NEW WEBSITE

HELLO! ^^


Here you have the website about which we have been talking this morning in class!

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/

 

 

Martha :)

 



SOME INVENTIONS

Hello again!

As I promised, here you have some information about some of the most important inventions of our history.

LET'S HAVE A LOOK:

 

 

1) Parachute, 1913

With the invention of the plane it is only natural to invent the parachute. Although the idea of the parachute has been around since the 15^th century, Slovakian inventor Stefan Banic is credited with the invention of the first one widely used by the military.


2) Antibiotics, 1928

Although the ancient Chinese used antibiotics 2500 years ago, it was not identified until the 20^th century. It was Scottish biologist and pharmacologist Alexander Fleming who accidentally discovered that most famous of antibiotics, penicillin.

3) Rubik's Cube, 1974

The Rubik's Cube was created by Erno Rubik in 1974.

4) Video Game Console, 1968

Although the earliest video game console was invented in 1948, the "Magnavox Odyssey" invented by Ralph Baer was the first commercially available video game console.

 

 

5) Radio, 1895

 

In 1895, a young Italian named Gugliemo Marconi invented what he called “the wireless telegraph” while experimenting in his parents’ attic. He used radio waves to transmit Morse code and the instrument he used became known as the radio.

 

6) Printing Press, 1450  

Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press. While this may not sound like a big deal at first, the printing press is often considered as the most important invention in modern times. Think about how important information is today. Without books and computers you wouldn't be able to learn, to pass on information, or to share scientific discoveries. Prior to Gutenberg inventing the printing press, making a book was a laborious process. It wasn't that hard to write a letter to one person by hand, but to create thousands of books for many people to read was nearly impossible.

 

 

 

 

 

SEE YOU TOMORROW!

 

Martha :)

FINAL TASK

GREAT INVENTIONS

As you know, you are going to work in groups to make your Final Task about INVENTIONS.

In order to do it, the class has been divided in groups of five or four people, and each group has to look for information about TWO INVENTIONS and to bring this information the day 15th of May. This day, all of you are going to have enough time to create your murals in class and then, each group is going to present their inventions. 

I know that you are going to do it very well! ;)

Remember that the information that you have to bring is:

• The description of the invention and some pictures.
• The inventor and a photo.
• The year in which it was invented.
• The utility of this invention.
• And any interesting information that you want!

Here you have the EXAMPLE ABOUT THE LIGHT BULB that we have seen in class:

In the following posts, I will be writing useful information about the different inventions, and obviously you can use it to make your murals.

Thank you very much and good luck!

Martha ;)



History can be fun

DEAR THIRD GRADE PUPILS:

 

 

Welcome to this new blog!

 

 

I have created it to show you all the things that we are going to see in class. I hope you can get here all the information that you really need!

And I wish you can learn a lot through this new unit about HISTORY that we are going to start on Monday!

Thank you very much!

Martha :)