Students research how Velcro and sticky notes were invented. For this research report, students use the Internet to learn about how to common inventions came to be. Students write a report about their findings.

Young scholars investigate the importance of failure to the process of innovation by investigating several items that were invented by accident. They share one "failure to success" story by creating a 3-panel comic strip poster, and then...

Inventing isn't just about coming up with a great idea; that's the easy part! There's also the matter of turning an idea into a product that sells enough to recoup the cost of putting it on the market. And there's the ever-present...