Celebrating St George's Day

We created scripts, characters and an animation to tell the story of St George and the Dragon as an animation!!

NEWS FLASH : DRAGON ATTACKS MAN!!!

Find out more from our on the scene reporters...

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/short-stories/george-and-the-dragon

Making compasses in science

Finding out more about ... inventors

A few resources to help you with your research on inventors...

Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century
www.greatachievements.org/ 

History of Inventions: Inventions That Changed the Way We Live
/www.cbc.ca/kids/

Top 10 Inventions and Inventors of All Time
http://library.thinkquest.org/J001725/openingpage.html?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0613 

Biographies of inventors:

http://www.ducksters.com/biography/scientists/scientists_and_inventors.php

 

Henry Ford
www.cbc.ca/kids/ 

Eli Whitney
http://www.eliwhitney.org/ew.htm 

Thomas Alva Edison
www.nps.gov/edis/big-three.htm 

Orville and Wilbur Wright
http://www.firstflight.org/shrine/wright_brothers.cfm 

Finding out more about inventions...

There are lots of links for kids about inventions and inventors on the internet.

You can search using terms like:
Inventions for kids
History of the ____ for kids
Who invented the _____?

If you are stuck for an answer, these sites can also help...

Zoom Inventors and Inventions
www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/indexc.shtml 

History of Inventions
www.cbc.ca/kids/

National Inventors Hall of Fame: Index of Inventions
www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/1_1_search.asp