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UOI 3 - Inventions
22nd November - 28th January

Transdisciplinary Theme
Where We Are In Place And Time


Central Idea
Past civilizations are linked to societies and cultures of the present day.


Overview
During this unit students will be researching different inventions, focusing on Chinese inventions in Mandarin lessons and other inventions in UOI lessons. They will be creating an information report on their invention, focusing on research skills using the internet, creating timelines, creating full size Chinese clothing and writing a fiction story linking their invention to the modern day.

Read our finished inventions stories here. This process also included inventions research, information reports and timelines.

Resources
1st Lesson Presentation
Creating timelines - math
Electronic timeline website
http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/timeline/
This year in history
websites
http://www.factmonster.com/yearbyyear.html
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/yearsanddecades.html
Resource - Timeline template

2nd Lesson Presentation
Tuning in - Understanding timelines
Resource - Timeline template

3rd Lesson Presentation
Inquiry on the Internet
Resource - Critical Evaluation of a website
Chinese Clothing Wiki
http://typewith.me/ppVPtDzgKl

4th Lesson
Evaluating a website

Tree Octopus
Resource - Critical Evaluation of a website

5th Lesson Presentation
Unpacking the Central Idea

Resource - Grid

6th Lesson Presentation
Choosing an invention
Inventions Brainstorm
Inventions Wiki
Resource - Initial Inquiry - Who, what, why, where, how?

7th Lesson
Writing a research report
Collecting information on a timeline

Resource - Timeline and information report
Research Report Rubric
Some invention reports are available here

8th Lesson
Creating a timeline
Resource - Invention Timeline Rubric

Resource - Example Timeline
Resource - Timeline template

Creating the costumes slideshow

Video introduction to science museum field trip.

Invention Timeline Rubric
2009 - 10 Unit Links
Chinese clothing process
Unit webpage
Design costumes
Final costumes

Language Focus
Researching On The Web

Inventions Wiki
Information Report
http://www.writingfun.com/writingfun2010.html
Tree Octopus

 Student Invention Reports
Fiction Writing


Art Integration
Chinese Clothing Wiki

Search Engines
Remember Google is not the only search engine. Try some of these.
http://www.sweetsearch.com/
http://www.viewzi.com/
http://search.spacetime.com/
http://www.nexplore.com/
http://www.askkids.com/
http://www.spezify.com/
http://cybersleuth-kids.com/
http://www.bing.com
http://www.quintura.com/
http://www.altavista.com/
http://kids.yahoo.com/


Research Project Rubric

Modeling Costumes - Slideshow

Model Test Costumes

Process Photo Slideshow

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