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Top 10 Inventions in Human History

What would you say is the most important invention in all of human history? See if your answer makes the cut...

Do you think 🤔 that they missed something? Can you write an argument to persuade them to include your idea?

  • Tell us what the item is
  • Provide us with upto three reasons why it should be there. (Remember to use connectives like also and plus to link the evidence together).
  • Remind us what the item is.

Take a moment to think about the people who developed these ideas 💡. Do you think you have what it takes? Find out below!

Wallace & Gromit: Cracking Contraptions: Snoozatron

Wallace is an inventor who do tries to solve his day to day problems with cracking contraptions. Do you have a irritating issue that you would like to solve? Think about all potential solutions and then how these can be combined into one marvellous machine. Sketch it and label all its fabulous features.

 

If you are short of ideas there are plenty of ideas to look at on the website below including 

Draw magic sweets and draw or write what happens when you eat them. This reminded of two plot events in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.  Our virtual visit this week is to the Roald Dahl museum. 

For visit: 

https://www.roalddahl.com/museum/visit/virtual-museum-tour

 

For challenges:

Adam’s invention

Animation activities

Find out more about the process used by Nick Park in this mixture of activities.
Can you think of an adventure when your contraption goes crazy? Create you own cartoon masterpiece using one of these templates.

Design your own comic adventure

Wallace and Gromit colouring


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