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| AusInvent- This site offers students useful information on what is required for product viability, legal requirements and Australian inventors associations. |
http://www.ausinvent.com/
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| IPAustralia- A federal government department, grants patents and registers designs and trademarks. |
http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/
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| Commerce Queensland: Queensland's Chamber of Commerce and Industry |
http://www.commerceqld.com.au/
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| Engineering Queensland- Shows the insides and workings of a toy, descriptions of dozens of inventions from other parts of the world. |
http://qld.ieaust.org.au/jetspeed/
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| The Inventor's Association of Australia in Queensland- It could be helpful in giving students an understanding of how rough ideas are developed into viable products. |
http://www.uq.net.au/innovation/
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| Amazing kids!- A feature, Amazing kids! of the month lists a number of young people and the products they have invented. The site shows children what others can do and are doing. |
http://www.amazing-kids.org/
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| Build-it-yourself toy laboratory-The site provides plans for creating interesting toys and models using mainly junk. |
http://www.build-it-yourself.com
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| Exploring Leonardo- Activities include Be inventive a program to give children the chance to design products to meet certain challenges. |
http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/LeoHomePage.html
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| Give an Aussie a go! Showcasing Aussie places, people and products to the world- Part of this promotion is of Australian inventions. |
http://www.giveanaussieago.com.au/
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| Greatest engineering achievements of the twentieth century- Children will gain an understanding of the way products have come into use and been developed over the years, and could come to see how existing products could be improved. |
http://www.greatachievements.org/greatachievements/
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| Inventions- Asks students to be members of a team of alien scientists dropped on Earth to take home to Planet Zap a list of useful inventions. They also have to design and make a prototype of a useful product. |
http://www.cap.nsw.edu.au/bb_site_intro/stage2_Modules/inventions/inventions.htm
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| InventorEd Presents: Kids inventor resources- This site will help help children become aware of the problems involved increating and marketing a product. |
http://www.inventored.org/k-12/
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| Inventors- Students will be able to get a broad picture of products, inventions and inventing in different countries. |
http://inventors.about.com/
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| Kids' Cafe for K12 kid inventors and inventions- An American site which aims to encourage young people to develop their skills as inventors. |
http://kids.patentcafe.com
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| TalentEd: Young Einsteins- |
http://scs.une.edu.au/TalentEed/EdSupport/Einsteins.htm
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| The Virtual museum of music inventions- This site contains a range of student-designed instruments. |
http://www.op97.k12.il.us/schools/longfellow/lrexford/base/
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| Inventions- Australia's best!- This WebQuest aims to help children find out about Australian inventions and inventors. |
http://www.web-and-flow.com/members.hbutler/ausinvent/webquest.htm
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Address |
| History of office products- This list of ten office products with their inventors and history could demonstrate to students the various ways new products come onto the market; some by planning and design, like the biro, some by accident, like post-it notes. |
http://www.writeonoffice.com/info/history.htm
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| Inventions that are needed |
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/Invneed.html
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| Inventions: What the ancients used- This page describes ways the ancient peoples cooked food, cleaned clothes and signalled remotely. |
http://www.cobblestonepub.com/pages/Inventions.html
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| Taiwan products online: Company directory |
http://manufacture.com.tw/cgi-bin/ordernow/compdirectory.pl
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Address |
| Bad human factors designs- This site illustrates dozens of everyday items that do not function as they should or have inherent problems because of poor design. |
http://www.baddesigns.com/
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| Food product design- Contains articles on designing food products as well as recent innovations in the food design area. |
http://www.foodproductdesign.com/
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| Graphic design: Who are you talking to? |
http://www.competis.com/Graphics_Design.htm
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| Invention dimension- Includes dozens of links to sites of value to schools in the design and development of products. |
http://web.mit.edu/invent/
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| Machines and things that move- This unit of work for lower primary students engages them in investigating simple machines and constructing working models. May be useful in the Year 4 to 5 area as it is related to designing and constructing a product. |
http://education.qld.gov.au/tal/tips/00980.htm
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| Product design and development |
http://www.rqriley.com/pro-dev.html
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| Robert Q Riley Enterprises: Free Downloads- The download page offers free plans and instructions for building a go-kart, a downhill racer and a mini hovercraft. |
http://www.rqriley.com/download.html
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| Total beauty- This site encourages students to take into account the effect of their products on the environment. |
http://www.biothinking.com/btintro.htm
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| Turning students into inventors |
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~meg3c/id_sep/id_sep.html
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