what’s your favourite invention?
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What’s your favourite invention?. Why do we invent things?. Chronologically order these inventions. Chronologically order these inventions. Tim Berners-Lee 25 December 1990. Alexander Graham Bell 1898. Thomas Edison 1879. Karl Benz 1886. Alexander Fleming 1928. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
What’s your favourite invention?Why do we invent things?
Chronologically order these inventions
Chronologically order these inventions
Tim Berners-Lee25 December 1990 Alexander Graham Bell
1898 Thomas Edison1879
Alexander Fleming1928
Karl Benz1886
Text messaging – a good invention?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7WSzxQ0nX4
Good Bad
Young people must know the correct spelling of a word in order to abbreviate it.
Abbreviations may creep their way into academic writing.
Planning your invention presentation• What is the invention?• Who created it?• When was it created?
• What was your invention intended to do? Consider a variety of reasons.Example: washing machine - a time saving device
• As each group presents back to the class, think of a question you might ask them to do with the intentions of their invention.
• Also, consider what the inadvertent outcomes (negative consequences of the invention might be)
Inadvertent outcome (something bad comes from a creative invention)Example invention – Washing machineIntended effect – to save people timeInadvertent outcome – if you accidently
choose the wrong setting it can be difficult to stop the machine & it may shrink your clothes.