INVENTORS & INVENTIONS PATHFINDER

General Information:

Mary Elder
Fredericktown Primary School
Columbus: ORCLISH
Companion Action Plan: Inventors & Inventions
2nd Grade
Social Studies/Science/Technology
Inventors/Inventions

Content Information:

This pathfinder is designed for second grade students and teachers. Its focus is primarily non-fiction and contains both print and online resources about inventors and inventions.

Dewey Numbers: 608, 609
Subject Headings: Inventors, Inventions, Children as Inventors

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INVENTION STORIES teachers can read to students:

*Brainstorm! The stories of Twenty American Kid Inventors by Tom Tucker
*Imaginative Inventions: The Who,What, Where, When, and Why of Roller Skates,
Potato Chips, Marbles, and Pie and More! by Charise Harper
*The Kid Who Invented the Popsicle: and Other Surprising Stories About Inventions
by Don L. Wulffson
*The Kid Who Invented the Trampoline:More Surprising Stories About Inventions by
DonL. Wulffson
*Mistakes That Worked by Charlotte Foltz Jones
*So You Want to be an Inventor? by Judith St. George
*Toys! Amazing Stories Behind Some Great Inventions by Don L. Wulffson
* What a Great Idea!: Inventions That Changed the World by Stephen M. Tomecek

BIOGRAPHIES: Books students can read to learn about inventors:

*Alexander Graham Bell by Lola Schaefer
*Charles Drew: Pioneer in Medicine by Anne E. Schraff
*Eli Whitney: American Inventor by K. Bagley & Ray Douglas Hart
*George Eastman the Kodak Camera Man by Caren T. Ford
*Henry Ford by Lola Schaefer
*Leonardo da Vinci by Diane Stanley
*A Picture Book of Benjamen Franklin by David Adler
*A Picture Book of George Washington Carver by David Adler
*A Picture Book of Louis Braille by David Adler
*A Picture Book of Thomas A. Edison by David Adler
*Robert Fulton by Lola Schaefer
*Robert Goddard by Lola Schaefer
*The Wright Brothers by Lola Schaefer

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INFOHIO ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
Brittanica Online - Elementary Encyclopedia
Sirs Discoverer - Click on Biographies under Database Features
- Funk & Wagnells Encyclopedia at the bottom of the page

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MEDIA RESOURCES (VIDEO)

The Great Inventors (VC920) 1994, Hollywood, CA Paramount Pictures
A Charlie Brown Salute to Great Inventors : Bell, Edison, and Ford
animated, 24 minutes.

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SELECTED ARTICLES FROM INFOHIO ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

Read these articles and see what kids can do!!!!!

A Young Inventor's Big Hit. Time for Kids, 2/8/2002, Vol. 7 Issue 16, p8, 1/5p; Reading Level (Lexile): 790; (AN 6259587)

All About...A KID'S KIDKARE CAR . World Almanac for Kids, 2002, p102, 1/5p; Reading Level (Lexile): 930; (AN 8539939)

A Step Above All the Rest! Time for Kids, 10/19/2001, Vol. 7 Issue 5, p8, 1/5p; Reading Level (Lexile): 760; (AN 5468619)

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WEBSITES:

Zoom Inventors & Inventions: From Enchanted Learning
(scroll down near the bottom of the page)

Mrs. Thompson's Invention Convention

Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation

Beyond 2000