Inventors: Elijah McCoy, Levi Strauss, Margaret Knight, George Ferris

Notes from Famous Inventors: Week Three!

This falls under the category of a Second Grade study of Virtuous People. My list of all of the inventors I've found is on my website; here is what we did:

Week One Inventors were Leonardo da Vinci, Carl Linnaeus

Week Two Inventors were Benjamin Franklin, Louis Braille, Ada Lovelace, George Crum

Day Nine

• recall George Crum
• add George Crum to MLB (it is fun to make a border of potato chips around the edge of the page)
• read All Aboard! Elijah McCoy's Steam Engine by Monica Kulling

  

Day Ten

• recall Elijah McCoy
• add Elijah McCoy to MLB (it is fun to draw a large illustration of the oil cup and put your sentence inside it)
• read Levi Strauss Gets a Bright Idea: A Fairly Fabricated Story of a Pair of Pants by Tony Johnston

  

Day Eleven

• recall Levi Strauss
• add Levi Strauss to MLB (it is fun to write GOLD in big bubble letters and fill it in with gold colored pencil, and to draw lots of little people running all around)
• take apart a brown paper grocery bag along the seams to see how it is constructed
• read Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor by Emily Arnold McCully

  

Day Twelve

• recall Margaret Knight
• add Margaret Knight to MLB (it is fun to trim the top edge of the MLB page with a pair of deckle scissors, like the texture at the top of a brown paper bag)

  

• read Mr. Ferris and His Wheel by Kathryn Gibbs Davis

  

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