What is Inventor Cloud?
Inventor Cloud is an educational program of Advanced Methods in Innovation (AMI), a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization and its goal is to prepare students for the 21st century.
How are 21st century learners different?
- Networked
- Multi-taskers
- Digitally literate
- Crave interactivity
- Strong visual-spatial skills
- Tethered to the Internet
- Want to learn things that matter
- Want to be challenged to reach their own conclusions
- Will use technologies that have been invented to do jobs that exist
Courses
Grades 3-6
Six-week courses
Grades 7-8
Nine-week courses
Grades 9-12
Eighteen-week courses
Modules
- Modules are lessons in shorter packages than courses
- They range from a few days to a few weeks, depending on grade level and content
- Modules are written with the realization that teachers cannot always teach an entire course but can still benefit from the content
All content is in the INVENTORcloud™ subscription
All courses are presented in our Moodle Based Team UP site at Team Up
K-12 Courses
Grades K-8
1) Exploring the Engineering Way
2) Problem Solving through Collaboration
3) Engineering in Motion
4) STEM & Earth Sciences
5) Designing Solutions for Today and Tomorrow
6) All Things STEM
High School
1) Design Thinking
2) Innovation, Creativity, and Design Thinking
3) Environmental Sustainability
4) Introduction to Biomedical Engineering
5) Creative Entrepreneurship
6) Introduction to Additive Manufacturing
K-12 Modules
Grades K-8
1) Discovery Basics Module
2) Changes in Motion
3) Weather
4) Natural Resources
5) Ecology and Renewable Energy
6) Force and Motion
7) Mechanics and Robotics
8) Structures and Civil Engineering
9) Engineering and Motion
10) INVENT3D™ Modules / Levels 1 and 2
High School
1) Intro to Design (Additive Manufacturing)
2) Sustainable Architecture
3) Carbon Footprint
4) Health Care
5) Biomedical Engineering
6) Human Organs
Projects and Camps
Innovex Projects
1) Gaining Traction on Mars NASA
2) Let it Glide NASA
3) Composting
4) The Bird Project
5) Floating Zoo
6) Music to My Ears
7) Gearbox
Camps
1) Biomimicry
2) Entrepreneurship
3) Asteroid Threat
4) Repairing the Human Body
5) The World’s Energy
6) Puppets and Puppetry
Manufacturing Academy
INVENTORcloud™ Courses
- Core STEM
- Innovention and Production
- Introduction to Additive Manufacturing
