WORKSHEETS
Design a contraption or invention for a class-wide contest and presentation.
Students create a timeline of famous inventions and use it to answer math problems.
Students practice arithmetic while learning about the history of several famous inventions.
Students research a famous inventor and write interview questions they would like to ask him or her.
Students invent their own sport and then play.
Students invent their own musical instrument using materials commonly found around the home or at school.
Interesting facts and fun activities related to the fork.
Interesting facts and fun activities related to the ballpoint pen.
Interesting facts and fun activities related to the typewriter.
Interesting facts and fun activities related to wind-up cars.
Interesting facts and fun activities related to the introduction of the taxicab.
Interesting facts and fun activities related to roller skates.
Students imagine an invention that will help them perform a task, then design and illustrate the invention.
Students use their creativity to invent new endings to Ben Franklin's famous maxims, and create their own almanac.
Print a worksheet that details the invention of the popsicle and a recipe for iced-pops.
This little book of inventions explains how inventions came about in different ways.
Student simulate how inventors compare objects by making connections between pairs of items.
Students write a poem about the invention of the wheel and then copy it onto a spinning wheel.
Interesting facts and fun activities related to staplers (a type of third-class levers).
Interesting facts and fun activities related to the history of washing machines.
DAILY WARM-UPS
Teach your students about the history of transportation. This printable warm-up about railroads includes a nonfiction…
Introduce students to the work of Bill Gates with a nonfiction reading passage. Check their understanding of the text…
