Inventions, Inventors, & You: Grades 3-7

Inventions, Inventors and You is a comprehensive unit that not only will acquaint students with significant inventions and inventors, but also will give them techniques for being more creative. Inventions, Inventors and You takes invention out of the history books and brings it to life.This combination of research and creativity training allows students to explore how our lives have been affected by inventions while they build their own creative skills. Inventions, Inventors and You offers something for every teaching and learning style. The teacher's section gives outlines for directed lessons, warm up ideas and guidelines for learning centers and bulletin boards, as well as pretest and invention reference lists. The student section includes reproducible worksheets that explore both inventions, inventors, the inventive process, and 27 project ideas. These activities take your class through the entire inventive process with many opportunities for side trips. Use for a unit on creative