210Research

Posted by Mr. White, Mon 4/19 4:30 PM The fifth grade research group, meeting from 2:00 to 3:00 Monday through Wednesday, will be introduced to filtered email accounts at dps.gaggle.net on Tuesday, April 20, 2010. Previous work can be seen at etherpad.com/210research

Here are some excerpts: My name is Na'Tierra, and the topic I'm working on is to look up is the history of the first car invented and the other cars to be invented after the first car was invented. The car that I'm really going to focus on is the first car to be invented and the car that's called the Volvo. After I am done looking up the history of the first car invented, I will look up the history of the first watch to be invented.

Mr. W: I am going to put an example of a project here. My topic is hybrid cars. Specifically, I want to learn about the invention of the kind of car that can run on gasoline engine or electric motor, or a mix of power from both. Step 1. Google "hybrid car" I see 17,300,000 hits, so I want to narrow it down a bit. using the search term "hybrid car invention" I found http://www.hybridcars.com/history.html (side trip: here is a diagram of a 100 year old hybrid gas-electric car:) http://www.hybridcars.com/history/100th-anniversary-first-us-hybrid-car-patent-25616.html http://www.hybridcars.com/history/100th-anniversary-first-us-hybrid-car-patent-25616.html The hybrid car is not that new. This site says there was a patent for a hybrid car on March 2, 1909. A guy named Henri Pieper proposed a car with a combustion engine and a dynamo (electric generator)