101 Activities For Teaching Creativity And Problem Solving

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Free Association Activities: “Blue Skies” 189 41. Idea Links Background We all generate ideas using free association. In fact, m ...

Related Activities Noun Hounds [29] Skybridging [46] Procedure Distribute the Idea Links Handout, review the exercise example ...

Will this exercise be helpful in the future for other sessions? What did you learn? What will we be able to use from this exerc ...

Idea Links Handout If your problem is to improve a table fan, you might set it up as follows: Improve ___________ ___________ __ ...

42. Imaginary Mentor Background Did you ever have a secret friend to whom you told all your problems? Do you have an inner voice ...

Time 45 minutes Related Activities Stereotype [10] We Have Met the Problem and It Is We [48] Super Heroes [80] Procedure Inst ...

How would you rate the value of this exercise to helping us with this issue? Will this exercise be helpful in the future for ot ...

43. Lotus Blossom Background The lotus is a pinkish water lily. As with most flowers, lotus blossom petals are nested together. ...

Free Association Activities: “Blue Skies” 197 Related Activities Brain Mapping [36] Doodles [37] Procedure Distribute the Lot ...

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44. Say Cheese Background When we first think of new ideas, they often flit about without defined shape. If we really concen- tr ...

Related Activities Imaginary Mentor [42] Procedure Read the following to participants and ask them to respond individually: “ ...

Free Association Activities: “Blue Skies” 201 45. Sense Making Background Our everyday language is colored by references to the ...

202 101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving Related Activities Say Cheese [44] We Have Met the Problem and I ...

Free Association Activities: “Blue Skies” 203 Sense Making Ideas Handout To illustrate this activity, consider a publisher ’s pr ...

46. Skybridging Background This technique involves working both forward and backward when generating ideas. Engineers call this ...

Related Activities Brain Mapping [36] Idea Links [41] Procedure Tell each group to tape together two sheets of flip-chart pap ...

Skybridging Handout Figure 7.4 shows a sample skybridge based on generating ideas for improving a flash- light. The figure sugge ...

47. Tabloid Tales Background There you are, in line in the supermarket. The customer at the checkout counter just real- ized she ...