Automobile

Automobile is invented by Ferdinand Verbiest who was a member of a Jesuit mission China around 1672. It was a small steam-powered vehicle and the gift for the Chinese Emperor. It couldn't carry a driver or a passenger, but it was the first working automobile. After this event, lots of tries to develope the automobile. In 1888, Karl Benz started to mass-produce the gasoline vehicles. Invention of automobile affects human life a lot. Before invention of automobile, it took long time to go to other places. But as automobiles invented the time we spend to move reduced. There are some weak points of automobile, such as air pollution and traffic accidents, but it makes us comfortable.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile

Cr. A Inventions and inventors

We were introduced about our new unit 'inventions and inventors'. We watched two videos about Benjamin Fanklin and Leonardo Da Vinci. Thses gae us background information about inventors. And we realize that inventors are multi-talented and have some same qualities. We made a list of it. Intelligence, creative, and risk-takers are the qualities that we added in the list. For the next, we did multiple intelligences in quiz which is in our planner. It was finding out the type of intelligences what you have. Some of us had the same results, but most of us had different intelligences. After this activity some students drew the unit poster.