The document describes a teacher's lesson transitioning students from a safety theme to learning about Black inventor Garrett Morgan. The teacher allowed the children's curiosity to guide an activity where they painted traffic light designs using red, yellow, and green paint. While the children painted, the teacher introduced Garrett Morgan and his inventions of the traffic signal and gas mask. The teacher emphasized how Morgan's inventions have saved lives all over the world.
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Bridging the gaps garrett morgan traffic signal [autosaved]
1. Bridging the Gaps
Effectively Transitioning Curriculum
Strategic Segues
Catherine M. Taylor
HD341 Communication for Empowerment
2. When first introducing concepts keep it simple
Successfully segueing “Safety” theme while transitioning
into celebration
of
Black History Month
Introduction of Black Inventor Garrett Morgan
Inventor
of
TRAFFIC SIGNAL
And
Gas Mask
It needs to be a meaningful experience… PROCESS, PROCESS, PROCESS!!!
3. I allow children’s curiousity to promote experience
1. I covered table with butcher paper
2. I stacked chairs and removed them from work area
3. I took out smocks and placed them on the table
4. I put large amounts of Yellow paint onto small paper plates
5. I add a small amount approximately ½tsp to ¾ tsp of red paint
*** At this point three friends had come by, put on smocks and where ready to paint! ***
One child asked, “Are we making the Magic School Bus”?
I used this question as my opportunity to introduce the “Traffic Signal”
It was then I first introduced Garrett Morgan his most remarkable inventions
4.
5. Garrett Morgan
Gas mask
I reminded the children of the
“Gas Mask”
demonstrated by the firefighters
when they came to visit our school and told them that
Garrett Morgan had invented that as well and
mentioned how many lives his inventions have saved.
Not just here, where we live…
but
ALL over the WHOLE WIDE WORLD!!!
8. RED ON TOP MEANS
STOP!
STOP!
STOP!
Children used red ink
pads and made
“Red Handprints” onto
red circle crayon
rubbing…
Remember when introducing these
concepts it is all about the
PROCESS!
12. Large paint brushes were used when painting over green crayon rubbing
I chose the large paint brushes to reinforce the concept of swifter movement.
13. Large paint brushes were used when painting with green liquid water color
over the green crayon rubbing we made on Tuesday.
I chose the large paint brushes to reinforce the concept of swifter movement.
I provided the children with very small paint brushes and
a thicker yellow activity paint for use over the yellow crayon rubbings.
19. Garrett A. Morgan: Traffic Signal and Gas Mask Inventor :
I marveled as a young girl that Garrett A. Morgan invented the traffic signal, I thought it was so
incredible because how many lives he saved. When a teacher, Ms. Brill in the fifth grade asked me if I
knew he was "African-American" I did not. I was amazed that his invention wasn't stolen by someone
else. My grandmother told me that all to often when poor people, or minorities came up with lucrative
inventions, patents, or ideas that were all too often bought out, virtually stolen from their true inventors.
His journey must have been quite a struggle. When I considered his invention the gas mask it really hit
home when I was in the Air Force. I worked in a Tactical Fighter Training Squadron and having to keep
pilots updated on their flight requirements required hours in the life support system which would have
been virtually pointless without gas masks. People forget that fire fighters use these every time they
enter a burning building. Of course there have been some modifications since the original ones Garrett
A. Morgan patented, but he has saved hundreds of thousands of lives because of his ingenuity. I would
actually like to know a more concise number of peoples impacted by his inventions.
