Who Gets to Invent and How Do Inventors Change Our Lives
Jeanne Kimberley Chandler
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“There is one idea stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.”
Victor Hugo 14
Students will come to their own understanding of inventors and inventions as they begin to learn throughout the unit. Giving the children the opportunity to take the information they learn and use it to create their own inventions is the key to the success of this unit. Children are naturally curious individuals. Although some students may need extra motivation to learn, this unit provides children with an opportunity to explore new ideas. When given the opportunities to explore the world around them, students have endless queries into their world. As they become more comfortable discussing and finding answers to their questions, students need avenues to see their solutions come real. The ability to make, build, create those solutions become real comes through inventing.
As students research inventors and begin to learn about the obstacles inventors have faced, students will recognize that inventors have overcome the challenges in their life. Young children have the desire to find answers to problems around them and to improve upon objects already in existence. This unit allows students ways to arrive at those answers. Ending this unit with a final project is very important and allows students to express their independent thinking. Students need the opportunity to create their own innovation. Displaying and sharing their invention will give their work further importance- whether in the classroom or in the school building.
Today’s students are tomorrow’s inventors. The ability to create in school gives children the chance to see the importance of new ideas and especially their ideas. Any student may be the person who creates the cure for AIDS or the newest toy rage. The unit may also give students a lifelong hobby that gives them pleasure throughout their life. Inventors changed and created the world we live in today and students will continue to invent the world of tomorrow.
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