101 Activities For Teaching Creativity And Problem Solving

120 101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving

101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving.Copyright © 2005 by John Wiley &

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22. Bi-Wordal

Background

Take a word—any word. Now take another word and put them together. What do you

get? Two words, of course! But you also get a certain meaning conveyed by those two

words. Replace one of the words with another and the meaning conveyed by the combi-

nation may change dramatically. Thus, the stimulation value of any combination of

words will vary depending on the words involved.

Objectives

• To help participants generate as many creative ideas as possible


• To help participants learn how to use the activities to generate ideas

Participants

Small groups of four to seven people each

Materials, Supplies, and Equipment

• For each group: markers, two flip charts, and masking tape for posting flip-chart
  sheets


• For each participant: one sheet each of three different colors of sticking dots
  (^1 ⁄ 2 ” diameter) and one pad of 4 x 6 Post-it®Notes


• One thesaurus for each group

Handout

• Bi-Wordal Handout

Time

30 minutes

Related Activities

• Combo Chatter [24]

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