Inventions & InnovationsInventions and Innovations is an 18-week, semester long course for 7th and 8th graders. The focus of this course is invention and innovation technology. Students study tools and machines, power and energy, transportation, and communication. Students appy skills with individual creativity to create models and inventions.
Some of this is accomplished through the following activities:
Tool Safety
Technology foundations--Worksheet
Designing and building a catapult--Design Brief
Design and presentation of a Rube Goldberg cartoon
Computer design of a new tool
Creation of a class company and the production of a prototype primarily using recycled materials
Recycled Invention Design Brief and Recycled Invention Rubric
Studying space technology and building solid propellant rockets launched to a 500 foot altitude
Completion of 4 activities known as modules--
These are 7-day team activities that are part of the Technological Systems course. Modules completed in inventions and innovations are NOT repeated when taking the Technological Systems course.