Let's get right into making our own inventions.
Working with a partner follow these steps:
- Identify a problem
- Write down 5 problems that you encounter in everyday life. An example: this morning there were a couple large ice patches on the walkway between classes -it's dangerous.
- Conduct background research
- Answer your problem with how people have solved it in the past -example ice on the walkway. People have sprinkled salt on ice to make it go away, people have worn spikes on their shoes to provide grip.
- Suggest lots of solutions and explain why they should work
- One example: Place a heated blanket on the walkway's troubled spots at night to keep ice from forming. It should work because for ice to form the water must reach below freezing
- Collect data -present your invention and present to other students -Ask:
- Is it safe to do?
- If the change I propose affects others, can I get permission to do it?
- What materials do I need and can I get them?
- Do I have enough time to build and test my idea as well as to write it up?
- If it involves living things, will they be safe?
- Build your invention
- Test invention
- Share your invention
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