---
title: Calling All Inventors!
description: In this lesson students will imagine an invention that would solve a problem at home or at school.
image: https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/calling_all_inventors-001.png
---

**Subject: STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)**

**Lesson Length: 35 - 45 mins**

**Topic: STEM Challenges**

**Grade Level: 4, 5**

**Standards / Framework: **

- [ISTE Innovative Designer](https://www.iste.org/standards/iste-standards-for-students)

**Brief Description:**  In this lesson, students will imagine an invention that would solve a problem at home or at school.

**Know Before You Start:** Review the STEM challenge process with students before the lesson.

**Hook:**

- Read and discuss the sample comic. 
    - Discuss how the character invented something to solve an everyday problem.

**Activity:**

- Have students brainstorm a list of everyday problems that they face at home and at school.
- Have students think of an invention that can solve this problem.
- Using the sample comic as a guide, have them create a six-panel comic including the following:

**Closure:**

- Have students share their comics describing their inventions with a partner.

**Differentiation:**

- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
- Allow students to work with a peer model.
- Provide sentence frames as needed.
- Provide a list of everyday problems from which to choose.

**Resources:**

- Comic to print or display: [Comic](https://share.pixton.com/qba71mh).

**Suggested Content:**

- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/2078531323277959168/thumbnail.png) Laboratory ](https://content.pixton.com/laboratory)

**Suggested Story Starters:**

- [ If Alexander Graham Bell Were Alive Today... ](https://story-starters.pixton.com/if-alexander-graham-bell-were-alive-today)

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