Students investigate the importance of failure to the process of innovation by investigating several items that were invented by accident. They share one "failure to success" story by creating a 3-panel comic strip poster, and then write an essay in which they connect the trait of perseverance to success.

Concepts

innovation, perseverance, thomas edison

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Additional Tags

accidental inventions, grit, national geographic society, invention, inventors and inventions

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional