Introduction
Introduction
This scavenger hunt will take you on a journey of how mistakes can become brilliant inventions! Take a look around the room, around the stores, around your home and ask yourself how did some of these items come to be?? This journey will help you appreciate some things you have in life that you take for granted, because if it weren't for some people trying new things... these items may have never been invented!!
Task
Your Task
Your job is to take a journey and search for answers among the websites provided to you. In the "Process" part of this scavenger hunt, you will find questions that you will need to answer. The only way to answer these questions is to click on the highlighted word or words you will find somewhere in the question. When you click on thehighlighted word or words, you will be transported to a website that will have the answer somewhere on the page. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper and when you have finished, please turn it in to your teacher.
Please write your answers in complete sentences!!
Process
1. According to this website, who invented Silly Putty ?
2. What was the original name given to this substance?
3. What two substances were mixed together to create Silly Putty?
4. What did Joseph McVicker invent?
5. Why did he invent this?
6. Who invented the Potato Chip?
7. What is the story behind the creation of this food?
8. What did Helen Murray Free invent that makes life easier for many people with a medical problem ?
9. Where was she born?
10. Why did Arthur Fry invent the Post-It Notes ?
11. What was the specific problem that he had that led him to the solution of his problem?
12. Who invented the glue on the post-it-notes?
13. What was the original name of Kool-Aid ?
14. Who invented it?
15. How old was he when he set up a mail order business?
16. Who was the inventor of Band-Aids ?
17. Why was Band-Aids invented?
18. What covered the tape and gauze in order to keep it sterile?
19. What company did this inventor work for?
20. How was the Popsicle invented?
21. Who was the inventor?
22. Who now owns the rights to the Popsicle?
23. When was Coca-Cola invented?
24. How did Dr. John Pemberton create Coca-Cola?
25. Who first scripted the Coca-Cola logo, and what was his job?
26. Who created the Slinky ?
27. What gave the creator the idea of making a toy?
28. What is the jingle (song) that goes along with the Slinky?
29. What did Clarence Crane manufacture before Life Savers ?
30. Why and when did he create Life Savers?