inventing

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• - Internet research adventure helps 4th-8th graders discover inventors from the past and learn how inventions come to be.
  
• - Provides links to Smithsonian web resources.
  
• - Elementary school students introduce some of the greatest minds and machines in the modern era. Includes timeline.
  
• - A guide to finding and solving inventive problems, performing patent searches, and marketing ideas. Requires Flash plug-in.
  
• - Highlights everyday items such as blue jeans or the can opener and tells about people who created them.