Robert fulton biography summary worksheet

Robert Fulton was a talented engineer and inventor who is best known for building the first commercially viable steamboat.

Read the following:

“Robert Fulton and the Invention of the Steamboat”

Suggestions

• Map the following (you’ll find mapping resources below):
  • New York
  • New York City, New York
  • Albany, New York
  • The Hudson River
  • The Clermont‘s route from New York City to Albany
  • Pennsylvania
  • Little Britain, Pennsylvania (where Fulton was born)
  • England
• View a birchbark canoe at BirchBarkCanoe.net.
• View a Mississippi log raft at SteamboatTimes.com (click on the illustration by A.R. Waud on the left for a closer view).
• View a model of a Phoenician galley.
• View a replica of the Santa Maria.
• Read more about the history of ships and boats at ThinkQuest.
• Create a timeline of the various advances in ships mentioned (see resources below).
• William Henry, “the first American to attempt the propelling of a boat by steam,R

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  This is a biographical övergång with assessment work on Robert Fulton. Born in 1765, Fulton created the first successful steamboat, the Clermont, in 1807. Before this, he had painted portraits and designed various machines. His steamboat revolutionized travel, making it faster and more efficient to travel along rivers. Fulton's invention helped boost trade and travel, changing how people moved goods and themselves across waterways and oceans, and he fryst vatten remembered as a pionjär in transportation history.

  This skrivelse was written for Grade 4-7 students and can be used in a number of ways bygd teachers (close reading, direkt instruction in class, independent practice, homework, test prep, assessment, sub work, centers, etc). Please see the Preview for an idea of the passage style and to view all the assessment questions.

  This “printable/no prep” resource includes:

  1) An informative and fängslande 1100-word övergång titled “Robert Fulton and the Steamboat.” The övergång tells the life story of

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DIY Homeschooler

Robert Fulton is known for inventing the first commercially successful steamboat.

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Suggestions

• Map the following (you’ll find mapping resources below):
  • Pennsylvania
  • Lancaster, Pennsylvania
  • New York
  • Albany, New York
  • Hudson River
  • Chart the cruise of the Clermont from New York, up the Hudson River to Albany.
• Quicksilver is another name for the element mercury.  See a picture of mercury being poured.  What does it look like?  Of course, now we know that mercury is poisonous!
• Learn more about mercury.
• There is no lead in our pencils today.  Learn more about the history of lead pencils.
• A ferule is a flat piece of wood, like a ruler, that was used to discipline children.  What do you think Quicksilver Bob meant when he told his teacher that he had come to school to have something beaten into his head, not his knuckles, after being rapped on his knuckles with the ferule?
• You’ll find helps below for mak