This idea was inspired by this article, Why Every School Needs an Innovation Day. Then give students a chance to showcase their inventions for the community. Have a day in which students are able to create an invention with the help of a mentor. I liked this one where they invented a new kind of chalkduster. Here are the commercials her students came up with that also showcase their inventions. Here’s a lesson plan for this project by a language teacher in India. Then the groups have to create short advertisements to market these new inventions. The students can imagine all kinds of possibilities. For example, the pen might write secret messages that self destruct.

Tell the groups that each object does so much more than what we see. Begin this lesson by giving the groups an everyday object like a pen, water bottle, or paperclip. Idea #1 Advertising This Toolīreak students into pairs or small groups. Then revisit us and let us know how your students responded and reacted. This semester try one of the lesson ideas below to get your students feeling innovative-creating and exploring while they are learning. They have left wanting to create with their knowledge. They have left my class feeling passionate and excited about learning. These are the kind of lessons I live for, the ones in which I feel my students have left with more than knowledge. These are the lessons in which you leave with an extra jump in your step and it feels great to be a teacher. There are those lessons in which our learners come out feeling empowered, as if they have the ability and skills to make a positive impact in the world. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.” ESL Library’s teaching theme for January is Innovation.

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