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Hello All, Recently I posted a request to know when students study inventors and inventions in your libraries. Thanks to the 35 who responded. Several people asked that I post a hit. The compiled results are below. The summary is as follows: Grade 3-->6; Grade 4-->12; Grade 5-->6; Grade 6-->5; Grade 7-->2; Grade 8-->2; Grade 9-->2. Best, Toni Buzzeo -- Toni Buzzeo, MA, MLIS Maine Library Media Specialist of the Year Emerita Longfellow School LMC <buzzeocyll@mix-net.net> Portland, ME THIRD GRADE 1) Our third graders in North Central Illinois study inventors and inventions. Rachel Woodyer Media Aide Pre-8 Grand Ridge Grade School Grand Ridge, Il 61325 2) Our 3rd graders study inventors & inventions. Nancy Myers St. Andrew School Panama City, FL myersnl@mail.bay.k12.fl.us n.myers@mciworld.com 3) Mostly grade 3 - to correspond with "Invention Convention" that is done each spring (around late March) Suzanne Weinheimer, Librarian South Orange - Maplewood School District, NJ email - sweinhei@somsd.k12.nj.us http://www.southmountain.somsd.k12.nj.us 4) I am writing from an elementary school in Frisco, Texas, which is near Dallas. My 3rd and 5th graders study inventors and inventions. They read the biographies and use the encyclopedias and the Internet for research. MUSICALJK@aol.com 5) In my district, students study inventors in third grade. Biographies are core genre of the Language Arts program in this grade and include Thomas Edison, Ben Franklin, and George Washington Carver. Valerie Waldmann Eastchester, NY newsctr@aol.com 6) Our 3rd graders study inventors. Lee Ann Kee Library Media Assistant St. Richard's School Indianapolis, IN lkee@strichards.k12.in.us FOURTH GRADE 1) Our 4th graders do Invention Convention, and (yes!) I am always searching for biographies or biographical information of inventors for them. The information is not that easy to find. If you find some good ones, please share. I buy everything that I see that is not too sophisticated. Connie Welch, Librarian O.L.P.H. School Grove City, OH 43123 cwelch@SoftHome.net 2) Our fourth graders do an extensive unit on inventors. They include biography reports, dress-up oral reports, and I assist with biography skills lessons. Great opportunity for in-depth collaboration! Deb Deborah A. Monck, Media Specialist Meadow Park Elementary School Port Charlotte, FL 33952 monckstr@sunline.net 3) At my school it depends on the teacher but 4th and5th mostly. I'm in Southern Oregon in a k5. Georgia Richards Library Media Specialist Walker Elementary School Ashland, Or (home)garlic@mind.net (school)georgia.richards@ashland.k12.0r.us 4) In North Carolina inventions are on the social studies curriculum in fourth grade. They study the inventions and the process more than the inventors, but they do study biographies in language arts as part of the genre studies. Carol Savage <c.savage@cms.k12.nc.us> 5) Fourth graders do it at my school in Minnesota. "Kristi Henkels" <henkelsk@westonka.k12.mn.us> 6) I'm in PORTLAND, OREGON......4th grade for inventors. John Wolfgang <wolfgang@teleport.com> 7) I am writing from a K-5 school in Massachusetts. The fourth grade in my school does inventors and inventions, usally reading the biographies of inventors and doing some project with them. Janet Janet Rawdon Librarian Lincoln-Eliot School Newton MA 02458 jrawdon@massed.net 8) I work in a K-5 school in a region that has 4 elementaries in Connecticut. All fourth graders study inventors and inventions as part of their Social studies curriculum with a time frame of 1850 to 1960. hope this helps. Pat ===== Pat Smith Library Media Specialist, K-5 Pomperaug Elementary School Southbury, Connecticut pasmith125@yahoo.com 9) Minnesota - 4th grade Audrey Novak <audrey.novak@kimball.k12.mn.us> 10) Our fourth grade teachers do biographies while studying Inventors. Barb Sears Barb Sears <SearsB@leb.k12.in.us> Lebanon, Indiana 11) 4th graders--in Michigan Rhonella Brelinski brelinsk@scnc.csd.k12.mi.us Columbia School District Brooklyn, MI 49249 12) Our 4th grade students have an invention/inventors unit. Jeanne Clark, Librarian Mission West Elementary Houston, TX jlclark26@hotmail.com 129jc016@fortbend.k12.tx.us FIFTH GRADE 1) 5th grade. Carol Harma, Thurston Elem, Springfield, Oregon 2) Our school studies inventors in the fifth grade! Since New York is only semi-organized, I cannot vouch for other schools. Sandy "sandra lubert" <samora@optonline.net> 3) Before this school, I worked in a private school where they studies inventions in the fifth grade. They even designed their own inventions and let all the elementary classes come through and see how they worked. Miffie Wright Jonestown Elem Lib Jonestown, MS 4) Here in MA I have had these requests from Grade 5. I hope this helps. Jean Rowan LMS Downey Community School Brockton MA bjrowan@mediaone.net 5) Our 5th graders (Calhoun, Georgia) are currently doing reports on inventors and inventions. Julie Stephens JECS57@aol.com 6) we had a fifth grade teacher do a bang up job with inventors a few years ago, and then she moved onto Virginia jonie fitzsimmons MIRLS mountainside elementary ft. carson, co "J Fitzsimmons" <jfitz77@rmi.net> SIXTH GRADE 1) 6th grade NJ Josephine Dervan <rderva@infi.net> 2) Last year, Toni, our sixth graders studied inventors and inventions in tech lab. We have a different teacher this year so I'm not sure if they will. We're in Holbrook, Ariona, next door to the Navajo Nation. Our school population is about 65% Navajo with a smattering of Apache, Hopi and Zuni kids, 10 or 15% Hispanic, and 20% Caucasian. Not that it matters--just reporting! Marilyn Johnson <mjohns@husd3.holbrook.k12.az.us> 3) I'm in Dallas, Texas and my sixth grade science teachers have the students study black inventors as part of their class in the month of February every year. We are an all black inner city school. Gail "Roberta Shipley" <robertashipley@hotmail.com> 4) My 6th graders just finished a paper on inventors and inventions. Mary Jean Lowance Librarian/Media Specialist 125 S. 13th Street Harlingen, Texas 78850 mlowance@harlingen.isd.tenet.edu 5) In our middle school (6,7,8) inventors are a part of the sixth grade science curriculum. There is much local control in New Hampshire when it comes to curriculum, "Fran Johnson" <fjohnson@newfound.k12.nh.us> SEVENTH GRADE 1) My 7th grade teams do inventions/inventors in science. They culminate in a "Rube Golberg" exhibition where all the kids demonstrate their inventions. Liz McMahon Williams Jr. High Oakland, ME lmcmahon@sad47.k12.me.us 2) My name is Barbara Willingham and I'm a Teacher/Librarian at a secondary school in Woy Woy, Australia (about 70 kilometres North of Sydney). At our school students start studying inventors and inventions in Year 7, which is their first year at secondary school (ages 12 or 13). Obviously the depth of study increases as they get older. "Barbara Willingham" <bigbubbles@idl.net.au> EIGHTH GRADE 1) We do them at 8th grade in Marshall, Michigan! Happy hunting. Marsha Lambert, Marshall Middle School, Marshall Michigan 2) 8th graders do this in Technology class. Some 5th graders do this in GT classes. Bernie Tomasso Library Media Specialist Port Byron Central School 30 Maple Ave Port Byron NY 13140-9647 NINTH GRADE 1) In British Columbia (Canada) our students study inventors and inventing in Social Studies 9 in conjunction with a unit on the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions. Diane Gallagher-Hayashi Teacher-Librarian Stelly's School Saanich School District (63) 1627 Stelly's Xroad Saanichton, British Columbia Canada, V8M 1S8 Diane_Hayashi@sd63.bc.ca 2) Ninth graders in my school do reports on inventions and inventors. Robert Otte South Christian High School Grand Rapids, MI =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. To quit LM_NET (or set-reset NOMAIL or DIGEST), send email to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST 4) SET LM_NET MAIL * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv. 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