Two Rivers Guides: Science 6: Inventors

Websites

Famous Black Inventors
This website provides biographies on famous black inventors.
Famous Inventors: Biography.com
This website provides biographies on famous inventors.
Famous Women Inventors
This website provides biographies about famous women inventors.
Great Inventors and Their Inventions
This website provides 12 stories of great inventors and their inventions in steam and electric power, manufacturing and production, and printing and communication. It also introduces the famous inventors of the early twentieth century.
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Scroll down to the list of inventors on the left hand side of the page and then click on the links.
Inventions and Discoveries Guide
This website provides a list of inventions and biographies about inventors.
Invention Stories
This website lets you explore the stories of inventors and their inventions, both famous and little-known. Click on the magnifying glass in the lower right hand corner and type in your topic.
Inventor Archive: MIT
This website provides biographies of inventors in the fields of medicine and healthcare, consumer products, transportation, energy and environment, and computing and telecommunications.
National Inventors Hall of Fame
This website provides biographies of inventors who have been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Type in your inventor in the search box.

Research Databases

Explora for Middle and High Schools This link opens in a new window
This database has articles, essays, primary sources, and videos. You can download articles to Google Drive.
No username or password is required. Provided by Badgerlink. This database is free to all Wisconsin residents. You can also log on using your student ID. Click on “Library Card Access” on the right side of the web page, scroll down to Two Rivers School District and type in “trsd” and your student ID number.
Funk and Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia This link opens in a new window
Encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
No username or password is required. Provided by Badgerlink. This database is free to all Wisconsin residents. You can also log on using your student ID. Click on “Library Card Access” on the right side of the web page, scroll down to Two Rivers School District and type in “trsd” and your student ID number.
MAS Complete This link opens in a new window
This database is designed for high school students. It includes articles, reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and images. You can download articles to Google Drive.
No username or password is required. Provided by Badgerlink. This database is free to all Wisconsin residents. You can also log on using your student ID. Click on “Library Card Access” on the right side of the web page, scroll down to Two Rivers School District and type in “trsd” and your student ID number.
Middle Search Plus This link opens in a new window
This database provides full text resources for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. It also has thousands of biographies, historical essays, primary sources, maps, videos, and photos. You can download articles to Google Drive.
No username or password is required. Provided by Badgerlink. This database is free to all Wisconsin residents. You can also log on using your student ID. Click on “Library Card Access” on the right side of the web page, scroll down to Two Rivers School District and type in “trsd” and your student ID number.
Primary Search This link opens in a new window
This database provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. Resources also include biographies, articles, primary sources, images, and videos. You can download articles to Google Drive.
No username or password is required. Provided by Badgerlink. This database is free to all Wisconsin residents. You can also log on using your student ID. Click on “Library Card Access” on the right side of the web page, scroll down to Two Rivers School District and type in “trsd” and your student ID number.
Gale in Context: Middle School This link opens in a new window
This database full text magazines, newspaper articles, reference books, podcasts and/or broadcast transcripts, images, and video.
It can be accessed from school or home. Contact the LMC for the username and password.
Science Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Full-text science-oriented encyclopedias, reference books and periodicals covering all areas of science. You can download articles to Google Drive.
No username or password is required. Provided by Badgerlink. This database is free to all Wisconsin residents. You can also log on using your student ID. Click on “Library Card Access” on the right side of the web page, scroll down to Two Rivers School District and type in “trsd” and your student ID number.
SIRS Discoverer This link opens in a new window
This database includes full-text articles and images from more than 1,900 domestic and international newspapers, magazines, government documents, and educational weblinks.
This database can be accessed from school and at home. Contact the LMC for the username and password.
World Book Student This link opens in a new window
This database includes the articles of the World Book Encyclopedia, a Biography Center, dictionary, atlas, a multimedia collection, and editor-selected websites.
This resource can be accessed from school and home. Contact the LMC for the username and password.

Science 6: Inventors

Inventors and Inventions Resources

Websites

Research Databases