Inventors

This week's Activities and Fireworks

In classes this week

Workshop Activities

1. Craft – House of Cards

2. Key Points – Who Dunnit? - Identify the inventors of several everyday products

3. Collaborative – Inventor's Times – timeline of inventions

4. Writing – What Bugs You? - Brainstorming for inventing

5. Math/Logic – Inventing Numbers – History of numbers

6. Genius Principle – My Invention – Invention proposal

7. Big Activity – Experiment With M's – estimating, experimenting, graphing results

8. Movement - Play Frisbee

Disneyland Meetup - Wednesday

  • Types of bridges

  • What is an Imagineer?

  • What do Imagineers do?

  • How can I “Imagineer?”

Minecraft Class - Friday

  • Best invention ever mini-builds

  • Inventing laboratories

  • Egg-drop challenge

  • Build challenge: Rube Goldberg machine

Upcoming Activities

  • Call to Adventure – Livestreams Tuesday mornings at 6:45 AM on Celebration Education Families Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/CelebrationEdu/

  • Upcoming parent workshop in Santa Ana https://www.facebook.com/events/164309664153827/

  • Using real books -- not textbooks, flashcards and worksheets -- to learn to read 1/10

  • Weekly Teen Hang Out in Santa Ana 1/10 https://www.celebrationeducation.com/single-post/2018/01/06/Teen-Hang-Out

  • Monthly Community Game Night in Santa Ana 1/10 https://www.facebook.com/events/173316783416089/

  • Monthly Community Game Night in Yucaipa 1/12 https://www.facebook.com/events/139192233459156/

  • Field Trips https://www.celebrationeducation.com/field-trips

  • BODY WORLDS and IMAX at California Science Center 1/17

  • Space Walk – walking a scale model of the solar system in Fountain Valley 1/31

  • Colonial Farm Life at Colonial Chesterfield at Riley's Farm 1/31

Fireworks

Read through the fireworks and choose five that you think might interest your child. Allow him or her to select 1-3 of them.

  • Invent and design something that can help fill a need.

  • Imagine you were to invent a new musical instrument. What would it sound like? What type of music would it play?

  • Play some math games.

  • After ordering lunch at a fast food restaurant, have each family member estimate the total

  • bill. Whoever comes closest gets an extra order of fries (or a fruit cup!).

  • Choose an inventor to learn more about. Make a collage or other display to show the things that inventor studied, discovered, and invented.

  • Choose an invention. Make a time line to show the history of that invention.

  • Make a scrapbook of an inventor’s life.

  • You are an inventor about to receive an award for one of your great inventions. Write your acceptance speech.

  • Read biographies of inventors.

  • Visit the patent office Web site.