A history mystery activity by Kathy Applebee
This interdisciplinary activity unit is one your students will remember long after the test!
Studying history must encompass more than passive absorption of facts, names, dates, and places and regurgitating them on a test. Real historical understanding also requires that students have authentic opportunities to create historical narratives of their own.

Students who engage in this activity will investigate an inventor with multiple sources, compare multiple points of view and be better prepared to understand the course of human events.

Your 37 page director packet contains everything you need to get students researching an inventor so they can become at the awards ceremony. (download free preview for complete list and samples) Rationale for using as a teaching tool and national standards of learning addressed with this activity and additional activities, internet and print resource lists are included

The 1800s were very exciting! Inventors—like Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell—were busy making the world an "easier" place to live; while millionaires like Carnegie and Rockefeller were raking in the bucks! Cities were bustling with immigrants and people who had moved to find factory work.

Everyone is talking about which inventor will be named Inventor of the 19th Century. Not only will the title bring great honor and prestige, a sizable monetary award from an anonymous donor could open the door for the inventor to do even greater experimentation and create even greater inventions.

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