Web Quest: How Early American Inventors Helped In

Shaping Our Country

Ben Franklin

Eli Whitney

Thomas Edison

Lesson Objectives

• SWBAT:• Analyze primary sources with provided

techniques to understand the impacts of early American inventors on today’s society.

• Use SEA worksheets, NARA worksheets, and Venn diagrams to analyze primary sources.

• Create a timeline showing the life and importance of the inventions of the inventors covered in this lesson.

Introduction

Throughout American history there have been individuals that have, either by intention or accident, impacted the formation of and future events of the United States. In this lesson we will journey through history starting with our local boy Ben Franklin and ending with a Jersey boy, Thomas Edison. Technology evolves like living things do so we will look at the beginning a see if we can figure out where that invention is impacting us today. I hope you are ready for an exciting and informative journey, here we go.

Benjamin Franklin

• Day 1– Log on to Edmodo

• Download the KWL for Ben Franklin• First fill in the K and W with your computer partner• Download the Venn diagram worksheet for

comparing the sheet music and audio of the Glass Armonica

• Finish by filling in the L of your KWL worksheet– Make sure to focus on how Ben’s diplomacy the

invention of the glass armonica impacted the formation of the United States.

Benjamin Franklin

• Click on the links below and find out who he is:

• http://www.imahero.com/herohistory/ben_herohistory.htm

• http://www.revolutionary-war.net/benjamin-franklin.html

Click on the sheet music to go to the website to analyze the sheet music created by Mozart for the Glass Armonica. Use your Venn Diagram

Click on the picture of the man playing the Glass Armonica to go to a website to see a video of him playing the instrument. Choose the sixth video.

Click on the picture of Mozart to listen to and analyze the audio of the music he composed for the Glass Armonica. Use your Venn Diagram

Benjamin Franklin

• Complete all required documents and submit them via the assignment section of Edmodo

• Tomorrow we will continue our journey through United States invention history with Mr. Eli Whitney.

Eli Whitney

• Day 2– Log on to Edmodo

• Download the KWL for Eli Whitney• First fill in the K and W with your computer partner• Download the NARA written document worksheet and the

SEA compare worksheet, and complete them for the items indicated on the next slide.

• Finish by filling in the L of your KWL worksheet– Make sure to focus on how the cotton gin and interchangeable

parts impacted the development of the United States.

Eli Whitney

• Click on this list and find out who he is:

– http://www.history.com/topics/cotton-gin-and-eli-whitney

– http://www.history.com/topics/interchangeable-parts

Click on the map of Eli Whitney’s Armory where he invented the idea of interchangeable parts. Use the SEA compare worksheet, this is article 1.

Click on the picture of the slaves using the Cotton Gin to go to the data needed to complete the NARA written document worksheet.

Click on the picture of the interchangeable parts for a musket. Use the SEA compare worksheet, this is article 2.

Eli Whitney

• Complete all required documents and submit them via the assignment section of Edmodo

• Tomorrow we will continue our journey through United States invention history with Mr. Thomas Edison.

Thomas Edison

• Day 3– Log on to Edmodo

• Download the KWL for Thomas Edison• First fill in the K and W with your computer partner• Download the NARA worksheets for audio and

video• Finish by filling in the L of your KWL worksheet

– Make sure to focus on how the invention of the phonograph and light bulb impacted the future of the United States.

Thomas Edison

• Click on this picture and find out who he is:

Click on the picture of Edison to watch a video about his quest to invent the light bulb. Use the NARA worksheet for video to analyze it.

Click on the picture of the phonograph to listen to a recording made with the invention. Use the NARA worksheet for audio to analyze the recording. Click on the listen in wav format link.

Thomas Edison

• Complete all required documents and submit them via the assignment section of Edmodo

• Tomorrow we will finish our journey through United States invention history by creating a timeline.

Time Line Activity• Day 4

– Log on to Edmodo • Use all the information you gathered over the last 3 days to

create a timeline.– It should begin with Benjamin Franklin and end with the

present.– It should include the inventors birth and death.– It should include the date of the invention illustrated during this

lesson and the future events it helped to bring about (your interpretation).

– It maybe physical or digital (your choice)– It is due by the end of the period, GO!

Timeline Rubric10 7 5 0

_____/10 Content Timeline includes 3 inventor with birth,

death, inventions covered in the web-

quest, and the major impacts of

those inventions.

Timeline includes 2 inventor with birth,

death, inventions covered in the web-

quest, and the major impacts of

those inventions.

Timeline includes 1 inventor with birth,

death, inventions covered in the web-

quest, and the major impacts of

those inventions.

No inventor included on the timeline

_____/10 Aesthetic value

Timeline is neat and legible with colors coded per inventor.

Timeline is neat and legible

with no colors coded per inventor.

Timeline is sloppy and illegible with colors coded per inventor.

Sloppy, no color, illegible

_____/10 Mechanics

there were no grammar or

spelling errors

there are 2 grammar or

spelling errors

There were no more then 5 grammar or

spelling errors

there are more then 5 grammar or spelling

errors

_____/30

Wrapping Up

• Make sure to turn in your timeline to Edmodo if it is digital or the basket on the work table in the front of the room.

• I hope you enjoyed the journey through our Early American Inventions, remember “the inventions of the past, inspire the innovations of today”.

• Be inspired! Go invent!

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