The first quarter curriculum map for science leaves much to be desired. I'm trying to create meaningful activities and stay true to the curriculum map. The strands include; who uses science, inventions and inventors and something to do with gauges and measurement. With 30 minutes twice a week, I'm coming up short!
This week I'm focusing on inventions and inventors. I checked out a book at the library with lots of pictures but the text was way too advanced. I went through the book and saw a section where it lists inventions alphabetically, shows a picture and gives a couple paragraph blurb. I took it and ran. I created this anchor chart to use...
First we talked about how inventions start as ideas. The inventor builds or creates their idea to make something easier or better. Then we talked about inventions that we know of like light bulbs and cars. Then I busted out the book. Each letter lists about 3 inventions, for example A listed 1) automobiles, 2) aspirin and something I can't remember! I showed the pictures and read the list to the kids and let them pick which invention they wanted to hear more about. I wrote the name of the invention on our list and read the blurb from the book to them. They picked really fun things like Ice Cream, Dynamite and Elevators. It was fun explaining what life might have been like before the inventions. Today we got through A-M, tomorrow I'm hoping for N-Z.
I think I'll pull it out next week and let them pick an invention, write about how it makes life easier or better and what it would have been like before it was invented. And illustrate, of course! I can just picture exploding buildings being drawn for dynamite!
Does anyone have any quick or fun suggestions on how to spice up these lessons? Please, please, please?
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