Invention Adventure presents a lesson highlighted during Chicago Teacher’s Strike

Sept. 16, 2012 - PRLog -- Uplift, Inc. created Invention Adventure to give  teachers the power to change mindsets, to equip students with the skills they need to escape poverty . Invention Adventure provides the  necessary tool  to improve academic performance. http://youtu.be/ZpDkYOhaWnA

Chicago teachers know poor children learn differently than affluent children as their life experiences are different. Affluent children gets lots of play in their homes so when they are placed in strict, hard working, rigorous test-based school environments they thrive as they know in 6 hours they will play again. Poor children are living in hard, life zapping environments and the only place they can play and giggle is at school. Yet, Chicago Public School District has removed all incidences of play and  has purchased the same boring test- based packaged curriculum as an affluent district, knowing psychologically the children in poverty are different. Teachers know  they cannot   achieve an 1 to 1.5 grade level progression a year with a curriculum that does not fit their students need.

Poverty has damaging effect upon students . An excerpt from  the Kindle E-Book, Nurture the Future: Our Children,  sums it best
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When you are poor, you grow up fast.
Billie Holiday (1915 -1959)
Lady Sings the Blues, 1956

Children are losing their innocence by twelve.  The youthful, playful innocence of children – also known as foolishness, has been replaced with street wisdom as children are raising themselves.  They are burdened with finding their own shelter, providing their own food and clothes; things parents should do.

Or worse yet, parents provide these things but spend little time playing or talking to their children, leaving them emotionally poor responsible for creating emotional instability. Physically and mentally, children are poorly equipped to raise themselves.  They need the wisdom and stability of adults to instill in them the character and values necessary to thrive in today’s’ society.  Childhood should be the best carefree, portion of a person’s life.  Our children are being robbed of their youth.  This thievery comes with a price – aggressive, angry, ill prepared, and non-educated youth.

Invention Adventure combines creativity with Physics to create giggles,  play and scientific learning. Most people cringe when they hear the word PHYSICS, even if they had not attended a class within the past 50 years. In a school administered survey, 66.7% Middle/ high school students participants of the Harper Woods (a Detroit Metro School)  Invention Adventure Camp, state they dislike Math and Science, yet 83% state they loved inventing and the Invention Adventure Camp. We were astonished 83% students requested the camps’ return next summer, but with an expansion from 3 hours a day to a full 6 hour school day and from 2 weeks to at least a month so we can include field trips.  

(Check it out here. http://www.fundly.com/kze7tr8i ) If the Chicago Public School District had secured more curriculum like Invention adventure  then  perhaps the Chicago teacher strike would be a thing of the past.