Let's Investigate: Famous Inventors and How They Changed the World

In this ongoing class, students will learn the background of famous inventors, and their inventions that changed the world. Discover the amazing lives of Tesla, Galileo, Jobs, Archimedes, Einstein and more!

Each class, students will learn about two different inventors, their personal life history, and what some of their biggest contributions to history were. The class will be taught through a lecture and slide presentation, with openings for discussion and thoughts on each inventor.  

We will discuss some of the more famous inventors such as; Thomas Edison and Benjamin Franklin, as well as lesser known inventors like Stephanie Kwolek. We will cover inventors from the 1800's all the way up to icons like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. 

Within this class, students will learn of some of the obstacles many of these inventors faced, and how they overcame and soared above the obstacles. It is easy sometimes to feel overwhelmed by struggles, but I hope through using these great minds as examples, students will be encouraged to push through and excel to their greatest potential as these icons have.  

Week of 10/03/25 - Amelia Earhart (Air Travel)
Week of 17/3/25 - Robert Falcon Scott (Polar Regions)
Week of 24/3/25 - Mary Anning (Paleontology)
Week of 31/3/25 - William Smith (Strata)
Week of 7/4/25 - Inge Lehmann (The Earth's Core)
Week of 14/4/25 - Carl Linnaeus (Organising Living Things)
Week of 21/4/25 - Mary Shelley (Robots)
Week of 28/4/25 - Nicholas Appert (Preserving Food)
Week of 5/5/25 - Albert Einstein
Week of 12/5/25 - Orville and Wilbur Wright (Aircraft)
Week of 19/5/25 - Timothy Berners-Lee (World Wide Web)
Week of 26/5/25 - Ada Lovelace (Computer Programming)
Week of 2/6/25 - Archimedes (Float or Sink)
Week of 9/6/25 - Lorenzo Langstroth (Beekeeping)
Week of 16/6/25 - Rosalind Franklin (DNA)
Week of 23/6/25 - Katherine Johnson (Rockets)
Week of 30/6/25 - George Washington Carver (Botany)
Week of 7/7/25 - Charles H. Turner (Invertebrates)
Week of 14/7/25 - Charles Kao (Fibre optics)
Week of 21/7/25 - Kusala Rajendran (Seismology)
Week of 28/7/25 - Mae C Jemison (Astronauts)
Week of 4/8/25 - Tu Youyou (Malaria)
Week of 11/8/25 - Galileo Galilei (The Telescope)
Week of 18/08/25 - Alexander Graham Bell (The Telephone)
Week of 25/08/25 - Marie Curie (Radium and Radioactivity)
Week of 01/09/25 - Ibn al-Haytham (Light)
Week of 08/09/25 - Alexander Fleming (Penicillin)

We look forward to being part of your learning journey!