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Inspired Science

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners explore the history of inventions and their difference from discoveries. They create timelines of inventions, demonstrating their connections to each other.
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The Piano: Isn't it Grand?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students design an information packet to educate people about the various elements of the Verbier Festival. They construct a skit that exhibits an understanding of the special role the piano played before recording devices were invented.
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Signs of Everyday Life

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine how Keith Haring used signs in his artwork and explore signs in everyday life. They list the signs they see during the day, and invent a new way to sign their name as a tag or picture-sign.
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Creative Story Telling

For Teachers K
Students listen to the beginnings of creative stories and then invent their own creative endings. Students use flannel boards to illustrate their stories.
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Create A Question

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore mathematical problem solving. Given a case problem, students write a rule to solve problems involving decimal multiplication and division. They invent problems, share them with the class, and solve other student's...
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Machines

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students complete a variety of activities and they explore machines and the way they work. They read about a time machine and then draw a picture of what they think the time machine looks like. They invent their own machine.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders read and discuss Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Then they invent a candy bar, name it and draw a picture of it. Finally, they write a short descriptive paragraph about it.
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Inventors Timelines

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a class timeline using the patent year for their selected inventor or invention. Using a piece of yarn, they physically create a timeline, and create and answer math word problems using the years from the timeline.
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Is Capitalism Good for the Poor? | How Incentives Affect Innovation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners focus on the role played by a nation's institutions in generating creativity, invention and innovation, and analyzes how innovation promotes the economic growth that raises standards of living and alleviates poverty.
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Wanted: Only the Facts!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students apply three steps to summarizing successfully (delete trivial and redundant material, replace superordinate terms with a list or action term, and invent a topic sentence.) Through guided practice, they follow these rules in...
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Spacd Day:Probing For Knowledge

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the uses and purpose of the Hubble telescope. They create a model of the telescope and conduct research about the history behind the invention of it. Students use the information in order to create a context for the...
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Arthur and the Invisibles

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this movie worksheet, learners create an illustration related to the film Arthur and the Invisibles. Students include diagrams of the Invisibles' amazing inventions.
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Money Toy Sheets

For Students 4th - 5th
In this math worksheet, students cut out the flashcards and sort them according to prices or other types of categories as invented.
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Do Some Research - Alessandro Volta

For Students 6th - 12th
In this science research worksheet, students research the Italian physicist who invented the chemical battery (Alessandro Volta). Students write a short description of the inventor, and draw a picture to illustrate some aspect of their...
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Helping Disabled Dogs

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students read a story called Carts Give Mobility to Disabled Dogs and answer vocabulary and comprehension questions about it. In this current events lesson plan, students respond to literature by answering questions, recalling details,...
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Mud Painting

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students invent mud mixtures to paint with. In this mud painting lesson, students experiment with different mixtures to develop the perfect mud paint. Students paint a picture.
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Build a Hydrophone

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students build a hydrophone based on this schematic.  In this inventive instructional activity students use a document to create a hydrophone.
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Robot Turning Lab

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students design a robot that can turn 90 degrees. In this robotics lesson, students explain the applications of their invention. They present their design in class.
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Words in the News Internet Companies Try To Stop Spam - 8 February 2006

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students complete vocabulary and word work before reading an online article. They complete worksheets and an online quiz before they participate in an activity in which they invent a simple product or service.
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Making Bouncing Balls

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders analyze the composition of different balls. In this science lesson, 2nd graders create their own balls using materials provided by teacher. They demonstrate what their invention can do.
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MADAME C. J. WALKER

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders recognize the achievements of Madame C. J. Walker and select one long term and one short term goal and describe the steps necessary to achieve those goals.
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Historic Earth Science Innovations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research the demands or limitations on Earth scientists. In groups, they design and build a model that would be useful to them in the lab or field. They share their model and their ideas behind it to the class and answer any...
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Graphing Regions: Lesson 2

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils identify and analyze geographical locations of inventors. They each identify where their inventor is from on a U.S. map, discuss geographic patterns, and create a t-chart and graph using the Graph Club 2.0 Software.
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Benjamin Franklin Word Search

For Students 5th - 8th
In this Benjamin Franklin word search, students identify descriptions of Mr. Franklin. They locate 24 words that are provided with the puzzle. An answer sheet is provided.

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