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Students, here is your chance to become an amazing inventor. You will be in a small group. Your task is to select a piece of "junk" from your teachers' collection and come up with a NEW invention for your "junk". You will write an advertisement for your new invention, take photographs of your invention in action, and then create a web page to display your new invention. Remember to be creative and have fun!!! Follow the directions below to become an amazing inventor.
How to become an Amazing Inventor:
1. With your group, select one contraption from your teachers' "junk" collection.
2.
Brainstorm ideas of a way your group can create a completely NEW invention
for
your contraption (DO NOT USE WHAT THE CONTRAPTION IS REALLY
INVENTED FOR)
3.
After selecting an invention, your group will use a digital camera to take
photographs of your new invention in action.
4.
Using Adobe Photo Shop, you will resize your pictures in order to put them
on a web page. Save the pictures to your zip disk.
**Hints
for using Adobe Photoshop to resize pictures**
5.
Individually, write an advertisement about your invention. (Example:
A
water detector is not a water detector, it could be an alien/date finder.
Write
a descriptive advertisement about an alien/date finder.) There is
an
example of an advertisement found on the "example page."
6.
Using Microsoft Word, type your advertisement. Be sure to Spell
Check
and Proof Read your work!! SAVE YOUR WORK!!
7.
Using Netscape Composer, create your web page. You may copy and paste
your
advertisement and digital pictures onto your web page. Your teacher
will help you
with this part of the assignment if needed.
**Hints
for using Netscape Communicator to create web pages**
8. List the resources you used in your web page.
9. Be sure to include an email link on your web page.
10. After
you have completed your web page, email your teacher and describe the
progress you have made with your web page.
**Cite all online sources you may have used creating your web page**
You will be graded by the following rubric:
Grading Rubric
| Assignment | Beginning
1 Point |
Developing
2 Points |
Mastered
3 Points |
Superior
4 Points |
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Does not participate with group on any part of the assignment | Participates with group some of the time, but is not engaging in full participation | Participates with group most of the time, offers brainstorming ideas, but continues to get off task | Participates with group all of the time, offering brainstorming ideas throughout the assignment and works well with other group members | |
| Advertisement and Digital Photographs | Does not create an advertisement or digital photographs | Creates advertisement that contains little detail and many errors; few photographs that are unclear | Creates advertisement with few errors. Creative details of invention; contains clear photographs from digital camera | Advertisement free of grammatical errors, creative details of invention; contains many clear pictures from digital camera | |
| Web Page Construction | Does not construct a web page, or constructs a web page that does not meet requirements | Constructs a web page, but no links or photographs are provided: Web page has many errors, and poor organization | Constructs a well organized web page with few errors, digital photographs | Constructs a well organized web page, containing no errors, creative ideas, and meets all requirements of assignment |
| Master Page | Teacher Page | Student Page | Example |