African American Inventors

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African American Inventors

February is Black History Month. We are taking February 10-12 to recognize various African American Inventors.

For this project, students will be viewing a video on American inventors. Next, we will go to the computer lab to research three different African-American inventors and their accomplishments. Then the students will take that information to complete an activity on the inventors and share it with classmates.

A list of African American inventors to choose from:

Benjamin Banneker, Otis Boykin, Charles W. Buggs, George R. Carruthers, John B. Christian, Vance H. Marchbanks Jr., Rufus Stokes, J. Ernest Wilkins Jr., Meredith Gourdine, Theodore K. Lawless, Percy Julian, William A. Hinton, Louis T. Wright, Ernest W. Just, Madame C.J.Walker, Frederick M. Jones, H.C. Webb, Daniel H. Williams, George Washington Carver, Lewis H. Latimer, Garrett A. Morgan, Elijah McCoy, Granville T. Woods, Norbert Rillieux, Jan Ernst Matzeliger, James Forten, Charles H. Turner, Charles R. Drew

Use one of these web sites to find out accomplishments of your inventors.

http://web.mit.edu/invent/i-archive.html en espanol

http://www.uwm.edu/StudentOrg/NSBE/bie.html#1 en espanol

http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/faces.html en espanol

Remember, you need to choose 3 different inventors and find out what they accomplished, not basic background information. What are they known for? Why is this person on the list of African American inventors?

Why is the word abbreviation so long?