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DRAPERInventor’s Notebook
Welcome to Spark!Lab,a hands-on activity centerwhere you’ll learn thatinvention is a process andthat everyone is inventive!These inventions belong to .
In Spark!Lab, you’ll learn about each step of the process,and all the fun and hard work that goes into inventing.To invent you have to:Build a prototype ormodel of your idea.Have a great idea foran invention.Test your invention.Investigate inventions andideas of the past.Keep improving your idea.Draw pictures and diagramsto figure out how yourinvention might work.Market your invention topeople who might buy it.
Inventors keep detailed records of their ideas and thesteps they take to create their inventions. Document yourinvention process here. Use this in Spark!Lab or whenyou’re inventing at home!Every invention startswith an idea. What’syours? What problemare you trying to solve?Many inventions build off of other ideas. Howhave other people tried to solve the problem you’reworking on? How will your invention be different?
Can you draw your ideas out on paper? Inventorsuse pencil and paper to sketch their ideas.
A prototype is a model or areal-life example of youridea. Inventors use simplematerials to bring their ideasto life. Create a prototype.Test your invention.What works well?
How can you improveyour prototype?Inventors work to maketheir ideas better.Inventors think about how toconvince other people to tryor buy their invention. Howwould you talk about youridea to other people?
ShareyourinventionHave a great idea for an invention after you leaveSpark!Lab? Think it, explore it, sketch it, create it,try it, tweak it and then tell us about it! Take apicture or video of your invention and ask a parent,teacher, or other adult to send it to us:via Twitter@SI Inventionuse #sparklaborvia email atsparklab@si.eduvia Facebookfacebook.com/smithsoniansparklabPlease include your first name, age,hometown, and a brief description ofyour invention. If you are under 13,you must have parental permissionto submit your invention.
Spark!Lab is made possible bythe generous contributions ofSmithsonianNational Museum of American HistoryLemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation 2015 Smithsonian Institution
In Spark!Lab, you’ll learn about each step of the process, and all the fun and hard work that goes into inventing. Have a great idea for an invention. Investigate inventions and ideas of the past. Draw pictures and diagrams to figure out how your invention might work. Buil
