101 Activities For Teaching Creativity And Problem Solving

80 101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving

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

Sons, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Pfeiffer, an Imprint of Wiley. http://www.pfeiffer.com

Handout

• Excerpt Excitation Handout

Time

20 minutes

Related Activities

• A Likely Story [15]


• PICLed Brains [16]


• Say What? [19]

Procedure

1. Distribute the Excerpt Excitation Handout and ask participants to review it with
   you and indicate to them how the ideas were derived from the quotes. Ask then if
   they have any questions.


2. Instruct participants to read a list of quotations from various authors covering dif-
   ferent topics. They should review at least thirty varied quotations.


3. Have each individual select one of the quotations and think about its meaning.
   Have them free-associate and write down whatever idea comes to mind on Post-
   it®Notes to be placed on a flip chart for evaluation.


4. After about 10 minutes, tell them to select another quotation and repeat Step 2
   until they have generated as many ideas as possible. Tell them to not be discour-
   aged if not all quotations spark ideas. That’s not the purpose of this exercise. If
   even one quotation triggers one good idea, then it was worth the effort.


5. Tell them to write down any ideas on Post-it®Notes (one idea per note) and place
   them on flip charts for evaluation.

Debrief/Discussion

Suggest that participants experiment and select quotations that pertain to their problem

topics as well as those that do not.

Ask them to discuss why some quotes seem to work better than others.

Also consider having participants debrief using the following questions:

• What was most helpful about this exercise?


• What was most challenging?


• What can we apply?


• How would you rate the value of this exercise to helping us with this issue?


• Will this exercise be helpful in the future for other sessions?

05 VG 77-118b 10/5/04 5:05 PM Page 80