Lesson Plan

Inventors & Inventions Lesson Plan: Littles Edition

Spot the problems behind everyday inventions and build your own from recycled things.

This is the Littles Edition of Inventors & Inventions: one ready-to-teach week written just for grades K-3. Every day follows the same rhythm: Reading on Monday, Writing and Words on Tuesday, Science and Math on Wednesday, a Hands-on Project on Thursday, and Show and Tell on Friday.

The big question: What makes someone an inventor, and could I be one too?

The Week

• Mon: What Is an Invention? (Reading) • Tue: Mattie's Paper Bags (Writing & Words) • Wed: The Paper Bag Test (Science & Math) • Thu: Build Like an Inventor (Hands-on Project) • Fri: Inventor's Fair (Show & Tell)

Teaching more than one level? The all-levels edition of Inventors & Inventions has Littles (K-3), Middles (4-6) and Bigs (7-8) in one file, so siblings or a mixed classroom can study the same topic together.

Perfect for homeschool families, grade K-3 classrooms, co-ops and substitute plans.

What's inside

• 5 ready-to-teach days for Littles (grades K-3), about 30 to 45 minutes a day
• Lab sheet: The Paper Bag Test
• Sequence cards (How Inventors Work) and a cut-and-sort page (Made by People or Found in Nature?)
• Writing page: I Wish Someone Would Invent...
• Hands-on project: My Recycled Invention
• Word search, maze, scramble and secret code puzzles
• 8 fact cards, 9 vocabulary cards and a book list of 4 titles
• A certificate and an answer key for the grown-up

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