Invention Project.
The List bellow shows you the basic outline for
your Slide show. The information that
you put in each slide will vary according to your topic. For example if your topic was the invention of
“paper” you may only find an approximate date for the invention.
You
may want to put more than one slide into one section. You can always add another title if you like.
Slide 1. Title Page. (Name of Invention or
company).
1.
Date of the Invention. (Place an
old picture of it here).
2.
Name of Inventor.
3.
Your Name
Slide 2. The Start.
Explain the story of how or why it was
invented.
Slide 3. How it Works.
How does the invention work. A good website
for this is howstuffworks.com
Slide 4. History.
What is the overall history
of the invention.
(Most things develop over time).
Slide 5. Time Line.
Can you find or make a time
line of all the important dates of the invention?
Slide 6. Impacts.
What are some of the good and
bad things about the invention?
Slide 7. Future.
What do people think the
future of the invention will be? What do
you think it will be?
What to Do
When
1. Choose Your Invention.
(for help and links open the document Invention
in
G:\Instruction\MS\Tech\Redman\Invention Project\ open Invention Project
Links 2003 Hold Ctrl Click to open link.)
2. Research on-line as
above and by searching Google and in the Library.
3. Start a new Power Point
and set up the slides as above. (remember to save it to the f: drive (username) as Invention
Name.)
4. Copy Paste Pictures From the internet to your Power Point. (Do not Paste Text into Power Point).
5. You should now become
the expert on this invention by reading and studying the research material.
6. Start to type the basic
information into your Slide Show.
(Remember you should tell your audience more than what you write. You can also explain pictures and diagrams
during the show.
7. Finally animate your
slides.
PTO.
Notes
Name of Invention
1. Date of the Invention.
2. Name of Inventor.
3. Your Name
The Start.
Explain
the story of how or why it was invented.___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How it Works.
How does the invention work. A good website
for this is howstuffworks.com___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
History.
What is the overall history
of the invention.
(Most things develop over time).___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Impacts.
What are some of the good and bad
things about the Invention?_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Future.
What
do people think the future of the invention will be? What do you think it will
be?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Links to Invention
Websites:
1.
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/1_1_search.asp National Inventors Hall of Fame
2.
http://www.bergen.org/ECEMS/class/welcome.html Academy for the Advancement of Science and
Technology
3.
http://www.nps.gov/edis/home.htm
Edison National Historic Site
4.
http://www.historychannel.com/perl/search.pl?word=invention The History
Channel (Search for Invention)
5.
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/invent.htm
The Smithsonian Inventors and Innovations
6.
http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/rotten.html
Benjamin Franklin: Glimpses of the Man
7.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/sfeature/index.html
The American Experience: Forgotten Inventors
8.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/ (How inventions work.)
Special
Functions:
To
add a New Slide- Click on “INSERT” and
drag to “NEW SLIDE”
To view your presentation- click
on “VIEW” and then “SLIDE SHOW”
To
add Clip art- click on
“INSERT”, then “PICTURE” then on “CLIP ART”
To
add a color background- click on
“FORMAT” and then on “BACKGROUND”
To
view all of your slides- Click
on “VIEW” and then on “SLIDE SORTER”
To
add a slide transition- Click
on “SLIDE SHOW” and then on “SLIDE TRANSITION”
To
add a sound- Click on “SLIDE
SHOW” and then on “SLIDE TRANSITION”
To
add a special effect- Click on “SLIDE SHOW” and
then on “CUSTOM ANIMATION”