Various activities around the house seem boring to children. Students choose an activity in the home that a new invention would make easier or more exciting. Teachers provide a list of these activities or encourage different ideas in the classroom. Some invention ideas might include devices or procedures that update chores such as vacuuming or washing dishes or morning routine activities such as brushing your teeth. Students give the invention a name, describe the invention and draw a picture of the idea. In oral presentations, students debut their inventions to the class.
Teachers ask students to create a new sport for the class to play. Instructors give students certain parameters for balls to use, safety measures, equipment and field or gym space. Students can do this project individually or in groups. Once the students develop the sport, they must demonstrate it to the class and provide a paragraph or two on how to play the game. Students then vote on a game to play or play all of the games during a field day.
From school buses to mom's mini-van, children travel around a lot, and they may have plenty of ideas about how humans will travel in the future. Students adapt a vehicle of the future off of a current mode of transportation or develop an entirely original craft. Teachers ask students to think about how people will move in the future or how far they will travel, then let them develop new modes of transportation. Students draw models of their futuristic vehicles, name the vehicle and list the parts to the vehicle and how they function. Students receive extra points for making the vehicle into a green or eco-friendly vehicle.
School improvement directly relates to students who spend most of their days in a classroom on campus. Instructors invite students to look around the school and think about improvements they would make to the hallways, cafeteria, recess area, gym, playground, bathrooms or other area of the school. Perhaps students have a new idea for a locker system or soda machine. Students develop the idea, then write a paragraph about the invention and how it will help the school. Optionally, students can present their imaginary inventions to the principal or other members of the faculty with drawings or models.