It’s Your Turn:Improve and Innovate

[Grade 7]

Based on The Ambidextrous Mind©1989 by Good Apple

Choose One of These to Improve:

• Skateboard• Bicycle• Scooter• Shoes or Boots• Hair Dryer• Eye- or Sun-glasses• Textbook• Notebook

• Lunch box/bag• Hat• T-shirt• Radio• Belt/sash• Chair• Fork or spoon• Pocket Calculator

Add a Few of These Things:

• Lights• Velcro• Dials or gauges• Pockets• Hooks or clips• Zippers• Hinges• Magnets

• Timer• Music/sounds• Patterns• Messages• Pipes• Springs• Levers• Padding

Make it do some of these:

• Bend• Twist• Fold• Bounce• Stretch• Compress

• Inflate or contract• Glow• Spin• Bounce• Float• Hang

Create a Picture of Your Creation

Describe: • Its purpose

• How you’ve improved on what it was

• Who would benefit from it

Floating “Time In The Sun” Sunglasses• Times how long you’ve been in the

sun, and floats if you drop overboard

• Plain sunglasses usually do neither

• Helps people who like to be in the sun (and water) know how much sun they’re getting