What to do for extra credit:

(ideas from Stephen Tchudi)

light bulb radio refrigerator tractor medicine

telephone ipod automobile typewriter computer

digital photography television printing press airplane boats

*Where did it come from? Read the history of various devices and inventions.

Write a report, including:

*What was the inventor like?

*What would life be like without the technology?

or

*Write a short story describing a life without one or several devices.

Or a science fiction story projecting the technology into the future, exaggerating the consequences.

*Choose an invention you like and learn how it works. Plan an oral demonstration.

*Describe a time capsule to be opened by students in 25 years. Include descriptions and notes, of what you would include and why?.

*Do some historical research into new technologies in one of the decades of the 20^th Century

*Make a search of the cleaning cabinet around your home—the place where cleaning supplies are kept.

*From a list of famous scientists, read up on one of them and do some writing about the person's life..