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What’s your favourite invention? Why do we invent things?

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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 Presentation

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Page 1: What’s your  favourite  invention?

What’s your favourite invention?Why do we invent things?

Page 2: What’s your  favourite  invention?

Chronologically order these inventions

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Chronologically order these inventions

Tim Berners-Lee25 December 1990 Alexander Graham Bell

1898 Thomas Edison1879

Alexander Fleming1928

Karl Benz1886

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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.

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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)

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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.