teaching resource

Solving Global Problems – Design an Invention Workbook

Updated: 29 Oct 2026

Help your students discover how innovation and invention can solve global problems with an invention project workbook.

Editable: Google Slides
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 4 Pages
Years: 5 - 6

Curriculum

ST3-2DP-T

Plans and uses materials, tools and equipment to develop solutions for a need or opportunity
ST3-3DP-T

Defines problems, and designs, modifies and follows algorithms to develop solutions

VC2S6H02

Scientific understandings, discoveries and inventions are used to inform personal and community decisions and to solve problems that directly affect people's lives
VC2S6I01

With guidance, pose questions to clarify practical problems or inform a scientific investigation, and predict what the findings of an investigation might be based on previous experiences or general rules
VC2S6I06

Communicate ideas and processes using evidence to develop explanations of events and phenomena and to identify simple cause-and-effect relationships
VC2S6I03

Equipment can be used to observe, generate, measure and record data with reasonable precision for repeated measurements, using digital tools as appropriate <ul> <li>recording data using standard units such as the volt, ampere, gram, second and metre, and developing the use of standard prefixes for metric units, such as ‘kilo-’ and ‘milli-’</li> <li>using digital tools such as digital thermometers and soil moisture probes to collect data over time, and recording data in spreadsheets</li> <li>discussing why precision is important in measurement, and comparing the precision of different class data sets, for example the growth of radish seeds in different soil environments and the length of shadows at different times of the day</li> </ul>

teaching resource

Solving Global Problems – Design an Invention Workbook

Updated: 29 Oct 2026

Help your students discover how innovation and invention can solve global problems with an invention project workbook.

Editable: Google Slides
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 4 Pages
Years: 5 - 6

Help your students discover how innovation and invention can solve global problems with an invention project workbook.

How Can Innovation Lead to Global Change?

Innovation plays a vital role in causing global change and advancement. It refers to inventing and applying new ideas, technologies, processes or approaches that lead to improvements, disruptions or advances in different fields.

This year you can inspire your students to be thinkers, builders and world-changers by encouraging them to think outside the box and invent something new. With this printable guidebook, your students can put themselves in the shoes of an inventor and create something unique to solve global problems, such as:

Global warming
Deforestation
Food Insecurity
And more!

This booklet walks your students through the following stages of developing a new invention.

Decide on a problem that needs to be solved.
Brainstorm possible solutions to the problem.
Invent, draw and label an invention to solve the problem.
Describe the invention in detail and explain how it works.
Determine any obstacles that may be encountered in the production of the product.
Pitch and sell a product using an advertisement.

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Curriculum

ST3-2DP-T

Plans and uses materials, tools and equipment to develop solutions for a need or opportunity
ST3-3DP-T

Defines problems, and designs, modifies and follows algorithms to develop solutions

VC2S6H02

Scientific understandings, discoveries and inventions are used to inform personal and community decisions and to solve problems that directly affect people's lives
VC2S6I01

With guidance, pose questions to clarify practical problems or inform a scientific investigation, and predict what the findings of an investigation might be based on previous experiences or general rules
VC2S6I06

Communicate ideas and processes using evidence to develop explanations of events and phenomena and to identify simple cause-and-effect relationships
VC2S6I03

Equipment can be used to observe, generate, measure and record data with reasonable precision for repeated measurements, using digital tools as appropriate <ul> <li>recording data using standard units such as the volt, ampere, gram, second and metre, and developing the use of standard prefixes for metric units, such as ‘kilo-’ and ‘milli-’</li> <li>using digital tools such as digital thermometers and soil moisture probes to collect data over time, and recording data in spreadsheets</li> <li>discussing why precision is important in measurement, and comparing the precision of different class data sets, for example the growth of radish seeds in different soil environments and the length of shadows at different times of the day</li> </ul>

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