Click here for the unit for grades 6-9. Invention This page from the Transformations Project Web Site provides links to four different multidisciplinary lessons on inventions for middle school students. In this six week teaching unit, intermediate students learn about sound, examine simple musical instruments, and then are challenged to create their own unique musical instrument. National Inventors Hall of Fame Brief descriptions of inventors and their inventions that have been registered at the US Patent Office. As expected, most are American but other nationalities are represented as well.
Some descriptions have links to other related web sites on the same inventor.
The Toshiba contest is open to Canadian students as well. This Canadian site's objective is to increase the number of successful women inventors and entrepreneurs in Canada. They provide some free, on-line versions of their educational resources which include some biographical information on Canadian inventors and a handbook for conducting an invention workshop for girls. There is also an interactive quiz to test your knowledge. TrackStar TrackStar is an online interface which allows instructors to create lessons for students by sequencing existing instructional content in various web sites within a lesson.