This Little Inventors resource pack explains what inventing is and gives you all you need to deliver a workshop about all kinds of ingenious inventions.

By promoting creative thinking and problem-solving skills, this Little Inventors resource offers many opportunities to link to several curriculum areas in primary schools, including art, D&T, science and literacy.

Learning objectives

• Understand that inventions are all around us
• Understand that invention is a way to create solutions to problems or challenges
• Identify potential problems/areas where an invention could be useful
• Make hypotheses and evaluate invention ideas

Learning outcomes

• Generate ideas for inventions
• Articulate and communicate ideas in drawing, writing and speech for an audience
• Plan and evaluate writing
• Start using scientific methodology through making predictions, planning and evaluating

Little Inventors lesson structure

• Get started (5-10 mins)
• Character profiler (10-20 mins)
• Mind mapping (10-20 mins)
• What’s your invention? (20-40 mins)
• Round-up (5-15 mins)

Little Inventors is a creative education organisation that inspires imagination by taking children’s amazing ideas seriously. Find out more at littleinventors.org.

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