Inventions and Inventors

Kids Inventor's Day - January 17

• Links
  • Totally Absurd Inventions

• Discovery Education 3M -- Young Scientist Challenge www.youngscientistchallenge.com
• Famous Inventions by Kids http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/112523/kid-inventions-cnbc
• Have Fun with History www.havefunwithhistory.com/movies/dreams.html
• Inventors and Inventions http://inventors.about.com
• PBS Kids Design Squad http://pbskids.org/designsquad/contest
• Toshiba ExploraVision Awards www.exploravision.org
• Women Inventors and Inventions http://inventors.about.com/od/womeninventors/a/women_inventors.htm
• Young Inventors Program www.aas=world.org/YIP/index.html

Invention game

Design Sqad (grade 3+) - PBS companion web site - interactive games, share ideas

Engineering: Design it(grade 3-8) - PBS -ideas and directions for several and students can add their own variations

Invent Now - National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation (grade 5+) - biographies, inventions, etc.

National Museum of Education - invention contests - plus National Gallery for America's Young Inventors

United States Patent and Trademark Office - Kids' pages - games, quizzes, trivia and timelines

Lesson Plans

• Quest for the perfect invention PDF - Library Sparks, January 2012
• Two Facts and a phony - plus create own micro invention game PDF Library Sparks, January 2012