Virtual Curriculum: Before You Get Started

The following course includes eleven-lesson plans, along with a pacing guide, designed for educators teaching remotely. This curriculum was designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and allows educators to experience the same Invention Convention experience while teaching through remote or hybrid circumstances. 

The Connecticut Invention Convention Curriculum is broken into suggested steps -- or stages -- which we feel will make the process easier for you and your students. Each stage is accompanied by a number of suggested activities, each of which comes with important documents like lesson plans, presentations, and other resources that will make your life easier!

• Stage 1: Introduction to Inventing
• Stage 2: Identifying and Ideating
• Stage 3: Understanding
• Stage 4: The Engineering Design Process
• Stage 5: Communicating
• Stage 6: Entrepreneurship