Surfin Safari - Inventions

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Ed-Resources: Inventions has links and ideas to further your study of inventors		graciously donated by Jean Fisher find out more about Jean Discovering that the Chinese had toy helicopters centuries before man flew in helicopters made me curious. Let's learn more about ancient inventions. What bronze weapon invented by the Chinese could fire up to 650 feet? How did the Chinese first use gunpowder? What did the Chinese write on before they discovered paper? How were fireworks used? What did the Chinese call a wheelbarrow? What direction did your house have to face in order for you and nature to get along?

START HERE Guiding us on our safari today, September 15, 1998, is Northern Light. On your address bar, type in their address: http://www.northernlight.com In the search bar, type in the words: ancient inventions Hit: Search. A museum of ancient inventions sound like a good place for us to visit. Click on that link. Now click on the words "The Exhibit". Hmm. Only a couple of the picture captions give us clues as to which civilization invented these various items. We would need to click on the pictures to find out more. Let's see if we can find out if any of these were invented by the Chinese and then come back to this page. Use your back button to return to the Northern Light search page. Click on the search bar and use your delete or backspace key to erase the word ancient and replace it with the word chinese. Your search looks like this: chinese inventions. Right away we get a link that has a title that matches our key words. You can't ask for more than that! Click on that link. next column \| top of page		This chart tells us that the Chinese were the first to invent the crossbow. Click on the little yellow box next to the word crossbow on this chart. The information tells us that a Chinese text credits the invention of the crossbow to a Chinese man. Do you think the crossbow in the museum will be one made by the Chinese or not? Let's find out. Clicking your back button will return you to the link page on ancient inventions. Let's go back to the museum and click on the picture of the crossbow. Do you remember how to get there? Did you guess right about the pictured crossbow? Well, even though we can't see a Chinese crossbow, we know what it was made of and how far it could fire. Return to the chart that told us the Chinese invented the crossbow? Reread the instructions above if you need help getting there again. Click on the yellow boxes next to the word gunpowder and then the word paper to answer our next two safari questions. Want to see a picture of some ancient paper? Go back to our search results page. Scroll down to find a link titled "Chinese Inventions @ the Franklin Institute" . (I couldn't get into the link titled "Chinese Inventions") Click and enter. Some neat pictures, plus a hint on fireworks. Let's explore some more. next column \| top of page		Try the next link titled "Advanta: China Exhibit: Inventions". That's a wheelbarrow pictured up at the top. We know when it was invented, but not what it was called. Time to safari on! Click back to the search results page. This time I want to show you how to use a feature special to Northern Light--folders. First we put in our key words into the search bar. (Erase the old search to clear the bar.) Type in this search chinese AND invent AND first Hit: Search. Just above the search bar, we are informed that almost 5,000 items match our search. As we glance through the summaries of the first few results, we don't seen anything that relates our topic. It's time to let the folders narrow our search. Find them on the left side of the screen. The folder topic that seems most likely to tell us about items invented by the Chinese is: "History". Click on that word. Scroll down and look for information on Chinese inventions. The article titled "China" discusses inventions in the summary. Let's choose that link. We can find the answers to the rest of our safari questions in this article and much more. I really enjoyed having you along on this safari! Back to original questions next column \| top of page
Surfin' Safari is written and created by Jean Fisher whatsfor@ivillage.com. Jean is an elementary school teacher runs an internet business called "What's For Dinner?". Dedicated to providing support for busy parents who are trying to raise good kids in today's world.			Disclaimer: At the time of creation, this search engine query returned no inappropriate links. However, as the internet changes quickly the creator cannot be held responsible for any future unfavorable results. We highly recommend that children be closely supervised when using the internet.
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Zone Unit Studies Let's Go Surfin': Inventions

Zone Unit Studies
Let's Go Surfin': Inventions