This document summarizes a school project on inventions and inventors. It includes sections on the project timeline and stages, themes of collaboration and assessment, project management steps, and benefits of the project. Students were divided into groups to research inventions, write stories about scientists, and create multimedia projects. The project aimed to explore how necessity drives invention, evaluate discoveries, and discuss mankind's progress through inventions like the wheel. Informational resources used included textbooks, images, and websites.

1. Bondary secondary school
Authors: Petrova E.A.
Bryxina I. A.
2012-2013

2. ““NNeecceessssiittyy iiss tthhee mmootthheerr
ooff iinnvveennttiioonn””..

3. AAnnnnoottaattiioonn
Science is a source of progress. It develops the world we live in.
Our century is an epoch of great discoveries in science and
engineering. It is epoch of scientific and technological revolution,
when new ideas are being born and new discoveries, inventions are
being made at an ever increasing rate.
Today science has become the most important factor in the
development of national economy in the whole world. Scientific
progress serves the interests of society, helps to increase the well -
being of people and develops public education.
But science may be turned both for peace and military purpose. It
can take good forms and evil forms. researches help us in our life:
at home, at work, at school and make the level of the country
development higher.

4. BBrraaiinnssttoorrmmiinngg

5. KKnnooww –– kknneeww –– wwaanntt ttoo kknnooww
know have
knew
want to
know
how to
knew
It is the wheel which enabled the first
primitive carts and other forms of
transport.
The discovery and invention of the proper
cultivation of penicillin has become the
basis of many other essential organic
processes.
The Chinese and Egyptian civilization,
played a highly instrumental role in the
development of paper.
The steam engine was at the heart of the
industrial revolution which revolutionized
the world.
Benjamin Franklin was able to show
lightening created electric charge.

6. AAnnsswweerr tthhee qquueessttiioonnss
1) Inventions – are they harmful or useful?
2) What makes people invent?
3) What can we do without modern gadgets?
4) Has the Mankind become happier with the
appearance of modern inventions?
5) Is it difficult to be a scientists?

7. Match the iinnvveennttiioonnss aanndd iinnvveennttoorrss
ELECTRICITY Wilhelm Konrad von
Roentgen
vacuum
cleaner
Alexander Graham Bell
Levi Strauss
John S. Thurman
Vladimir Zworykin
telephone
kinescope
Jeans
Benjamin Franklin
X-Ray

8. Translate into English
1. изобретать
2. делать, производить
3. запустить
4. смесь
5. испытывать
6. делать открытие
7. развивать
8. творить, создавать
9. улучшать
10. патентовать
11. усовершенствовать
12. без провода
to invent
to produce
to launch
to test
a mixture
to develop
to discover
to create
to improve
to patent
to perfect
cordless

9. Find a single word equivalent
1. A small device
2.To make bright or brighter
3. Absolutely necessary
4. To work, act or function
5. Common or ordinary
6. Increase in value or excellence
7. To call to a contest
8. A devise, especially,
an electrical or
gas-operated household device
gadget
to brighten
essential
to operate
commonplace
improvement
challenge
appliance

10. Essential question:
Is scientific research a great mankind’s harm or good?
Unit questions:
Is necessity always a reason of a scientific invention?
How to estimate uniqueness of a discovery?
Is one discovery a reason to appear another ones?
How does a wheel’s invention influence a mankind’s progress?

11. SStteeppss ooff tthhee pprroojjeecctt
1. Preparatory stage – December-January,
2012-2013
2. Practical stage – January – February, 2013
3. Analytical stage – March-April, 2013

12. PPrroojjeecctt’’ss tthheemmeess

13. CCoollllaabboorraattiioonn
The first group
„Inventors“
create Google site
Aim –
to find the
information about
inventions.
present
information in Wiki
Aim –
to write stories about
famous scientists and
inventors and their
inventions.
The second group
„Researchers“
do researching projects
Aim –
to create multimedia
projects.
The third group
„Journalists “

14. AAsssseessssmmeenntt TTiimmeelliinnee
Before project
work begins
Students work on
projects
and complete tasks
After project work
is complete
Discussion,
Prediction and
observation chart
Journal, quiz,
presentation,
diary scoring
guide
Reflection,
self-estimation

15. PPrroojjeecctt mmaannaaggeemmeenntt
1. Agree precise specification for the project
2. Plan the project - time, team, activities, resources.
3. Communicate the project plan to your project team -
and to any other interested people and groups.
4. Agree and delegate project actions.
5. Manage and motivate - inform, encourage, enable the
project team.
6. Check, measure, monitor, review project progress -
adjust project plans, and inform the project team.
7. Project follow-up - train, support, measure and report
results and benefits (reflection).

16. BBeenneeffiitt ffrroomm tthhee pprroojjeecctt
• You become more creative, tolerant and
initiative.
• You are able to formulate a problem, put
purposes and tasks, present different forms
and results of your project activity.
• To have a possibility to make decisions in
unusual situations.
• To learn to work in different Web 2.0.
services.

17. IInnffoorrmmaattiioonnaall rreessoouurrcceess
New Millennium English -11 О. Гроза, о. Дворецкая и др.
http://www.shenet.org/karigon/2ndGrade/mkimages/images/microscope.gif
http://amyboehman.edublogs.org/files/2008/09/waycool.gif
http://starstudyacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/science_camp_icon.jpg
http://blogs-images.forbes.com/alexknapp/files/2011/11/300px-
Shadow_Hand_Bulb_large.jpg