Empower students with a three-part lesson in which they will identify real challenges in their communities and prototype innovative solutions.
GUIDING QUESTION
Where are innovations? How can we identify and solve problems in our school and community to help someone in need or make a space/place more accessible for all?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Students will be able to:
• draw conclusions about how innovations can often be designed to solve practical
problems.
• explain how innovations/technology at their school have been designed to solve
problems.
• identify problems in their own community.
• design an innovation to solve a problem that impacts those in their community.
OVERVIEW
Innovations can make a real difference in people’s lives, especially in times of need. In this
lesson, students will identify innovations at their school that were created to help people or
solve specific problems. Then, they will identify problems facing their community and create a prototype of an innovation that could be designed to “make it better.”
Grades 6 – 8