Vocabulary Builder Course 7

Lesson 25:

Activity Lesson Plans

Introduction
Students have studied words related to static electricity.

Lesson Description
Students will visit The National Park Service’s Edison National Historic Site home page and use information they find there to answer three short-answer questions.

Instructional Objectives

1. Students will explore the student activities on the Edison National Historic Site Web site. The National Park Service’s Edison National Historic Site home page
2. Students will use their understanding of vocabulary words to answer three short-answer questions.

Web Quest Activity Answers

1. Answers may vary. Edison blamed the debilitation of his hearing on being picked up by the ears as a child, but his father and his son suffered a similar loss, which suggests it was hereditary.
2. Answers may vary. Students might choose the risible story about Edison trying to hatch goose eggs by sitting on them or the one about his invention of a machine that talked to the dead.
3. Lewis H. Latimer was one of many inventors who improved on Edison’s incandescent electric light bulb. Latimer invented and patented a filament that made light bulbs last longer. Afterwards, he took a job with Edison’s company and become one of the “Edison Pioneers,” which suggests that there was no vendetta or ill feeling between the two men.

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