Printing press

Copyright Rebekah

The Invention of the Prining Press

The printing press was invented by a man named Johannes Gutenberg. The first book ever printing was the called the "Diamond Sutra" that was printed in China in 868 CE. The prining press was first made of wood but later on it got changed and was made into a metal. The printing press was developted from a technology of a screw type wine press. The printing press was invented in 1440. The printing press worked by having the ink spread around the surface and hand set of wooden blocks made a print of the paper. The printing press is also known as Guenberg printing press.
Johannes was a German gold smith. Gutenberg was born on 1394 and died on 1468. This invention had a great impact in the world. It allowed printing books to become way easier and quicker. After the printing press was invented the speed of printing books was 10 times the speed before.

Source:
http://inventors.about.com/od/gstartinventors/a/Gutenberg.htm

Inventions and Inventors

Today in class, we started our new unit. It is called Inventions and Inventors. In class we watched 2 different clips on inventors. We watched one on Benjamin Franklin and the other on Leonardo Da Vinci. We discussed the different qualities of an inventor. We chose a lot of different characteristics. We chose things like being a risk-taker, intelligent, creative, curious, smart and multi-talented. Then later we took a quiz in our planners. It was interesting to see the different ways people are better at learning things then others in different parts. There were things like Verbal/Linguistic, Mathematical/ Logical, Visual/Spatial, Musical/Rhythmic, Physical kinesthetic, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal and Naturalistic.
Later on we discussed each of our results, then Namuun and Jill drew on the poster. They drew a car, light bulb, cellphones and etc...
For the areas of interaction we chose Human Ingenutiy and for the IB learner profile we chose risk-taker.