Investigate! Invent! Innovate!

Bring invention into your VIRTUAL or BLENDED classroom!

Inspire Grade 7 and 8 students to invent creative solutions to everyday problems with this project-based program. I³’s flexible lessons are curriculum-aligned and easily integrate into teaching plans.

Ideal for virtual or blended classrooms

Aligned with provincial curriculum

No cost to educators in publicly-funded schools

Creativity, Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Critical Thinking & Problem Solving

Communication

Citizenship (Local, Global & Sustainable)

Character and self-directed learning

Collaboration

Program Features

Educators

Educator Training

Pre-recorded virtual training sessions for each lesson available to all educators in the public education system across Canada in both English and French upon registration.

Lesson Plans & Resources

Easy access to dashboard of training, lesson plans and resources including student toolkit with activity sheets and presentations. All available in English & French.

National, Virtual Invention Convention

Opportunities for your students to showcase their work, receive feedback, share their work, and their passion for invention with other student innovators across Canada and the world!

Online Collaboration & Volunteer Feedback

New platform for online collaboration among students and structured support to hold end-of-program culminating events. Trained volunteers provide students with helpful feedback.

No cost to educators - French and English training, lessons and student resources.
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Program Features

Students

Build Product or Prototype

Collaborate to build a prototype or product and plan to launch it! Get real-world feedback from business people and innovators who've been in your shoes!

Research

Identify a problem and use their creativity, inventiveness and problem-solving skills to develop a solution

Showcase your work to the world!

Participate in the National Invention Convention and share your passion for invention with your peers across Canada

I³ features lessons on project management, patents and intellectual property, environmental and societal impact of innovation, market research, and communicating their inventions by creating website, brochures and promotional videos.

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What’s new in the virtual version

New, pre-recorded, online training free to educators in publicly-funded schools across Canada in English or French.
A comprehensive set of curriculum-aligned lesson plans suitable for virtual or blended teaching.
Updated dashboard of program resources including training, lesson plans, and a student toolkit (presentations, worksheets, other materials)
Increased focus on embedding development of the global competencies and measuring achievement of these learning outcomes.
New platform for online collaboration among student teams and for students to showcase their work.
A team of volunteers who provide students with feedback on their projects
A National Invention Convention where students can share their ideas with each other and the world!

*Filmed pre-COVID19

I³ is part of The Learning Partnership’s suite of inclusive innovation education programs, designed to inspire learning and cultivate future-ready skills and global competencies essential for today’s students to become tomorrow’s problems solvers and change makers.

Start your students on their I³ journey today!
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Special thanks to our partners

Thank you to our partners