Welcome to the Young Inventors Workshop, where curiosity meets creativity! This hands-on class empowers intermediate students to explore the exciting world of invention through engaging activities, collaborative projects, and vocabulary enrichment. Students will develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills as they conceptualize, design, and create their own innovative solutions to everyday challenges. Our invention-focused approach makes learning vocabulary fun and meaningful as students apply new terms in real-world contexts.
Key Vocabulary
Invention Process Words
- Brainstorm: To think of many ideas quickly
- Design: A plan or drawing showing how something will work
- Prototype: An early model built to test an idea
- Experiment: A test to discover something or to see if an idea works
- Improve: To make something better
- Problem-solve: To find answers to difficult questions or situations
Technical Vocabulary
- Mechanism: Parts working together in a machine
- Circuit: A complete path that electricity can flow through
- Energy: The ability to do work or cause change
- Material: What something is made of
- Function: The job or purpose of something
- Structure: How parts are arranged or put together
Descriptive Vocabulary
- Innovative: New and creative
- Efficient: Working well without wasting time or resources
- Practical: Useful in real situations
- Durable: Able to last a long time
- Adjustable: Can be changed to work in different ways
- Versatile: Able to be used for many different purposes