Now and Ben

How did Ben Franklin make newspapers DIFFERENT?

• He added photographs.

• He wrote them by hand.

• He added political cartoons.

• He started printing them on paper.

How are people’s ideas about electricity DIFFERENT now than in Ben Franklin’s time?

• People now know that there is no electricity in lightning.

• People now know that lightening is not dangerous.

• People now use kites to gather electricity from storm clouds.

• People now understand electricity and know how to use it.

How did lightening rods change communities?

• They made electric lights possible.

• They made homes and buildings safer.

• They made it safe to fly kites in storms.

• They kept streets cleaner by attracting metal.

Which of Franklin’s inventions was similar to today’s Grabber?

• The Long Arm

• The lightening rod

• The glass armonica

• The political cartoon

How are Ben’s flippers DIFFERENT from today’s flippers?

• The did not float.

• They were made of wax.

• They were made of wood.

• They were not used in water.

How are today’s rocking chairs DIFFERENT from Ben Franklin’s rocking chairs?

• Today’s rocking chairs have fans on top.

• Today’s rocking chairs do not churn butter.

• Today’s rocking chairs are used as stepladders.

• Today’s rocking chairs do not move back and forth.

How are the writing chair and the library chair ALIKE?

• Both have desks built into them.

• Both are used to reach high places.

• Both combine two things into one.

• Both are ideas that were never really used.

Which words from the article give the BEST clue about what a glass armonica is.

• “Glass armonicas are very rare”

• “A row of spinning glass bowls”

• “More likely to find one in a museum”

• “Mozart and Beethoven were so moved by the sounds.>

Read the sentence below from the article.

Now....every automobile has an odometer to measure the distance it travels.

Which words give the BEST clue about what an odometer is?

• Now.....every

• automobile has

• an odometer to

• measure the distance it travels