Lemelson Center: Spark!lab: Inventor Profiles: Joseph B. Friedman

Here is a packet of lessons which are designed to help you to foster your pupils' creativity. The lessons are designed to develop their fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration on ideas. The are built around field trips to a...

Charlotte Cramer Sachs held the patents on many inventions. She invented quick baking products such as Joy muffin mixes, as well as accessories for dogs and musical games. One invention was a precursor to the retractable dog leash. A...

Learn about the advantages of hydroponic gardening and how to conduct your own hydroponic experiment at home.

Students can easily create a musical whirligig to study sound production. These instruments are constructed out of everyday materials and allows students to use their imagination to make music.

In this mind challenging and creative site, you will learn how play and inventiveness are related. Hear inventors' stories, set your own inventive thinking in motion, and see video commentaries about the nature of play and whether or not...

Polymers are all around us. Learn how to make your own, then answer scientific questions about your experiment.

Learn how to build your very own speaker with items usually found around the house. Follow step-by-step instructions and discover how to use your speaker to listen to the radio.

Learn about acids and bases during this penny-polishing experiment. Students will hypothesize what substances will polish pennies and then test their hypothesis.

A wind turbine is a machine that captures the force of the wind to produce electricity. Learn how to make a wind turbine as a student or as a teacher. An experiment can be downloaded.

Students discuss important historic inventors and read their biographical information.  In this world history instructional activity, students describe Alexander Bell, Thomas Edison, and Guglielmo Marconi using vocabulary terms used...