So You Want to Be an Inventor

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So You Want to Be an Inventor!

• Richmond Grade Three
• November, 2003

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What Is an Invention?

• Something made up
• Something that never existed until the inventor
  thought it up
• Most inventions are practical
• Something that simplifies a task or does useful
  work

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Why Invent Anything?

• Fame Fortune
• The Scientist Inventor
• The Practical-Inventor
• The Inventor Inventor
• The Builder-Inventor

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How to Go About Inventing

• Decide on a problem youd like to create a
  solution for

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Brainstorm

• Write down a long list of all possible (and
  impossible) solutions to the problem

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Changes Improvements

• If you regularly do something, you may be able to
  come up with an invention that speeds up or
  simplifies what you do

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Observation

• You notice all kinds of things happening around
  you that may give you an idea for an invention

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Inventing with Odds Ends

• Grows out of junk boxes (or drawers)

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Models Drawings

• Make a model
• Make a detailed drawing

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Some Ideas!

• A pen and pencil holder
• A storage box with a secret compartment
• A new kind of sailboat or land sailer
• A closet organizer
• A magazine rack-one that rotates or folds away

• Ways to get woken up in the morning
• Automatic page turner that lets you eat and read
  at the same time
• A moving scarecrow for the garden
• A new kind of holder for silverware or dishes or
  pots and pan

Use your imagination!!!
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What you have to do

• Decide upon an invention
• Brainstorm
• Make a drawing
• Make a model
• Write a description of your invention