Inventions and Inventing for Gifted Students
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Applying creative thinking skills and a knowledge of a field of study to create exciting inventions is at the heart of the inventing process. This guide offers a practical introduction to the inventing process: getting students interesting in inventing, teaching the inventing process, patenting new product ideas, participating in inventions conventions and competitions, and an extensive listing of print and Web-based resources.
This is one of the books in Prufrock Press' popular Practical Strategies Series in Gifted Education. This series offers a unique collection of tightly focused books that provide a concise, practical introduction to important topics concerning the education of gifted children. The guides offer a perfect beginner's introduction to key information about gifted and talented education.
Kristen Stephens
Kristen R. Stephens, Ph.D., is an associate professor of the practice in the program in education at Duke University.
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Series Preface
The Practical Strategies Series in Gifted Education offers teachers, counselors, administrators, parents, and other interested parties up-to-date instructional techniques and information on a variety of issues pertinent to the field of gifted education. Each guide addresses a focused topic and is written by scholars with authority on the issue. Several guides have been published. Among the titles are:
Acceleration Strategies for Teaching Gifted Learners
Curriculum Compacting: An Easy Start to Differentiating for High-Potential Students
Enrichment Opportunities for Gifted Learners
Independent Study for Gifted Learners
Motivating Gifted Students
Questioning Strategies for Teaching the Gifted
Social & Emotional Teaching Strategies
Using Media & Technology With Gifted Learners
For a current listing of available guides within the series, please contact Prufrock Press at (800) 998-2208 or visit http://www.prufrock.com.
Introduction
Invention is a source of hope that life will be better tomorrow compared to today; invention is the key to solving many of the problems we face.
—M. Hertz (1999, p. 101)
During my first year as a teacher of gifted students, I met a young inventor named Jonathan. He arrived in my classroom and proudly announced that he had a great idea for an independent project. He explained to me that, as far back as he could remember, he had watched his father suffer from severe backaches and was concerned about his dad every week when it was time to mow the family’s lawn. Jonathan was currently a fourth grader, and as he shared his worries about his father, he claimed that, as a kindergarten student, he had vowed to do something to help his dad.
With this promise to his father in mind, Jonathan decided to address his dad’s problem through an invention. He announced that he had plans to design a pair of shoes that would incorporate tiny mowers underneath the soles, enabling his father to wear them and simply walk across the family’s grass as the tiny lawn mower shoes trimmed the grass. Jonathan began working in my classroom on sophisticated blueprints for his invention. In a short time, he had acquired a collection of used shoes from the teachers in our elementary school. He was completely absorbed in his project as he worked on attaching a tiny lawn mower engine underneath the soles of the wing-tip shoes he had managed to elevate with pieces of lumber.
Jonathan’s friends were delighted when he presented his final product, Lawn Mower Shoes,
and began working on an advertising campaign to convince his neighbors and friends to invest in his new product. While Jonathan was working on his advertisements, the young women in Jonathan’s fourth-grade class quickly pointed out that his wing-tip prototype was somewhat sexist. As a result, Jonathan proceeded to design the feminine version of the Lawn Mower Shoes.
Within a week, he created a women’s open-toed, high-heeled sandal that was also equipped with a built-in mower. Jonathan was ready to convince both men and women in his community that Lawn Mower Shoes
were the answer to every suburban