Milli’s Top Five: The World’s Biggest Flopped Inventions

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SMART Prep | Quick Question 213660

Room 6 planted lettuce, beans, and carrots in the school garden. At first, the plants were tiny. Each week, the class measured the growth and wrote notes in a chart. By the end of the month, the garden looked lively and green. Miss Patel said the children had worked carefully and patiently. She also said the garden would need regular watering if the plants were to stay healthy.

What does the word 'regular' mean in the passage?

  

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Vocabulary

Click on the words in the article. See if you can find them all.
  • invention A new idea or thing created to solve a problem. The Segway was a new invention for transportation.
  • flop Something that fails or doesn't succeed as expected. The new Coke was a flop because people wanted the original.
  • prototype An early model of something that is being tested. The Martin Jetpack's prototype was never sold to customers.
  • Thinking Question

    What do you think makes an invention successful or a flop?

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