101 Activities For Teaching Creativity And Problem Solving

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75. Grab Bag Forced Association Background This activity is similar to Tickler Things [21], except Hall (1994) modified it for g ...

Procedure Distribute to each group one grocery bag containing the items listed above. Tell the participants that one group memb ...

76. It’s Not My Job Background Have you ever been curious about other people’s jobs? What exactly do they do? How do they do it? ...

Related Activities I Like It Like That [55] Rolestorming [77] Procedure Divide participants into small groups of four to seve ...

It’s Not My Job Handout Suppose you want to improve a bathtub. One group member’s interest area is gardening and he decides that ...

77. Rolestorming Background We all play various roles in our lives: butcher, baker, candlestick maker, mother, father, brother, ...

For each participant: one sheet each of three different colors of sticking dots (^1 ⁄ 2 ′′diameter) and one pad of 4 x 6 Post-i ...

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78. Roll Call Background Are you an extrovert? Did you always try to answer teachers’ questions in school? Do you like to shout ...

Time 45 minutes Related Activities Text Tickler [20] Blender [58] Force-Fit Game [74] Procedure Divide the participants into ...

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Roll Call Handout Assume your group is dealing with the problem of how to improve a kitchen table. Group members call out such w ...

79. Sculptures Background For many people, a sculpture is a place for pigeons to light; for others, a sculpture may represent a ...

For each group: a variety of materials unrelated to the problem to be solved, for instance: string, rope, blocks of wood, wire, ...

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Sculptures Handout Imagine you are in a group using Sculptures to improve communication within an orga- nization (Faafeng, 1986) ...

80. Super Heroes Background “Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane!” These words, which describe the super hero Superma ...

Time 75 minutes Related Activities Fairy Tale Time [40] Imaginary Mentor [42] Rolestorming [77] Procedure Distribute the Supe ...

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