Do you want to empower your students and get them engaging more deeply with a variety of subjects — from engineering to English? Look no further than invention education!

Invention education is a project-based learning approach to take students through the steps of the invention process — from meeting with community members to identifying a need to designing, testing, and sharing an invention!

PBS NewsHour Classroom's Invention Education Fellows are teachers from all different subject matters and grades who have joined together to share resources and experiences teaching invention or #InventEd in social media sphere. Interested in learning more? Email Luke Gerwe at lgerwe@newshour.org to learn more about invention ed and fun ways to take part in our invention community!

In December, the Invention Education Fellows met to look back at what they've learned this past year. The conversation spanned success stories of bringing invention history to STEAM classes, to lessons learned from trial and failure about how to help student inventors succeed.

You can watch the full session here, or keep reading to view selected clips.

Teachers Shawn Chesser and Seema Naik on incorporating history in STEAM

Maryland teacher Terri Dove on teaching Henrietta Lacks and ethics in bioengineering

Tennessee teacher Tracy Cooper on energizing students with invention

South Carolina teacher Kristin Bullington on empowering students with invention in the wake of a school shooting

Bullington on letting students lead with invention

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