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Web Sites
Become An Inventor - A guide to finding and solving inventive problems, performing patent searches, and marketing ideas. Requires Flash plug-in. www.thinkquest.org/library/lib/site_sum_outside.html?tname=C006094&url=C006094
Great Inventions and Inventors - Elementary school students introduce some of the greatest minds and machines in the modern era. Includes timeline. www.thinkquest.org/library/lib/site_sum_outside.html?tname=5847&cid=2&url=5847
The American Experience: Forgotten Inventors - Highlights everyday items such as blue jeans or the can opener and tells about people who created them. www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/sfeature
The Headbone Derby: Invention Snatchers - Internet research adventure helps 4th-8th graders discover inventors from the past and learn how inventions come to be. www.headbone.com/derby/invent/main.b.html