Inventions

After spring break, we started our fifth unit of the year with the Central Idea:

Technological systems impact the world of work and leisure. 

This week, we dove into the Line of Inquiry:

Circumstances and opportunities that led to the development of important inventions

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You can see from the photo of our unit wall that upon discussions, we came to the conclusion that technological tools are invented or improved for the following six reasons:

• to learn and explore
• to improve people's health
• to communicate better
• for convenience
• for entertainment
• for war/to compete with other countries

As you can see from the number of strings connected from each photo, we realised that inventions often take place for multiple reasons.

We then looked further into inventions throughout history and started to create memes for each technological tool to answer the following question: 

What circumstances/opportunities led to the development of important inventions?

We are excited to add these memes to our timeline of medical history in our classroom and hallway from the previous unit. 

Take a look at what we have so far! 

We were also very excited about finding these Easter eggs! 

Thank you, PTA!