There are two assessments used for this activity.
The first one is a written summary from the notes each student took about their chosen inventions and inventors.
The second assessment is an advertisement poster about the invention and inventor.
The students will use this document to take notes about their chosen inventions. It is the foundation for the assessment activities.
This book is book about John Smith (1580-1631). He was instrumental in the settling of first permanent English colony of Jamestown. He was involved with the Virginia Company to come to this land. This book tells about him; the explorer, the sailor, the soldier, the slave, and the president of the council for the colony.
This is a good book to have the students read as a book club or as a read aloud to get the students involved in the history of Jamestown and those instrumental in settlement of the new land. At this point, it is a good and easy segue to the history of John Smith and how he was so instrumental in the Chesapeake Bay exploration for science.
Use the First Amendment pre-test to find out what students already know about the amendment and to contrast that to the type of information they already know
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