Brainstorming

Simple and complex.

Attributes are categories of characteristics. For example: eye color, height, ethnicity, talents.

Middle school and High school students.

Is an outlet for creative expression and is an effective creative problem-solving technique.

1. There must be deferred judgment.
2. Quantity breeds quality.

Through guided imagery.

Create a grid where you list two similar problems, the attribute, ides for improvement, positives and negatives.

Solution identification. Participants use formal brainstorming and cost benefits analysis. Then they vote.

Warm up. Group building activities.

Rule out criticism. Evaluative comments must be withheld.

Give the student a play by play of what it is like to be at the beach.
Have them draw a picture of their family.

It is a technique that uses attributes to develop new ideas.

Theory of Inventive Problem Solving.

To give students motivation for learning new material

Substitute, combine, adapt, magnify, put to other uses, Eliminate, reverse or rearrange.

The encounter lesson has five questions:
1. question of identity. 2. question of awareness. 3. question of isolation. 4. question of risk or danger. 5. question of wisdom.

Where participants examine both sides of an argument.

It is a matrix where different problems and solutions can be cross-referenced so that the problem solver could enter the dimension of the problem and find principles that have served as keys to solutions in other problems.

A wax museum in a fourth grade classroom on colonial USA.