Our economic history and sociologic history can both be examined through the impact of inventions from the industrial age to now. All of civilization can be studied through invention. Science fiction stories even predict the impact of man' s inventiveness on the future. Invention can be a tremendous organizing theme for a unit, a course, or a year long school wide theme. The study of invention can help our students connect the past to the present and to the future.
Inventors are simply people, male and female, young and old, who solve problems.
Every time someone comes with a new solution to a problem, he or she is an inventor. Some solutions are simple. Some are complex. Inventors like to tinker with their ideas. Inventors are persistent.