Friday, February 4, 2011

Thomas Edison

We read about Thomas Edison and the process he went through in improving the lightbulb.  What are some of the ways that Thomas Edison was engaging in the scientific process.  How was he "Doing Science"?

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  1. thomas edison did science by useing data from other scientists , developing explanations and trying different materials to find the perfect one that would work so he was able to make his longlasting light bulb work.

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  3. Thomas edesion did sience by studing like reading tuns of books . He had new questions by asking him self stuf like how will people use light bulbes in their homes .Last but not lest he develped expinations.

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  4. Edison did science by investigating because he he had to figure out how the light bulb would work and how everyday people would use it.he also did science by asking questions and keeping records.
    he kept records by filling up hundreds of books of his experiments.Edison asked questions by finding new ways to make a light bulb last longer and be more efficient so people can use it in our everyday homes.

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  5. Thomas Edison did a lot of science. He asked questions,developed explanations,and kept records. He kept thousands of notes. He also made explanations,and asked questions like how people will get electricity in their homes. Thats how he did science!

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  7. Edison did science by writing thousands of notes to remember all he worked on.Later on,he starts reading other peoples work to identify the usage of their work.

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  8. Thomas Edison

    Question #1: What was Thomas Edison like as a child?
    Answer #1: Thomas Edison was very curious, he also asked a lot of quetions.

    Question #2: How did Thomas Edison "do science"?
    Answer #2: Thomas Edison did science by taking notes, developing explanations, and asking new questions. He took notes by writing his thoughts down on paper. He developed explanantions by trying all different materials. He asked new questions by thinking about his epierements.

    -H.C.

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  9. 1. Thomas Edison was very curious as a child. His teachers said he was the worst student in class. He was a big trouble maker, for he was full of curiousity.

    2. Edison did science by asking questions, sharing ideas, and planning. First he asked a question: How will I make a better source of light? He began to plan by taking notes on what other scientists had tried. When he figured out what he was going to build, he shared his ideas and asked for help. When he finally built the lightbulb he asked another question: How will people use the lightbulb in their homes?

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    Question #1: What was Thomas Edison like as a child?

    Answer: As a boy Thomas was the worst student in class, according to his teacher.

    Question #2: How did Thomas Edison do science?

    Answer:Thomas Edison did science by aksing questions,and answering questions.He also wrote a hundread of notes, of the expirements he did.To make the light-bulb light complete he sent some people around the world to help him find a fine filament.

    S.W

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  11. Wow, this is what I like to hear:

    He took notes by writing down his thoughts. He developed explanations by trying all kinds of different materials. He was reading about other people's work. He asked questions by asking how people were going to get electricity into their homes.

    I enjoy reading those comments that are very specific and demonstrate what you have learned about Edison. Great!

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    Question #1: What was Thomas Edison like as a kid?
    Answer #1: Thomas Edison was a troublemaker at school. he asked too many questions and got in trouble a lot.

    Question #2: How did Thomas Edison "do science"?
    Answer #2: Thomas Edison expieremented a ton of things. he created thousands of notes. He also studied other scientists work.

    -J.T.

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  13. what was thomas like as a boy?

    thomas was a question asker. He loved books too he always tryed myths that book had too.

    NY

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  14. 1. What was thomas edison like as a child? Thomas Edison was the worst kid in school the teachers said. Thomas Edison asked alot of questions and he was a trobblemaker.

    2.how did Thomas Edison do science? Thomas Edison did science by envestigting.He sent people around the world to look for fillaments. Edison wrote thousands of notes. He studied other scientists notes and envechions and then he took notes about them. Edison looked at other scientists notes so he could Investigate how to make the light bulb light up for a long time. M.J.

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  15. Edison could've been called crazy. Recording thousands of notes, Edison started his search for a working light bulb. Not only investegating, he read the work of other scientists. His plan had begun. Thomas Edison sent out people around the world for stuff that could be used as a filament. Testing many filaments he came to a conclusion. Bamboo served as a good filament. Still following the science process, Edison began a new search for how to install light in homes.
    Thomas Edison wasn't crazy, he was insane.

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  16. thomas asked questions like when he asked the world what is a good fillmint.

    NY

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  17. Thomas Edison was a great man. He was a man of science he made light ,Thomas Edison had all sorts of incredable inventions . He did not just help us he saved us people. He was smart in a why no one could beleive it,it was incredable the way he made electricity. Thomas Edison was a good man.

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  18. Edison did science by planning and looking for filament matirial.He also did claims and evidince because he knew why certain matirials did and didn't work.Now he had a new question"How will people use lightbulbs in houses that don't have electricity?"

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  19. What was Thomas Edison like as a child? Thomas Edison was very confusing and was a non-stop question machine. Though he loved to read books. Back then people didn't have good lights called gas lights. Gas lights produced poisonous fumes that was very bad for you. Thomas wondered if he could replace gas lights. And so he started to invent an light bulb. How did Thomas Edison "do science"? When Edison traveled the globe in search for a better filament instead of the thread the best filament he found was bamboo. He was doing science then because a filament goes to a light bulb and a light bulb relates to science. Thomas also kept track of thousands of notes. These notes held Edison's predictions. The notes relate to science because they would help Edison finish the light bulb. TK

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  20. 1. What was Thomas Edison like as a kid?
    Thomas Edison was always asking questions. He asked questions about how things worked, but he would never get a answer from his techer so heset up a lab in his family basment. Then he would do the experaments.

    2.How did Thomas Edison '' Do sience''
    Edison did science by...
    he wrote thousands of notes. It is inportant because it's like recording another wayhe did science ise did planning by saying I'm going to make the light bulb by doing this and this. The last thing he did was new questions the new question was people dont have electricaty how are they going to get electricaty? Those are all the ways Thomas Edison did science.

    I.D.S

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  21. 1.What was Thomas Edison like as a child?
    His teachers thought he was very nosey and asked to many questions.
    2.How did Thomas Edison "do science?"
    Edison did science by looking for different materials to be used as filaments for the lightbulb.He sent people around the world looking for different materials to be used as filaments.Edison had claims and evidence of materials that did and didn't work.
    E.A.C.

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  22. 1.What was Thomas Edison like as a kid?
    Thomas Edison was very smart but his teachers got mad because he asked to many qweshtions.
    2.How did Thomas Edison do science?
    Thomas Edison did science by asking lots of qweshtions.

    ZD

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  23. 1.What was Thomas Edison like as a child?
    Thomas Edison was the worst student in his class and asked a lot of questions, so his mom home schooled him. Then, he became a genious.

    2. How did Thomas Edison "do science"?
    Edison did science by developing explanations. He did that by finding out why the lightbulb didn't work. Edison also investigated around the world to see what he should have as a filament. To figure out the answer he needed to ask questions like why does the filament burn out? He also investigated by looking at other scientists claims.

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  24. Thomas Edison

    As a child Edison was full of curiosity,asked alot of questions, but his teachers thought he was the worst in class.


    IAB

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  25. Thomas Edison does science by, writing notes and observerving other scientests.


    M.A.B.

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  26. Thomas Edison had a lot of questions like how does water put out fire and how does a hen lay a egg.no one on earth wold tell him so he wanted to start finding out his questions he did it all in his basement. that is how he got to be a scientist


    B.A.L







    B.A.L

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  27. Thomas Edison did science by asking questions like how people will get the lightbulb in their houses.

    M.M.B

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  28. Question: What was Thomas Edison like as a child?

    Thomas Edison had lots of questions when he was a child. Because of all his questions he asked, the teachers thought he was the worst student in class. His questions never ended. Even though his questions were odd to the teachers, he ended up creating a great thing: the light bulb.



    Question: How did Thomas Edison "do science"?

    Thomas Edison did science by tracking is thoughts, and he always planned what he was going to do and look for informaition. He shared his ideas with the people and took notes on what other scientists had done. That's how Thomas Edison "did science".

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  29. Thomas Edison

    1. what was Thomas like a child?

    As a child, thomas was full of curiosty,he asced a lot of qestions but his teather though he was bad.

    2.How did thomasdo science?thomas did science by icsperimenting.

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  30. Thomas Edison
    doing scince
    back then when Thomas Edison was alive there was only gas lights.Gas lights were bad because they damage walls and curtains. There was also a danger of fires and poisonous fumes. So Thomas Edison wanted to invent something that was easy to turn on and of to replace gas lights. the thing he made was a light bulb. that is why we have light bulbs. Other scincetists had light bulbs that only lit for a few seconds and he made the light bulb light for as long as peopleneeded it.

    JBS

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  31. thomas edison
    as a child edison was full of ciriosity, asked alot of questions and, his teachers thoght he was the worst student in class.
    I did not get to finish learn more about tomas edison more later by mmk or mk

    mmk

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  32. THOMAS EDISON (1847-1913)

    Thomas Edison did sciense he invented the lightbulb. Thomas Edison thout it would be easy. Ones he tried many diffret ways but he did not do it .He searched for better filamentthen...
    he finnly did it! Now it is a big sensation!

    TJK

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  33. Thomas Edison

    What was Thomas Edison like as a child?

    As a child, Edison was full of curiosity asked a lot of questions but his teacher thought he was the worst student in class.

    How did Thomas Edison "do scince?"

    In the 1870s, people had to use gaslights to light thier homes. the gaslights burnt the walls and curtains there was danger of fires and poisonous fumes. Thomas thought "I wonder if there is a way to replace gaslights?"He wanted to invent an inexpensive and easy-to-use electric light to replece gaslights.

    That is how I think Thomas Edison did science!

    JGN

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  34. How does Thomas Edison do science?

    Thomas Edison did not do science right according to his teachers. They said he asked to many Questions. Thomas Edison loved to do scince Thomas Edison had a probim in his town they had gas lights that flickerd so he wanted to fix that problomso he biult a eleric light but it didn't work for very longso he keept doing that cycle over and over again and then finally he did it he invented a eleric light bulb.

    WFM

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  35. What was Thomas Edison like a child?

    As a child ,Edison was full of curiosity asked a lot of questions but his teacher

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  36. Edion was doing science by filling hundreds of note books.

    MHB

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  37. part2of thomas edison as a student
    as a student his teachers that he was confused in class.

    mk

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  38. Thomas Edison

    1.What is Edison like wen he was a kid.

    2.What did he do when he was a kid.

    JT

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  39. what was thomas edison like as a boy? thomas asked a lot of ?'s the teacher thought he was the worst person in the class thomas wanted answers!


    aeb

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  40. I think how Thomas Edison did sience was he was trying to edventne new things.


    maf

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  41. What was Thomas Edison like as a child?

    As a child ,Edison was full of curiosity askes a lot of questions but his teacher thought he was the worst student in the class.

    How Thomas Edison "do science"

    In the 1870s there were gas lights. There were no electric.

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  42. Thomas Edison

    What was Thomas Edison like as a child?
    As a child, Thomas Edison was full of curiosity, he asked a lot of questions but his teachers thought he was the worst student in class.

    How did Thomas Edison "do science"?
    Thomas Edison "did science" by thinking of an experiment to improve something or just to have fun.

    ICF

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  43. Thomas Edison

    1.What was Thomas Edison like has a child?

    As a child ,

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  44. how wrote what was thomas edison like as a child



    sandis

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