EduHound Weekly

Spotlight Site of the Week!

Invention Dimension
Have fun with invention games and explore the wealth of inventor and invention resources, including inventor profiles and patent guidelines.
http://web.mit.edu/invent/invent-main.html

Additional Sites:

• By Kids For Kids: Young Inventors Teacher's Page
  Find creative lessons and projects to inspire innovative thinking and invention in kids form kindergarten through 8th grade.
  http://www.bkfk.com/teachers/index.asp
• Inventors Hall of Fame: Invention Channels
  Find a subject that catches your eye and browse within that channel. You'll find new ideas and start to see the evolution, progression, and possibly even the future of invention.
  http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/1_4_0_channels.asp
• InventNow.org: Teachers
  Features free pdf downloads of invention-themed curricula (elementary, middle, high) from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office of the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
  http://www.inventnow.org/parents/
• Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
  Broadens understanding of history, through research, discussion, and dissemination of ideas, as well as engages young people in the study and exploration of invention and innovation.
  http://invention.smithsonian.org
• The 1900 House: Living without Technology
  By observation, this lesson will help give students a small glimpse into what life was probably like one hundred years ago and how we benefit from modern culture and invention.
  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/1900house/lessons/lesson2a.html

Judi's Corner

This week features a very rare meteor shower that will occur on Saturday, September 1, 2007:

The Aurigid Meteor Shower Observing Campaign

http://aurigids.seti.org

This page gives tips on how best to observe this very rare meteor shower -- on September 1, 2007 -- and participate in an international NASA-sponsored ground-based and airborne observing campaign.