6 Q’s About the News
Read the article and answer the news questions below.
In “Hoverboard? Still in the Future,” Conor Dougherty writes about a California start-up that may have figured out how to make a hovering skateboard.
WHAT have a generation of engineers and movie fans been waiting for for three decades, and WHERE did this thing first appear?
WHO are trying to create hoverboards?
WHY has it been extremely difficult for inventors to replicate the screenwriter Bob Gale’s original idea for how the hoverboard would float?
WHAT did the physics professor Alain Sacuto use to levitate a skateboard?
HOW did the website Funny or Die recently trick people interested in this invention?
WHO is Rich DeVaul and WHAT did he and Dan Piponi create?
WHAT was Greg Henderson’s inspiration for making a company dedicated to figuring out how to hover things?
WHAT are some of the hovering contraptions currently on Kickstarter?
For Higher-Order Thinking
After reading the article, can you explain in your own words the physics, engineering and technology questions that must be asked and answered to create a working hoverboard? WHAT would they be?
WHAT device to make life easier or more fun do you most wish would be invented? WHY?