also an interesting extension included that refers to a book about the history of the pencil....
BBC
Bbc News: The Road to Riches: The 2nd Industrial Revolution
A brief look at some of the inventions and technologies associated with the second industrial revolution, which came into existence thanks to the new discoveries made by chemists and physicists. Offers a look at how these advancements...
Other
Time Toast: Famous Inventions
An interactive timeline featuring inventions discovered between the late nineteenth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Great Idea Finder
The Great Idea Finder: Thomas Alva Edison
This site from The Great Idea Finder presents a lengthy biography of Thomas Edison, followed by a wealth of suggested resources including books, movies, and the Internet.
Other
Up to Ten: The History of Inventions
Place the inventions on the interactive timeline in chronological order to advance to the next level.
The Tech Interactive
The Tech: The National Medal of Technology
A list of those individuals and companies awarded the National Medal of Technology in various fields from 1985 through 2004. Also play a game to find their innovations in the real world.
Other
Children's British History Encyclopedia: Victorian Discoveries and Inventions
An organized timeline featuring many important inventions and discoveries made in Britain during the Victorian period.
Ohio State University
Osu History Teaching Institute: The Automobile
This lesson plan will help students understand the different ways in which the automobile changed American society. Students will learn about Henry Ford, whose innovations transformed manufacturing and made automobiles affordable for...
Birmingham Museums Trust (UK)
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery: The Victorians Inventions
Try to identify the inventions form the Victorian era, and then learn more about each discovery.
Project Britain
Primary Homework Help: The Victorians: Inventions
Find out about several major developments that made travel, communications, and trade easier for many people during the Victorian period.
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: Telegraph
The telegraph was an electronic means for the rapid and reliable transmission of coded information over extended distances. In time it was also perfected to interpret and print the electronic symbols into readable text. By 1848 a...
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: Telephones
Telephones began to appear in North Carolina beginning in 1879, three years after Alexander Graham Bell's new invention had first been introduced at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. On 10 March of that year, a telephone was...
Project Britain
Primary Homework Help: The Victorians: Inventions Timeline
An organized timeline featuring major developments and inventions that made travel, communications, and trade easier for many people during Queen Victoria's reign.
Other
Hampshire Schools: Victorian Inventions
Find out about some important inventions from the Industrialized Victorian Era.