FAMOUS INVENTORS

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FAMOUS INVENTORS

• PRESENTED BY
• LOURDES AVILA

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Grade Level Content Area

• Grade Level
• First Grade

• Content Area
• Social Studies

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TEKS Rationale

• TEKS
• (1)  History. The student understands how
  historical figures helped to shape our community,
  state, and nation. The student is expected to
• (b) identify historic figures such as Alexander
  Graham Bell and Thomas Edison who have exhibited
  a love of individualism and inventiveness

• Rationale
• Instructional
• Input

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What Is an Inventor?

• An inventor is someone who makes something new
  that does not already exist.
• Inventors discover things through thinking and
  experimenting.
• They are very important to us in many ways.

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Who Are Some Famous Inventors?

• There are many famous inventors that have helped
• shape the world today.
• Can you think of some inventors and their
• inventions?

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Thomas A. Edison

• Thomas Alva Edison is a very famous inventor with
  
• inventions that we use today. He was born in
  1847
• and lived to be 84 years old. He was a very
  smart
• man and was always experimenting with different
• things.

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Some Of His Inventions Include

• The Phonograph to record sounds and play them
  back
• The Motion Picture Camera to record movies and
  play them
• And The Light Bulb to use electricity to light
  homes instead of candles and gas lamps

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Alexander Graham Bell

• Alexander Bell was the
• inventor of the telephone,
• the most used method of
• communication. He was
• born in 1847 and lived to be
• 75 years old. He had many
• other projects he worked on
• with other people but is most
• remembered for the
• telephone.

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Benjamin Franklin

• Ben Franklin was born in 1706 and lived to be
• 84 years old. He was an inventor among
• many other things. Ben Franklin was a very
• smart man.

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Some Of His Inventions Include

• The Franklin Stove to heat homes safer
• The Lightning Rod to protect buildings and ships
  from lightning damage
• Bifocal eyeglasses to see both near and far
• And he established the first fire company to put
  fires out

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What We Learned

• Inventors are very important people for many
  different
• reasons. Without them, we would not have such
  wonderful
• things like the light bulb, fire fighters, sound
  recorders,
• movie cameras, or telephones.
• Can you think of other inventions that are
• important to our lives?

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Credits

• Adler, D. (1996). A Picture Book of Thomas Alva
  Edison. NY Holiday House
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