The Invention Convention:

Best of All Time?

 

            Today's Snack: What do YOU say is the best snack of all time? Could it be the whole peanut, since it's healthy, tasty, and its "packaging" - the nutshell - is recyclable and organic? Or how about the banana, with the same credentials? Some would say the chocolate chip cookie is hard to beat. You decide - and bon appétit!

 

 

 

 

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Supplies:

 

After School Treats notebook (any spiral notebook will do) and a pen or pencil

 

 

 

            What gets your vote as the greatest invention of all time? Circle your choice:

 

 

·   Wheel, invented about 3500 B.C., by unnamed ancient people in the Middle East.

 

·   Printing press, 1450, goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg, Germany.

 

·   Engine, 1781, engineer James Watt, Scotland.

 

·   Photography, 1839, printer Joseph Nicéphore Niepce and painter Louise Daguerre, France.

 

·   Radio, 1901, Guglielmo Marconi, Italy.

 

·   Flight, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright, Kitty Hawk, NC, USA.

 

·   Microchip, 1960, Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce, Bell Labs, USA.

 

 

Why do you think your choice was the greatest invention of all?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Name the invention that you would miss the most, if it didn't exist today, and why.

 

 

 

 

 

Which invention do you wish you had invented, and how would you improve on it today?

 

 

 

 

Choose one invention, and write how things would be different in our world if it hadn't been invented.

 

 

 

 

 

Now make your own list of great inventions. You can be silly or serious. Suggestions:

 

·         The ice cream cone.

 

·         Television.

 

·         Acne cream.

 

·         The "mute" button.

 

 

Make a list that's as long as you can. Then choose one, and write a funny story that features that invention.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally: Notice how these inventors lived all over the world. Can you locate these regions or countries on a world map?