Dominique Spier's List: Young Inventors

This website may become a resource to teachers as it describes a set design challange that would be useful for an assessment or class activity. This resource is useful for teachers however would not be very student friendly.

This website can be a good resource for teachers to source different design challanges that relate to the theme or subject they are teaching.

This is an extremely useful resource for teachers struggling for design challenge ideas. The resource provides the young inventors challenge suitable for primary students, and includes a pdf file that may be used by the teacher for different activities leading up to the design challenge. This resource is fun and engaging for students and acts as an aid for teachers.

This resource would aid students when serching the internet as the research can be divided in to categories and headings.

This resource would aid research on any topic and would help further students understanding as it contains an encyclopedia, dictionary, and thesaurus.

This site offers student friendly information that is easy for students to read and understand. Students will be able to obtain facts about Bell that they need.

This resource provides students with an interactive and fun facts about a famous inventor. The students will be able to navigate around the page finding out the information they need to know.

Wikipedia is a good online resource to give basic information to students and teachers. Wikipedia has a large variety of information on various subjects and is quick and easy to find. Students may like to use this as ameans of beginning an investigation as they are able to branch off. However it is not suggested that Wikipedia is used as a sole reference , but as a base backed up by further reseach.

This website can be of use to teachers or students as they are able to find definitions of words that may not be understood or are difficult to explain.

This resource could be very useful student and teacher resource when teaching about inventions. The book may be used in a variety of contexts such as a book for students to read in their spare time or as a class activity read by the teacher. The book is engaging and and informative making it suitable for primary students. Furthermore this website provides a 'Teachers notes' download which gives different ways of incorporating the book across different KLA's.

This website could be used by students for reserch regarding famous inventors. Students are able to click on different links and discover different information about different inventors.

This is another website that is student friendly and may be used to research a famous inventor. The layout looks inviting and is more likely to be used by students.

The highlighted website provides students with different categories of inventors that they might like to research. It also includes games and activities that is related to the theme of inventors.

Many different worksheets about inventors can be retieved from this website and used with the young inventors unit.

The highlighted resource contains a step by step plan for an invetors report assessment.

This resource includes many ideas for an inventors unit such as task, process, resources, assessment and teacher notes.