1% Inspiration 99% "A Bunch of Other Stuff" or Taking The Sweat Out of Genius or Can You Be A Yankee Ingenue?

An Integrated, Interdisciplinary Unit for Grades 9-12 on Inventions, Innovations, and Problem Solving in America. Throughout the history of the United States, Americans have met with many obstacles and adversities. Overcoming these has required thought and in- genuity. This unit is designed to provide students with a basic concept of how Americans have met these challenges through discovery, innovation, and invention, to acquaint students with successful and non-successful inventions of the past, and to realize the need for creative applications for their own lives and futures.