Getting Started:

First, get to know about your invention. Read as much information about it as you can find. Try both the Internet and the library; try Zoom Inventors and Inventions http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/, a good search engine like Google.com, an encyclopedia, and individual books on inventors and inventions.

As you're reading about your invention, take notes on key information, such as what your invention does, who invented it, when it was invented, and how this invention helped people. Complete your Invention Data Sheet, then click on the writing directions to see how to put it all together.  This is a Social Studies/Language Arts Activity.

For Social Studies Extra credit, see the bottom of the Renaissance Sites page.