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. Inventors share their inventions. Since that time, Americans have invented the laser, the trampoline, the Frisbee, Life Savers, the Dixie cup, and Kleenex.