Read through all the stages before beginning your work.

First Stage:

1. Review the suggested links that have been provided for you.

2. Inform Mrs. Lange about your selection by writing the inventor's name down and turning it into her by Friday, January 14th.

In the second part of this stage, you will access the links provided in the resource section and answer the following questions. The answers to the following will be included in your written report.

3. Who is your inventor? When was he/she born?

4. What did your inventor create?

5. When was the invention created? Was it patented?

6. Where did the inventor live?

7. How did this invention help society?

8. Include a reaction to what you have learned about your inventor.

9. Did the inventor encounter any obstacles in creating his/her product? What were they? How did he/she overcome them?

10. How did the inventor come up with his/her idea?

Second Stage:

1. You will prepare a five paragraph report about your inventor.

2. Create a bibliography.

3. Attach the bibliography to the report and turn it in by Tuesday, January 18.

Third Stage:

You will present your work to the class.

Before submitting your paper, read the evaluation requirements on the evaluation page to see how your individual tasks will be graded.

Graphic Organizer

1.Narrative Biographies

2.Notable Black American Scientists

3.World of Inventions

1.Narrative Biographies:

2.Encyclopedia of World Biography Supplement, Vol. 20.

3.Notable Black American Scientists

4.World of Invention, 2nd ed.

5.Thumbnail Biographies - Almanac of Famous People

1.Dictionary of American Biography

2.Contemporary Black Biography

3.Encyclopedia of World Biography Supplement

4.Notable Black American Men

5.Notable Black American Scientists

6.World of Invention

7.Thumbnail Biographies - Almanac of Famous People

1.Narrative Biographies

2.Dictionary of American Biography

3.Encyclopedia of World Biography Supplement

4.Notable Black American Men

5.Notable Black American Scientists

6.World of Invention

7.Webster's Biographical Dictionary

8.Almanac of Famous People

1.Contemporary Black Biography

2.Encyclopedia of World Biography Supplement

3.Notable Black American Men

4.Notable Black American Scientists

5.Notable Scientists: From 1900 to the Present.

6.World of Invention

7.Almanac of Famous People

1.Contemporary Black Biography

2.Business Leader Profiles for Students

3.Encyclopedia of World Biography

4.Notable Black American Women

5.St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture

6.Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History

7.World of Invention

8.Dictionary of American Biography

9.This Week in Black History

10.About this Issue: Black Enterprise

1.Jet, Madame C.J. Walker

11.Businessman Harold E. Doley Jr. buys estate of the late Madame C.J. Walker in New York.-Jet

12.Almanac of Famous People

13.Merriam-Webster's Biographical Dictionary

1.Contemporary Black Biography

2.American Decades CD-ROM

3.Contemporary Heroes and Heroines

4.Encyclopedia of World Biography

5.Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History

6.Notable Black American Men

7.Notable Black American Scientists

8.Notable Scientists: From 1900 to the Present

9.St. James Guide to Black Artists

10.World of Biology

11.World of Chemistry

12.World of Genetics

13.World of Invention

14.Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement 3: 1941-1945

15.Merriam-Webster's Biographical Dictionary

16.Almanac of Famous People

17.PR Newswire, United States Military Looking for a Few Good Men and Women, HONORING DR. GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER. (Brief Article) Jet

18.The Reader's Companion to American History

1.Contemporary Black Biography

2.Encyclopedia of World Biography

3.Notable Black American Men

4.Notable Black American Scientists

5.Notable Scientists: From 1900 to the Present

6.World of Invention

7.Almanac of Famous People

1.Contemporary Black Biography

2.Notable Black American Scientists.

3.Notable Scientists: From 1900 to the Present

4.World of Invention

5.Marquis Who’s Who

1.Notable Scientists: From 1900 to the Present

2.Almanac of Famous People

1.Contemporary Black Biography

2.Notable Black American Scientists

3.Notable Scientists: From 1900 to the Present

4.Almanac of Famous People

5.Who's Who Among African Americans

1.Encyclopedia of World Biography

2.Notable Scientists: From 1900 to the Present

3.Notable Women Scientists

4.World of Anatomy and Physiology

5.World of Biology

6.World of Chemistry

7.World of Healthv

8.Microbiology and Immunology

9.World of Scientific Discovery

10.Almanac of Famous People

11.Marquis Who’s Who

1.Notable Scientists: From 1900 to the Present.

2.Notable Women Scientists

3.World of Biology

4.World of Chemistry

5.World of Microbiology and Immunology

6.World of Scientific Discovery

7.Almanac of Famous People

1.Marquis

1.Notable Hispanic American Women

2.Notable Women Scientists

3.Marquis Who's Who