Benjamin Franklin Web Quest

Watch this short video about Benjamin Franklin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SChcy3IGlg&feature=related

Go onto WorldBook Kids. Type in Benjamin Franklin. 

Read the article and answer these questions:

What year was Benjamin Franklin born in?

Where was he born?

How many  brothers and sisters did he have?

How old was he when he started working?

What was his first job? Did he like it?

He ran away to Philadelphia. What did he do there?

Ben Franklin invented many things. Here are some of Ben’s inventions:

http://www.time.com/time/2003/franklin/gatefold/6.html

Which are 2 of your  favorites?

The armonica was Ben Franklin’s favorite invention.

Click here to play it. http://www.fi.edu/franklin/musician/virtualarmonica.html

Franklin was also famous for many of his sayings. http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/printer/abc.html

Pick one of your favorites and explain what it means.