LEARN NC

K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Resources created by Melissa Reid

Asian, African, or Australian Inventors & Inventions
The lesson integrates both Social Studies and Language Arts in a research and a creative writing component. The student will further understand inventors or inventions from Asia, Africa, and Australia, the focused continents in the 7th grade Social Studies curriculum, as well as have the opportunity to develop his/her writing, reading, and oral communication skills. The project also incorporates mathematics with an emphasis on percentages and graphing.
Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts, Information Skills, Mathematics, and Social Studies)
By Jeff Rachlin and Melissa Reid.