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= Intervention Interview Project = **__ Invention Interview Project __** ** TASK: ** You will be working with a partner to create an interview with an inventor of the Machine Age. The interview will be video taped. You will pretend that your inventor has come back to life today, 2011, and met a person of today. One of you will be I//nventor// and the other person will be //2011 Person//. The //2011 Person// will ask the //Inventor// about the invention of the past (1800’s) and the //Inventor// will ask the //2011 Person// about the invention today. ** CONNECT: ** Choose an invention/inventor from the late 1800’s –early 1900’s. This time period is called the Machine Age or the Industrial Revolution. You may choose an invention from my list. We have previously reviewed Inventors found in our textbook. ** WONDER: ** The interview must present the class with information that addresses the following Essential Questions: As you go through these databases to explore you invention/inventor you will be creating Guiding Questions to be used for your interview and for finding information/answers. (Please keep referring to the bulleted Essential points above to make sure you are on track)
 * How the invention changed the way people worked, played, or lived at the time of the invention
 * How the invention has changed over time

INVESTIGATE: ** You will be using provided books and the databases subscribed to by LHMS Library Media Center. These databases are not available to everyone on the Internet. These databases have been paid for, and require a username and a password. They provide reliable, expert information. Using these databases will prevent you from wasting time using unreliable sources that anyone can post on the Internet and pass off as factual. The databases and passwords are found at LHMS Library Media Center under the tab Resources, Databases, and Database Passwords. To login to the database password page use the code: lhms. ** CONSTRUCT: ** You will be recording your guiding questions, their answers, and the book/site where the information came from on a provided wiki linked to through the library website under the tab: Class Links. Label whether the question is asked by //Inventor// or //2011 Person.// Label the answer //Inventor// or //2011 Person.// ** EXPRESS: ** Your interviews will express what you’ve learned. We will be filming these interviews and sharing the completed videos with your classmates.

12/21- I have looked through your work so far. Many of you are cutting and pasting information from the data bases on your page. You need to use this information to write an interview between the inventor and the person of 2011. The questions need to be worded so that the essential questions above are addressed. Be sure at the start of the interview you let the audience know these basic background facts about your invention- //The name of the invention, the name of the inventor, and the year of the invention.-// When you write your questions and answers make it clear who is asking and who is answering- (inventor or 2011 person) one of you is the inventor the other is the 2011 person( be sure to give that person a name) Both the inventor and 2011 person asks and answers questions.

Be sure you are using your own words and not copying directly from the databases.