Home Plan - [JG3-L1-U2-LC5-23 Technology and Innovation – Inventions – Young Thomas Edison]

The document provides detailed information about Young Thomas Edison and his journey to becoming a renowned inventor, focusing on his early life, experimentation, and key inventions. Students are guided to understand the skills and traits required for innovation by summarizing events, connecting with the text, and analyzing Edison’s characteristics like curiosity, determination, and resilience. The document highlights Edison’s early interest in inventing, his persistence despite setbacks, and the support he received from his mother, emphasizing factors that contributed to his success as an inventor. Tasks throughout the document challenge students to think critically about inventors’ qualities, analyze Edison’s traits, and articulate opinions on what made him a remarkable innovator.

Contents

• Pages 1—21: Inventions and Edison instructions.
• Pages 22—35: Edison’s early life
• Pages 36—50: Edison’s early life番Traits and inventions

This section of the document provides tips and instructions for students to learn about the topic of inventions, focusing on Young Thomas Edison. The essential questions include understanding the skills and traits required to be an inventor. The students are encouraged to use strategies like summarizing and sequencing events. The text also includes a retelling of Young Thomas Edison’s story, emphasizing his early experimentation and interest in inventions. There are tasks for students to recall Edison’s inventions and understand the sequence of events in his life. Additionally, students are prompted to connect the text to themselves by asking questions and summarizing key events in Edison’s life that encouraged his experimentation.

This section of the document discusses the early life of Thomas Edison. It mentions that at age twelve, he sold newspapers on a train with the permission of the conductor. After an accident on the train, he went home and set up a laboratory with the encouragement of his mother. Despite facing disappointments and failures in his experiments, Edison continued to experiment and tinker with gadgets. The text highlights how Edison’s persistence and drive to innovate were evident from a young age.

This section discusses the early life and characteristics of Thomas Edison, focusing on his journey to becoming a great inventor. It mentions how he started showing interest in inventing at a young age, set up a laboratory in his family’s cellar, worked as a telegraph operator, and eventually invented significant devices like the carbon transmitter, phonograph, and electric light bulb. The text highlights traits that Edison possessed, such as curiosity, determination, and resilience in the face of setbacks. It also includes activities for students to articulate what qualities they think inventors should have, analyze Edison’s traits, and craft an opinion on what made him a remarkable inventor, emphasizing factors like his mother’s encouragement, curiosity, love for learning, and tolerance for failure. Furthermore, the section includes tasks for students to drag reasons in an opinion chart into the correct order and provide details supporting these reasons, like Edison’s continuous experimenting, thirst for knowledge, and ability to persevere despite failures. The section encourages students to reflect on their learning and offers guidance on completing writing tasks related to analyzing Edison’s traits and impact as an inventor.