Introduction
Welcome to the quest of finding out how life would be without black people.This webquest will review some of what the world would be like if there were no black people to contrubite to society.
Task
Your task is to complete :
- research ( answer the questions)
-write a letter to the person you chose.
-create an art display inspired by black inventors who made things you could not live without
(you may search on the internet for art to go with the person you have chosen)
Examples for Your art display
Garret Morgen made the stop light
Alfred Cralle: inventor of the ice-cream scoop
Michael Havery inventor of a lantern.
Process
Read the selection from the links below:
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-america-would-be-like-without-blacks/
Chose one Inventor from this list in the link below and write them a letter
https://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/inventor_list.html
You must have the following in the letter
-questions you would like to ask them
-why you think their invention is important
-the things you learned about them that were cool
Complete 4 of the 9 research questions below to help you understand the person you have chosen.(Write in complete sentences and write the question down.)
1) What is the inventor’s family background?
2) What is the educational background?
3) What are the inventions they made?
4) Can you describe your inventions and how they work?
5) Which inventions are very important to you if the black inventor had more than one invention?
6) Do you think it was hard for some of these inventors to prove themselves and their inventions because of their skin color?
7) Why do you think that some of these inventors are not well known today?
8) What obstacles did these inventors face?
9)How might the inventors and the things they created be influenced by the times in which they lived?