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Fourth-graders bring famous inventors to life
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Neighbors | Submitted.A group of Dobbins fourth-graders recently showed off their projects on famous inventors. The students are, from left, Jacob Kountz, Isabella Stanich, Cailor Sundstrom, and Chase Wern, with their projects on inventors, also from left, Hugh Moore, Ralph Samuelson, Enro Rubik, and Arthur Campton.
By SARAH FOOR
On Nov. 22, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, John Deere and many others visited Dobbins Elementary.
The famous inventors didn’t visit the school in person, of course, but instead arrived as busts that became part of the fourth-graders’ Hall of Inventors.
The projects were part of study on technology and how inventions have changed the world.
The history lesson began when fourth-grade teachers Elaine Morlan and Sharyn DiMuzio and their students visited the Rose Melnick Medical Museum at Youngstown State University. There, the students saw how medical inventions like the iron lung changed the way patients were treated.
“The inventions of the last few centuries have completely transformed our world. We wanted the students to understand how one simple idea can turn into something much bigger,” Morlan said of the project.
The fourth-graders completed their research in class and were responsible at home to decorate a paper-mache bust to resemble the subject of their report.
In Morlan’s classroom, the students explored the inventors further with quizzes and poetry. DiMuzio’s students were required to complete an oral presentation on their subjects.
The Hall of Inventors was open in the school’s all-purpose room for all to see and enjoy. Along with the busts, posters exploring the history of the inventor and a timeline of their life were displayed, and each inventor included a note card where the students answered what their inventor created and how it changed how people lived.