Grade Six Science Invention Links

Grade 6 Science

Invention Links

Below you will find a list of web sites which focus on inventions and

technology.

To access these sites just point and click on their names.

1. The Museum of Radio and Technology

http://ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu/~post/MRT/

This site focuses on radios only.

2. Invention Dimension

http://web.mit.edu/invent/

This site has an index of inventors and inventions. You can find almost anything here! Just click on archives.

In addition, this site is linked to many other invention sites. Just click on Links and scroll down to kids sites.

3. Inventors

http://www.deerlake.leon.k12.fl.us/invent.html

This site has information about inventors including Franklin, Bell,

Edison and others. . .

This is an interesting site, but it doesn't always work. If you have trouble with it just move on to the next.

4. National Inventors Hall of Fame

http://www.invent.org/book/

This site has an index of inventors and inventions. This list includes some unusual entries!

In addition, this site has an invention search engine which will take you to many other great invention sites.

5. Discovery Online: Inventors and Inventions

http://www.discovery.com/past/stories/moreinventors.html

This site has a few articles about inventions.

6. How Stuff Works

http://www.howstuffworks.com/index.html

This is a fun interactive site which didn't work last time I tried it.

7. NASA

http://www.NASA.gov

This is a huge site.

It will take some time to find what you are looking for.

8. Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village

http://www.hfmgv.org/histories/

This site has information about Ford, Edison, and the Wright brothers.

9. Inventors Online Museum

http://www.inventorsmuseum.com/museum_map.htm

This site includes information about transportation, space travel and African American inventors.

In addition this site has links to many other related sites.

10. American Inventors and Inventions

http://www.150.si.edu/150trav/remember/amerinv.htm

This site includes information about the light bulb, telephone, telegraph, computer, sewing machine and much more.

11. This URL contains links to a number of other related sites. You may find these sites useful.