Modern Electronic Inventions: Changing the Way People Live
Roberta Mazzucco
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Primarily this unit is attempting to be as hands on as possible. I hope to have the science in the form of experiments as the centerpiece of the unit. The unit will pick out a few of the milestones in the development of modern electronics and discuss it using a demonstrating experiment as the starting point. In this way the students will discover the same principles and hopefully see a progression in learning that occurred over hundreds of years. In this way students can see that inventions or new ideas are seldom the work of one person but are usually the fulfillment of the work of many people. The inventor who is credited with a find or breakthrough may even uncover something he/she does not recognize as a new idea. Sometimes, as in the case of the telephone, two people each working on their own make the same discovery.