Goal: Students will create individual tombstones marking the lives and achievements of leading inventors and innovators from the Industrial Revolution. Together, these tombstones will form a classroom graveyard.
Instructions: Using a person from the list below, you will create an aesthetically pleasing (nice-looking) tombstone complete with the following information (written correctly):
Click on the link below for the full assignment sheet
| Abraham Darby Alexander Graham Bell Cyrus W. Field Edward Cartwright Eli Whitney Elias Howe George Stephenson George Westinghouse Gottlieb Daimler Guglielmo Marconi Henry Bessemer Henry Cort Henry Ford Isaac Singer James B. Hill James Hargreaves James Watt John Ericsson John Kay |
John McAdam John Smeaton Lee de Forest Leo Baekeland Nikola Tesla Orville Wright Ottmar Mergenthaler Richard Arkwright Richard Hoe Robert Fulton Rudolf Diesel Samuel Crompton Samuel F.B. Morse Samuel Slater Thomas Edison Thomas Newcomen Thomas Telford Vladimir Zworykin Wilbur Wright |
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