4th Grade

Innovation Celebration

Goals

Students will meet these goals in their explorations:

• Develop the essential skills of logical thinking, creative problem solving, intellectual risk taking, and communication

• Make connections across disciplines

• Identify a need

• Create an original idea or object that satisfies a need or addresses a problem

• Investigate whether or not the innovation already exists

• Test the innovation, make modifications, and draw conclusions

• Keep records and document progress

• Relate scientific methods to real life, including ethics

• Identify criteria for an innovation and tell how the innovation meets them

• Generalize about innovators and the creative process