Inventions- Try Again

Inventions- Try Again

Written by Robin Bracken

Calhoun Academy of the Arts

Anderson, SC

Sing to: Try Again by Aaliyah

*Start as soon as music begins*

It may take a long time, long time

Inventions take hard work and commitment

Keep work’n, Keep work’n

Keep work’n, Keep work’n

Keep work’n, Keep work’n

Brainstorm

Make a plan

Change your plans

Talk about it

Try different things

Keep an open mind…

Be a problem solver

Discover, It all goes back to the late 1800’s

United States

Is changing from

Farm work

To factories

Industrial Revolution

Production of

Manufactured goods

Not so much

Trade and agriculture

But land and labor

and capital

and technology

the new ideas

and how to use

the equipment to do it

Chorus:

If at first you don’t succeed

Then dust yourself off and try again

Dust yourself off and try again, try again

If at first you don’t succeed

Dust yourself off and try again,

You can dust it off and try again, try again and again

Inventions helped

Industrial growth

The telegraph

Samuel Morse

Using Morse Code

To communicate

Then the telephone

Alexander Graham Bell

Communicate 1876

With the telephone

Than the telegraph

It’s easier and quicker

We’re on a move

It’s economic growth

Chorus:

If at first you don’t succeed

Then dust yourself off and try again

Dust yourself off and try again, try again

If at first you don’t succeed

Dust yourself off and try again,

You can dust it off and try again, try again and again

Bridge:

Thomas Edison is a famous inventor

Incandescent light bulb 1879

Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh?

Electricity! Lighting all the factories

Safer than the kerosene

Now we have a brighter day

Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

Chorus:

If at first you don’t succeed

Then dust yourself off and try again

Dust yourself off and try again, try again

If at first you don’t succeed

Dust yourself off and try again,

You can dust it off and try again, try again and again

Speak this part:

The Wright Brothers

Orville and Wilbur

Started the aircraft industry

With their experiments in manned flight

1^st motorized flight flew for 12 seconds

in Kitty Hawk, N.C. in 1903

You see Inventors and scientists contributed to the Industrial Revolution in the United States and helped the US to become a leading industrial power in the world.

Thank you for not giving up!

Chorus:

If at first you don’t succeed

Then dust yourself off and try again

Dust yourself off and try again, try again

If at first you don’t succeed

Dust yourself off and try again,

You can dust it off and try again, try again

If at first you don’t succeed

Then dust yourself off and try again

Dust yourself off and try again, try again

If at first you don’t succeed

Dust yourself off and try again,

You can dust it off and try again, try again and again

It may take a long time, long time

Inventions take hard work and commitment

Keep work’n, Keep work’n

Keep work’n, Keep work’n

Keep work’n, Keep work’n

Brainstorm

Make a plan

Change your plans

Talk about it

Try different things

Keep an open mind…

Be a problem solver

Discover, It all goes back to the late 1800’s

It may take a long time, long time

Inventions take hard work and commitment

Keep work’n, Keep work’n

Keep work’n, Keep work’n

Keep work’n, Keep work’n

Brainstorm

Make a plan

Change your plans

Talk about it

Try different things

Keep an open mind…

Be a problem solver

Discover, It all goes back to the late 1800’s

Chorus:

If at first you don’t succeed

Then dust yourself off and try again

Dust yourself off and try again, try again

If at first you don’t succeed

Dust yourself off and try again,

You can dust it off and try again, try again and again