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Activities & lesson plans on Inventing and Engineering are for gadget gurus. Your
inventive
students love to conceptualize,
develop, modify and build products. And here's your chance to inspire
them to win big for their innovative ideas.
Every season, we will provide you with new teachers guides and activity
sheets for your class. Your students can store their ideas in the
Idea Locker and enter them to
relevant bkfk competitions as well.
Winter 2009: Invent A Game
Challenge
Entries for online downloadable games
Download Curriculum
Teacher’s Guide
The Invent A Game Teacher’s Guide will help you guide
your students to think like a player and a game designer to come up with
innovative game designs & creations. The guide will help you teach
problem solving, logic, mechanical reasoning and critical thinking.
Email us
for additional teacher guides, lesson plans and activities listed below.
Summer 2008: Trash To Treasure Competition
Entries for inventions made from two or more discarded materials.
Teacher’s Guide:
The Trash to Treasure guide is set to tap your students'
interest in designing and building. We encourage you to use this guide
to help your students to investigate, experiment and solve challenging
problems.
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Winter 2008:
Sports Evolution Challenge
Entries for apparel, accessories, boards
(snow/water/skate), cycling, fitness/weights, water/aquatic,
field, and more
Teacher’s Guide: An introduction to the Sports Evolution Challenge and the available
BKFK
activities and tools to indulge your students
Activity 1:
Give students an opportunity to rethink the rules and concepts
of common sports and practice using inventive thinking
techniques to change them
Activity 2:
Learn about the process of inventing that can be applied to any
kind of inventing, innovation and creative problem-solving
Activity 3:
Make a sport of school activities and academics
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BKFK Inventive Thinking Toolkit
Developed in association with the Rothschild Patent Model Museum and
the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the 2008/2009 NEA
endorsed BKFK Inventive Thinking Toolkit guides kids though the
invention process. The Toolkit ’s main goal is to develop and nurture
the development of inventive thinking & problem solving skills. It
provides educators, museum youth leaders, libraries and out of school
programs, as well as families with inspiration and assistance to engage
and excite youth.
Click here for the
2008/2009 Inventive Thinking Teacher Guide
Find more innovative curriculum to reach students with different
types of intelligence:
| Inventing/Engineering | Design/Creativity
| Altruism |
Art/Self Expression |
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