Thursday, April 24, 2014

Friday, April 18, 2014

Homework for Tuesday!

 
There were many great inventors in history. You have learned about many of them already, but there are lots of others!
A biography tells about a person's real life. Choose one inventor and learn about his or her life.


Write in your comments!
 Research Activity
Name:

Birth date:

Birth place:

Death (if dead):

Invention:

2 interesting facts from his or her life
How did the first invention come out?

What does the invention do?



Thursday, April 17, 2014

Homework for Friday

Watch one or two of these videos and be ready to tell us tomorrow about some inventions!

The earliest coins were struck in the late seventh century BCE in western Asia Minor (present-day Turkey), which was home to many Greek cities. They are nugget-like in shape and made of electrum, an alloy of gold and silver.


This is the history of LEGO from 1942 to 2012. It shows how one man's idea of a wooden toy company can turn into a company that sells billions of LEGO plastic bricks every year.