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Empowering Young Minds: The Impact of Invention Education in K-12 Classrooms

Invention education equips students with the ability to solve real life challenges by encouraging them to be inquisitive and providing them with a way to discover the answers. Invention education helps contextualize learning for kids, helping to show the value of education in the real world. United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) EquIP HQ online platform offers free activities and lessons plans to help support invention education.
Equip HQ
By: EquIP HQ
Published: October 30, 2024
This resource originally appeared on NEA.org

EquIP HQ is your invention education headquarters for everything related to intellectual property. Play online games and activities, watch inspirational and educational videos, all while learning how you, too, can innovate and change the world.

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Explore EquIP HQ — a FREE resource to engage K-12 students with online games and activities that introduce intellectual property concepts and support project-based learning with cross-curricular, standards-aligned content.

EquIP HQ offers:

  • Teacher-tested lesson plans
  • Fun interactive grade-level activities
  • Video interviews with real-life inventors
  • Standards-informed content

And there is NO student data collected.

Dive into EquIP HQ and take on exciting challenges! Help your students discover the worth of their ideas and build their confidence in tackling real-world problems.

Students and educators will enjoy inventing, branding, and creating original works while enhancing their understanding of intellectual property. Explore patents, trademarks, copyrights, and other forms of IP protection.

Join us at EquIP HQ for an engaging journey filled with fun challenges!

LEARN HOW EQUIP HQ IS SHAPING THE NEXT GENERATION OF INNOVATORS

Watch these videos to learn more about EquIP HQ.
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Intro to EquIP HQ

This video is an introduction to EquIP HQ, a free online educational portal for everything related to intellectual property.
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Inventor Stories
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Inventor Stories: Alissa Chavez

Alissa Chavez tells the story behind her invention, the Hot Seat, and recounts how she overcame the challenges she faced as a young inventor. Grades K-12.
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Prototype Zone
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Get to Know Prototype Zone

This instructional video introduces the prototyping phase of the invention process and offers a brief overview of the Prototype Zone activity.
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