This activity, Modern Fashion and Invention, can be used for any grades third through fifth.  However, for this particular example, third grade objectives are available.  This project combines writing, information, and computer skills.
The activity will meet objective 2.02, 3.06, 4.02, 4.03, 4.07, 4.09, and 4.10 and Goal 5 of the Language Arts Curriculum.  For the Information Skills Curriculum objectives 1.05, 2.03, 2.05, 2.06, 3.05, 4.01, 4.03, 4.05, 4.07, 4.09, 4.10, 5.02, and 5.03.  Objectives 1.3, 2.1, 2.3, 2.4, and 3.1 will be met of the Computer Skills Curriculum.

Materials:
*  Objects of everyday use such as a light bulb or a floppy disk
*  Objects that are very unusual, so that students will not know what they are
*  Digital camera if available if not a regular camera can be used and then scan
    the pictures into the computer

Directions:
1.  Have students choose one object on which to report.
2.  Explain to students that they will be taking the object and inventing a new
     use for it.  Tell them to be creative and not to use the original idea of the
     object.  It may be easier for them to choose something they do not know
     what it is used for.
3.  Have students take a picture of themselves "using" the new and improved
     product.  Have students fix the size of the picture in Photoshop so that it is
     the size students want in their article.
4.  The students will then write a newspaper article on the product.  It can be a
     review, an introduction of the product, or how the product can be used.
     Provide some newspaper and magazine articles for the students to read.
     (Here is an example)
5.  The students should type up the article with the picture on the computer
6.  Save each article on a disk and print it out for the students to display.