Inventing

1. The Headbone Derby: Invention Snatchers  (site info) Internet research adventure helps 4th-8th graders discover inventors from the past and learn how inventions come to be. http://www.headbone.com/derby/invent/main.b.html 2. The American Experience: Forgotten Inventors  (site info) Highlights everyday items such as blue jeans or the can opener and tells about people who created them. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/sfeature/ 3. Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Inventors and Innovations  (site info) Provides links to Smithsonian web resources. http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/invent.htm 4. Great Inventions and Inventors  (site info) Elementary school students introduce some of the greatest minds and machines in the modern era. Includes timeline. http://www.thinkquest.org/library/lib/site_sum_out... 5. Become An Inventor  (site info) A guide to finding and solving inventive problems, performing patent searches, and marketing ideas. Requires Flash plug-in. http://www.thinkquest.org/library/lib/site_sum_out... 1-5 of 5.