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The Power of Innovation Labs® in K-12 Schools

Fostering a spirit of creativity and innovation is essential to all learners. This clearly applies to the classroom of the future. Innovation Labs®, pioneered by Inventionland®Education, are truly immersive learning spaces. These dynamic environments inspire innovation, empower students, and transform underutilized or outdated spaces into centers of educational excellence. Let’s delve deeper into why Innovation…

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Dreamer’s Life – I Still Believe

By George Davison Let me share my belief in enchantment, innovation, and wonder. Believe it or not, it’s all in us. Still there – just waiting to make its grand appearance. When I was young, it felt like the magic was all around us. There was a hidden realm of creativity and a world of…

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How to Build Crucial Soft Skills through Innovation Courseware

Inventionland®Education’s K12 innovation course is a ground-breaking program designed to help students develop the creativity and soft skills that future employers seek. The course gives students an authentic experience encouraging them to think outside the box and build their own inventions or product improvements. In this blog post, we will explore how Inventionland®Education’s K12 innovation…

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We’re Awarding Innovation Grants to Districts and Schools

Inventionland®Education is Awarding Innovation Grants. Here’s How to Apply. Inventionland®Education provides K-12 educators with an engaging STEM/STEAM-based curriculum that’s unlike anything you’ve seen before. Using our proprietary 9-step method, student groups work through the immersive process of bringing innovation to life in a real-world environment that inspires creativity, teamwork, and critical-thinking skills. Aligned to state…

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How Students Benefit from Taking Our Course for Multiple Years

As developers of education tools, we pride ourselves in empowering students to think independently, work creatively, and learn collaboratively through our STEM curriculum. The course we’ve designed is extremely flexible, putting the power into the hands of students as they develop, build, and advertise their own original product. However, although our course is adaptable for…

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Our Best Tips for Converting Classrooms into Creative Spaces

Teachers are always looking for new ways to inspire their students. We asked members of the Inventionland®Education team to give us their top three tweaks teachers can make in the classroom spark student creativity. Nathan Field, Executive Director Eliminate assigned seats. If two students who don’t get along have to sit next to each other,…

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STEAM Lesson Plan: Team SPEAR-IT

If you want a year of smooth sailing in the classroom, you’re gonna need some rules. Without them, your grand visions of collaboration can quickly go downhill. In this STEAM lesson plan, we not only introduce students to the world of polymers, but we also introduce them to the six essentials that are needed for…

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Innovation in the Classroom

To say classrooms have evolved over the past 30 years is an understatement. Thirty years ago, a teacher was considered innovative and thinking out of the box if she signed up for one of the televisions stored in the library, carefully rolled it on the cart down the hall, and brought in a VHS clip…

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The Next Day of Innovation

People may be born with creativity, but innovation is a craft which must be taught. Here at Inventionland, we believe anyone has the potential to be a great innovator, if given the proper tools to succeed. To that end, we’ve developed the Inventionland®Education Innovation Course, designed to unlock a student’s potential by engaging them in…

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