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Invention Education Collection

Invention education challenges students to identify and solve problems in their own communities and beyond! Lessons are available for STEM and non-STEM subjects to help students become civic-minded problem solvers.

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What is invention education? Explainer and lesson plans where students are the inventors!
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Daily News Lesson July 26 2024

Inventors, patent examiners, educators: The many careers at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Learn more about her journey to the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Daily News Lesson August 09 2024

Building a robot: The dedication and drive of one world championship robotics team

Learn about the 2024 VEX Robotics World Championship
Daily News Lesson September 09 2024

Deaths linked to football raise concerns about sport’s risks for young players

Learn how parents, experts and educators are working to make football a safer sport
Daily News Lesson November 20 2024

Ghana becomes dumping ground for the world’s unwanted used clothes

Learn what happens to many garments donated to thrift stores
Daily News Lesson December 17 2024

Indiana high school students offer up ideas to combat climate change

Hear about high school students taking on climate change and discuss what your class can do
Lesson Plan February 01 2017

Lesson plan: Invent your own device to battle invasive species

Stunning fish who were once kept as pets are destroying Florida’s coral reef ecosystem. In this PBS NewsHour lesson plan, students will learn how scientists are using a new invention, a lionfish zapping robot, to combat this harmful invasive species. They will then create their own invention to ward off invasive species in their community or region.
Lesson Plan May 30 2017

Lesson plan: Invent an app that helps your community

Design an app that helps your community, modeled after young entrepreneurs in California's rural Salinas Valley
Lesson Plan August 08 2017

Lesson plan: How renewable energy inventions protect the environment

Explore inventions that harness the power of water to make electricity
Lesson Plan June 25 2019

Why this athlete invented a sports concussion sensor

Learn about a concussion sensor invention that helps athletes detect if they may have a concussion
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