Inventing, Inventions, and Inventors: A Teaching Resource Book

Flack's exciting, mind-stretching activities illuminate a rich, interdisciplinary field of study. Investigating inventions of the past and the present, funny inventions, and inventions we may see in the future provides a natural springboard to creative thinking. Recommended books, films, organizations, and other learning resources are noted throughout the text. Grades 7-9 (adaptable for many grades).

Flack's exciting, mind-stretching activities illuminate a rich, interdisciplinary field of study. Investigating inventions of the past and the present, funny inventions, and inventions we may see in the future provides a natural springboard to creative thinking. Recommended books, films, organizations, and other learning resources are noted throughout the text. Grades 7-9 (adaptable for many grades).

JERRY D. FLACK is Professor of Gifted Child Education and a President's Teaching Scholar at the School of Education, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. A former member of the Board of Directors of the National Association for Gifted Children and the Board of Governors for The Association for the Gifted (TAG) of the Council for Exceptional Children, he has written numerous books and professional articles about curriculum for gifted students