Buck Institute
Pbl Works: Creativity & Innovation Rubric (Ccss Aligned)
[Free Registration/Login Required] The first part of this rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 3-5 in using an effective process for innovation in various phases of a project, and it can be used to assess their performance....
Buck Institute
Pbl Works: Creativity & Innovation Rubric
[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric helps teachers guide students in grades K-2 in using creativity and innovation in a project, and can be used to assess their performance. This rubric is aligned with CCSS, but also can be...
DOGO Media
Dogo News: Video of the Week: Futuristic Elevated Bus Begins Test Runs in China
Check out this prototype of a bus that rolls over regular road traffic. Comprehension questions and vocabulary terms are included with a video. [1:02]
Smithsonian Institution
Lemelson Center: Invention at Play
In this mind challenging and creative site, you will learn how play and inventiveness are related. Hear inventors' stories, set your own inventive thinking in motion, and see video commentaries about the nature of play and whether or not...
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Cross Innovation Hub Hamburg: Cross Innovation Network
This platform displays cross-sectoral and cross-disciplinary innovation activities from all over Europe. Example projects include the use of algae to remove pollutants from water, harnessing thermal energy from roofs, and reusing...
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Innovation News Network
Innovation News Network is a source for the latest news dedicated to research, emerging science, policy and innovation topics across the globe.
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Branksome Hall Asia: Design and Inquiry: Stakeholders in Invention and Innovation
Collaborative generation of knowledge and high efficiency information flow allow for diversity, increased resilience, reliability and stability within an organization. Through participatory research, stakeholders can make full use of the...
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Branksome Hall Asia: Design and Inquiry: Invention and Innovation
A comprehensive resource on invention, innovation, and creativity. Explores the field of product design, marketing, innovation strategies, collaboration of stakeholders, product life cycle, and Rogers' elements of innovation. Includes...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Entrepreneurship: Creativity, Innovation, and Invention: How They Differ
This resources teaches students how to distinguish between creativity, innovation, and invention, and to explain the difference between pioneering and incremental innovation, and which processes are best suited to each.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Rise of Human Computer Cooperation
Brute computing force alone can't solve the world's problems. Data mining innovator Shyam Sankar explains why solving big problems is not a question of finding the right algorithm, but rather the right symbiotic relationship between...
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences: Pot Biz
Learn how to be a successful innovator as you try to turn an idea for a decomposing plant pot into a profitable business. It won't be easy; being an innovator never is. In this interactive game, the decisions you make could lead to fame...
DOGO Media
Dogo News: Week of 2 10 14: Dudley the Duck Gets a (3 D Printed) Prosthetic Leg
Article reports on the case of Dudley the Duck, who is learning to walk again with the help of a 3D printed prosthetic leg. Includes video.
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Dbs Interactive: Build Your Snowman!
Build a snowman or snowwoman using this interactive. Choose from collections of heads, bodies, clothing, accessories, and scenery. The editing tools allow you to layer objects, rotate them, undo an action, or delete things. Features...
CNN
Cnn en Espanol: Week of 10 28 13: El Proximo Steve Jobs Es, Una Nina Mexicana
In Spanish. Article profiles a 12-year-old Mexican girl that Wired magazine has dubbed the next Steve Jobs.
NBC
Science of Innovation: Self Driving Cars
This tutorial includes a video filmed at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, computer scientist Sebastian Thrun and his team of software engineers are creating a fleet of self-driving cars. His innovative approach to...
Smithsonian Institution
Lemelson Center: Invention Process
Through a number of articles, stories and research we learn about the invention process, including communicating your ideas, staying resilient when things go wrong.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Power of Creative Constraints
Brandon Rodriguez explains how creative constraints actually help drive discovery and innovation.
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Boeing Innovations
During this activity, students will reveal hints to new Boeing innovations. Students will see new aircraft, spacecraft, and other newly developed ideas.
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Business Insider: 16 Everyday Objects That Are Perfectly Designed
An industrial designer shares his examples of products that are designed so well that it would be pointless to tinker any further with them. Teachers should be aware that one product is a handgun. Many of the others are examples of...
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Popular Mechanics: 7 Everyday Objects With Brilliant and Simple Designs
The best designs are usually the simplest, but just because they're simple doesn't mean they're easy to come up with. Here are seven examples of objects that aren't particularly sophisticated but have a subtle, genius simplicity to their...
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Medium: 35 Quotes on Design That Will Fuel Up Your Creativity
A collection of quotes on design and creativity that can inspire students and ignite discussions about what design is and how creativity goes into the design of everyday objects.
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Mental Floss: 11 Museums Devoted to Everyday Objects
These 11 museums are dedicated to items you use but probably never think about. Things like toilets, pencils, locks, and scissors. The variety of designs and the creativity that went into them are truly impressive.
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Beanz: Imagine: Build a Car
One thing programmers do all day is imagine. When someone asks them to solve a problem with code, they start thinking and dreaming.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Citizen Science
Learn about citizen science: the participation of the general public in scientific research.