1. Inventors

2. Activity Force for change Read 7,10 and 11 - Draw a table: Inventor
Invention

3. Transportation Booklet
Groups of 3
Choose 3 inventions from your page
Record the following:
What is it?
Who invented it?
What it does?
Picture of it
Present findings to the class
(select one invention each and report to class)

4. Recap: Name some New Zealanders and their inventions.
Name some transportation inventions.

5. New Zealand Inventors Henry Wigley- Aircraft Skis
Robert Dickie- Stamp vending machine
Bill Hamilton- Jet Boat
Peter Witehira- Car battery that never goes flat

6. Transportation Inventions
Airplane – Wright Brothers
Bicycle- Comte Mede de Sivrac
Caravel (sailing ship)
Car- Henry Ford
Hot-air balloon-Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier
Motorcycle
Parachute
Scooter

7. SKILL: TIMELINES A History of Transportation Technology
How to construct a timeline…

8. Steps: Decide on time interval dates (needs to be an even scale)
Decide on a scale (10cm=10 years)
Draw a line down middle of page from the first date to the last ( )
Mark and label each time interval down the scale (1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015)
Draw arrows to the exact date of the invention on the line and write the information beside them
Choose an appropriate title with dates
Use a ruler

9. Put these inventions into a timeline
1936- Helicopter invented
1867- First motorcycle invented
1913- Model T. Ford produced
1804- First train trip
1765- Steam engine developed
1903- Wright brothers flight
1790- Bicycle invented
1782- First hot air balloon flight