🎯 Learning Intention

I will reflect on how inventors approach failure, persistence, and problem-solving, and apply those mindsets to my own learning this week.

✅ Success Criteria

• I can describe one strategy inventors use to overcome challenges.
• I can connect that mindset to my own work in class or projects.
• I can set a small, achievable goal for this week’s progress.

☀️ Warm-Up / Journal (10 min)

“Think of a time when something you were building or learning didn’t work the first time.

What did you do next? What might an inventor have done?”

Students write for 5–7 minutes in their Tech Journal.

Encourage them to draw parallels between invention and their current course (e.g., debugging code, fixing network errors, improving a survey question, refining a design).

🧠 Mini-Lesson (10–15 min) — The Inventor’s Loop

Visualize this cycle:

Imagine a wheel labeled: Curiosity → Experiment → Failure → Adjustment → Success → Curiosity again.

Talk through each step:

1. Curiosity: Ask “What if?”
2. Experiment: Try without knowing if it’ll work.
3. Failure: Gather information, not defeat.