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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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Lesson Plan May 30 2017

Lesson plan: Invent an app that helps your community

Lesson Plan August 08 2017

Lesson plan: How renewable energy inventions protect the environment

Lesson Plan June 25 2019

Why this athlete invented a sports concussion sensor

Lesson Plan August 30 2019

Lesson plan: How student inventors can help solve the Earth's plastic problem

Lesson Plan September 22 2019

Lesson plan: How animals help us design new inventions to solve environmental problems

Lesson Plan September 25 2019

Lesson plan: How mimicking nature inspires new inventions

Lesson Plan April 20 2020

Lesson plan: How inventions like personal protective equipment "PPE" save lives during COVID

Lesson Plan July 01 2020

Lesson plan: Inventing beyond recycling

Lesson Plan May 13 2021

Lesson plan: Inventing beetle bike helmets

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