101 Activities For Teaching Creativity And Problem Solving

63. Pass the Hat Background Doug Hall (1994) uses Pass the Hat as a combination brainstorming/brainwriting proce- dure for two o ...

Related Activities Brain Purge [82] Idea Pool [85] Procedure Distribute the Pass the Hat Handout, review it with the particip ...

What will we be able to use from this exercise? What ideas were generated, and which ones were most interesting? 270 101 Activ ...

Pass the Hat Handout Suppose you are concerned with packaging and marketing water in plastic bottles. Your group lists five attr ...

64 Phillips 66 Background Does the name of this activity make you want to gas up your car? Do you have a sudden urge to buy stoc ...

Related Activities Idea Showers [61] Procedure Tell the groups to select a discussion leader and a secretary/recorder who wil ...

65. Play by Play Background Play by Play is another Doug Hall (1994) brainchild that he describes as a step-by-step adventure. T ...

Related Activities Picture Tickler [17] SAMM I Am [33] Say Cheese [44] Handout Play by Play Handout Procedure Distribute th ...

What can we apply? How would you rate the value of this exercise to helping us with this issue? Will this exercise be helpful i ...

Play by Play Handout Assume you manufacture soup and want to improve sales. You might create scenes in which a small child is sh ...

66. Rice Storm Background Not all brain activities help all people. If one activity doesn’t seem helpful, try another. But if yo ...

Handout Rice Storm Handout Time 60 minutes Related Activities Picture Tickler [17] Rorschach Revisionist [18] Ideatoons [26] ...

Tell the group members they should affirm individually this final definition and feel that a consensus has been reached. Probl ...

Rice Storm Handout To illustrate Rice Storm, Michalko (1991) describes a group of computer specialists using Rice Storm to consi ...

67. Spin the Bottle Background Around and around it goes. Where it stops, only the bottle knows. Do you remember playing “Spin t ...

Doodles [37] Drawing Room [59] Procedure Give each group one bottle. Tell each small group to sit on the floor in a circle wi ...

68. Story Boards Background Story Boards originated with Walt Disney, who created series of pictures to illustrate major scenes ...

Related Activities Ideas in a Box [25] Parts Is Parts [30] SAMM I Am [33] Procedure Distribute the Story Boards Handout, revi ...

Story Boards Handout Suppose you are an automobile manufacturer and your problem is developing ways to reduce auto theft. You ge ...

69. That’s the Ticket! Background This activity is “the ticket” to enhancing your group’s creativity. And it’s well worth the pr ...