b8u3reading1.ppt

An amphibious car Stephenson’s “Rocket” DNA Work out rules that will help you decide what is discovery and what is an invention? (1) A discovery is A discovery merely makes known something that already exist in nature, such as the discovery on the New Continent by Columbia. (2) An invention is something that created by human being, such as the lighting rod. Do you know the stages every inventor must go through before they can have their invention approved? Here give you some similar stages used in research, please out them in the suitable order. 1.what was the mother upset about? 2. Why was the writer happy to help her mother? When I called up my mother in the countryside on the telephone she was very upset. There are some snakes in our courtyard, she told me. Snakes come near the house now and then, and they seem to have made their home here, not far from the walnut tree. Can you get rid of them please? I felt very proud. Here was a chance for me to distinguish myself by inventing something merciful that would catch snakes but not harm them. I knew my parents would not like me to hurt these living creatures! The first thing I did was to see if there were any products that might help me, but there only seemed to be powders designed to kill snakes. A new approach was clearly needed. I set about researching the habits of snakes to find the easiest way to trap them. Luckily these reptiles are small and that made the solution easier. Prepared with some research findings, I decided on three possible approaches: firstly, removing their habitat; secondly, attracting them into a trap using male or female perfume or food; and thirdly cooling them so that they would become sleepy and could be easily caught. I decided to use the last one. I bought an ice-cream maker which was made of stainless steel. Between the outside and the inside walls of the bowl there is some jelly