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Throughout history, inventions have helped people discover new worlds, build bridges, tunnels, and skyscrapers, travel to new and exciting places, cure diseases, and enjoy new technologies that have changed their lives forever.
Think about what your life would be like without electricity, automobiles, telephones, computers, television, video games, or even something as simple as a pencil.
Your job in this project is to research an invention. Learn all the facts that you can about it. Become an expert on your invention. Use books, encyclopedias, databases, websites, search engines, etc., to gain as much fascinating information as you can.
Then, after you are finished collecting information, you need to make some important decisions about the way you think your invention affected society....
1. Was your invention created for the purpose of convenience? Does the invention make people's lives easier? If so, in what ways were people's lives better because of this invention?
2. Was your invention created for the purpose of entertainment? In what ways are people enjoying their lives more now because this invention exists?
3. Perhaps it was an invention that changed lives forever. In what ways has your invention changed the way people live in our society? What difference has it made?
Three Choices to Make:
Convenience • Entertainment • Changed Lives

Convenience • Entertainment • Changed Lives

Online Resources:1. DatabasesInfoTrac
Ebsco
Culturegrams
2. Websites:• The History of Invention
• New York Public Library for Kids
• Enchanted Learning
• About.com
• World Almanac for Kids
• Fact Monster Guide to Inventions & Discoveries
• Kidspot Library of Inventions
• CyberSleuth Inventors Page
• Totally Absurd Inventions and Patents
3. Search Engines
Ask.com
Answers.com
Altavista
CyberSleuth
Yahooligans
Factmonster
Kids Click
________________________________________________One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises,
is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
- Henry Ford
