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- Kindergarten - 12th
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Students "exercise" creativity by inventing fun new games, write clear rules for their game and present their game rules and demonstrate the game for their classmates. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students recognize the work of Leonardo da Vinci. They invent a new machine for the 21st century and make a model of the invention. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students create a collage of four inventions and then write a riddle about one of the four. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students, in groups, invent a product to sell, create a commercial for it using a stick puppet they make. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students identify a problem that can be solved with a simple invention. They design an invention. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students choose an invention to research that affects their lives. They use the 5Ws method - who, what, where, when, and why - it was invented. Students brainstorm a list of possible inventions that could aid the elderly or discourage drug use. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 6th
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Students create Podcasts about individual inventions using GarageBand to record, edit, mix, and publish their work. The culminating Podcasts can then be downloaded to the school website via iTunes. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students invent a new machine for the 21st century and make a model of the invention in this cross-curricular lesson about Leonardo da Vinci, inventors, and inventions. The lesson includes resource links and biographical information. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students demonstrate skills for historical analysis. They use technology to research and present information about inventors and their inventions. Students relate this information to their importance in history. They analyze what inventor's inventions have changed the lives of people. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 4th
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Students listen to a biography of Thomas Edison which includes the the facts that he was unable to be successful in elementary school and that he was partially deaf. They brainstorm the effects of those two disabilities could have had on Edison and then using the web, construct a list of the most important inventions credited to him. Full Review »
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