Week 13 FRIDAY May 11 2007

Good Morning, please hand in your 'Failed Products' assignment.

Next, finish the questions from yesterday.

TODAY: Read section 5.2 (pages 170-171)  You will need to understand the difference between innovations and inventions.  

Questions:
1. Go to the following link.  Click on each of the sidebar links (Your Health, On the Go, etc).  For each one, write down if you feel that this is an Invention or an Innovation and WHY.  
"Be the change you want to see in the world." ... Mahatma Gandhi

http://www.time.com/time/2001/inventions/index.html

2. Go to the following link listing some Canadian Inventions and pick THREE (3) 'inventions' and answer questions a,b, and c

http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/Canadian.htm

a) Who is the 'inventor'?
b) What is the invention?
c) Is this actually an invention or an innovation? Why?  

When you finish please hand it in and see Mr. Southwell an update on your mark.