American Inventors Web Quest Assessment

Reporter

Name____________________________ Project/Grade ____/200

Task: Which five American inventions have made the greatest impact on the way Americans live?

Research & Work Time - 20 pts _____

Focused on project always, mostly, about half of the time, somewhat, not much.

Project - 100pts ____

Five inventions (must be invented by Americans)

Inventors names

Where the inventors were from (birth or where lived as adult)

The year each invention was invented

Article:

Explanation of the improvement these inventions gave Americans at the time they were invented.

5 paragraphs including all of the information listed above.

Group Project - 30pts

Discussion/Decision time - focus and working as a team member to seriously chose the top five American inventions

Forcing your choices, doing nothing, playing around; Little participation, argumentative with group; Discussing choices, sharing your thoughts about why inventions should or should not be chosen as the top five.

Power Point Presentation - (group grade) 50pts

Group work (on task, polite, not bossy, not passive)
Follow directions in creating presentation (see handout for Power Point presentation)
Correct spelling, punctuation, grammar, and sentence structure
(you, as an individual, will lose points from this grade if you are rude while any group is showing their presentation)