Unit 7Necessity Is the Mother

of Invention

Extension Activities

Alice ChiuAlice Chiu

Imagination is more important than knowledge, for imagination

embraces the world.

Albert Einstein

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• Activity One: Are you a creative person?

• Activity Two: How to be an inventor?

Are you a creative person?

• Answer the following questions to find out whether you are creative or not…

Do you learn to know Do you learn to know and understand and understand

yourself?yourself?

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Do you have courage Do you have courage and self-confidence and self-confidence and trust your own and trust your own

judgment?judgment?

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Do you keep open to Do you keep open to any kinds of ideas?any kinds of ideas?

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Do you ask new Do you ask new questions to yourself questions to yourself

every day?every day?

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Do you keep records Do you keep records of your ideas at all of your ideas at all

times?times?

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Do you take part in Do you take part in creative hobbies?creative hobbies?

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Do you keep up with Do you keep up with your field and also your field and also learn about things learn about things

outside your outside your specialty?specialty?

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Do you think of many Do you think of many ways for problem ways for problem solving and avoid solving and avoid rigid patterns of rigid patterns of

doing things?doing things?

Solve the nine dot problem

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Do you keep alert in Do you keep alert in your observation?your observation?

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Do you adopt Do you adopt a risk taking attitude?a risk taking attitude?

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Do you use Do you use trial-and-error methods trial-and-error methods

in your life and neverin your life and nevergive up easily?give up easily?

Success

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Actual Learning Curve

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Take “Creativity Test” online http://library.thinkquest.org/C0110299/interact/interact.php

On this web page, click THE CREATIVITY TEST

The aim of this test is to see how creative a person you

are.

• There are 40 questions in this test. In the end, after you summit the answers, you can get the result and know how creative you are.

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Reference: www.engin.umich.edu/~problemsolving/strategy/Creative.htm

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How to be an inventor?

Instruction• In this activity, you are asked to clarify

some important ideas about how to become an inventor.

• Try to finish the following tasks and then you can get a better idea.

– 1. Task about inventing steps

– 2. Task about brainstorming

– 3. Task about problem solving

– 4. Task about journal-keeping

1. 發明的步驟

A.manage it

E.design it

B.build it

C.try it

D.dream it

There are five steps when you invent.

Reorder those steps.

D.dream it

E.design it

A.manage it

B.build it

C.try it

2. 腦力激盪

Brainstorming

• Brainstorming is a process of thinking used by an individual or by a group of people to come up with many different ideas.

• The following page gives some rules, but pick up those numbers that are CORRECT.

Pick up numbers that are rules of brainstorming

• When you brainstorm, you SHOULD…

2. say anything

1. encourage all ideas

4. think quickly 5. feel worried

3. evaluate any ideas

7. produce as many ideas as possible

6. criticize others’ ideas

When you brainstorm, you SHOULD…

2. say anything

1. encourage all ideas

4. think quickly

3. evaluate any ideas

7. produce as many ideas as possible

5. feel worried 6. criticize others’ ideas

3.問題解決

About Problem-solving

• You need to develop the problem-solving ability so that when you invent something, you won’t give up easily when you are faced with difficult problems.

• Now, reorder the steps of problem-solving in the next page.

4.日誌記錄

More tips about invention

• Long before Alexander Graham Bell filed a patent application in 1875, Daniel Drawbaugh said that he had invented the telephone. But since he had no journal or record, the Supreme Court rejected his claims. From this story, what lesson have you learned?

You are right!!

• You should keep an Inventor’s Journal to prove that you are the first person that invents a new product.

Rules for Journal Keeping• Make notes about things you do and learn

while working on your invention.

• Record your ideas and how you got it.

• Write about problems you have and how you solve them.

• Write in ink and do not erase.

• Add drawings to make things clear.

• List all parts, sources, and costs of materials.

• Sign and date all records at the time they are made and have them witness.

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Reference: ub-counseling.buffalo.edu/probsolve.shtmlhttp://www.engin.umich.edu/~problemsolving/closed/Unstuck/unstuck.htm

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