Science

​ Ohio Inventors: How Inventions Improve Human Lives; Past, Present, and Future



Learning about past Ohio inventors will not only help us understand the impact of these inventions on our society, but give us ideas to develop technology to meet our current and future needs!

Area || Curriculum Grade 4 Standard(s) || Technology  || Description  || Supporting Resource  || Tried and True (TT) or New and Innovative (NI)  || UnderstandingTechnology // 1. Explain how technology from different areas (e.g., transportation, communication, nutrition, healthcare, agriculture, entertainment and manufacturing) has improved human lives. 2. Investigate how technology and inventions change to meetpeoples' needs and wants. || Podcast with Audacity Flip Video Windows Movie Maker Google Images || Students will visit the following website : []
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After reviewing all the famous Ohio inventors on this site. Students will prepare for a virtual inventors museum. In this museum, students will work in pairs to prepare and present a 5 minute movie about their assigned famous Ohioan. The students will use video to capture the Ohioan (Student dressed as) reading important pieces about their inventions that have improved human lives. Students will also use Google Images to collect 3-5 pictures of the inventions. Audacity, an audio program will be used to give audio commentary on images of inventions selected. Students will work together to import video, audio, and images into Movie Maker to create the final 5 minute presentation. These videos will be posted on the classroom Wikispace, through YouTube, for students to view and discuss. ||  This research supports the idea that pod cast usage in the K-12 classrooms is climbing in usage and helps support student performance when used correctly. || NI (New and Innovative) New and Innovative ways of using multiple technologies to produce a common group project. TT(Tried and True) Google Images, class wikispace, and Movie Maker are considered tried and true because of the multiple uses students have in creation of various videos. ||

Famous Ohioan Inventors

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