Innovation! We did some cool challenges this term...

This term in PBL ( Project based learning ) our question was: How Can Innovation Improve Our Lives? 

So to start, we looked up what innovation was. Dakota and I made a slide to describe what innovation is, plus we added some cool facts about people who used innovation to help us with our daily lives. Like Thomas Edison who invented the light bulb. Or Karl Benz who invented the car. Click here to find out more So that we could learn more about innovation, we got given three challenges to do. Our first was to invent a airoplane that could fly, out of straws, paper, and tape. I made mine with Lara and Dakota. Ours came 3rd with 4 points. It had straws for the body and the wings, and paper to make the point at the top and the cover around the wings. And we used the tape to attach everything. 

Our next challenge was to create something that will make a toy car move from one end of the table to the other, without touching the car physicly. We could only use paper, straws, one balloon, and tape. We came last with 6 points. Because we were slow at getting the car to move across the table. Ours was a straw attached to tho hole of the balloon, and attached that to the car. When we blew through the balloon, and let go, the power at the back of the balloon, would push the car forward. But it took forever to blow it up far enough to get it accross.

What sort of innovation will improve your life?