Post on 13-Jul-2015
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LET’S THINK!! LET’S THINK!!
An aid to creative thinking, taken from Tony Ryan’s ’20 Thinker’s
Keys’.
Give 3 ways to…
• read a book that is 100 metres away
• keep your valuables safe without a locker
• drink soup without a spoon
Work out 3 ways to –•clean your teeth without a toothbrush
•cook toast without a toaster•paint a chair without a paintbrush
•mow the lawn without a mower
• List things you can’t put in water
• List things you cannot measure with a ruler
• List things you would not find in Scotland
• List things you cannot do with a pencil
CAN YOU:
Name 10 things that you could not clean.
List 5 sounds that you have never heard.
Name 10 things that you could not photograph.
CAN YOU:
The Alphabet Key
Write an A-Z of…
•things in a school
•means of transport
•famous people
•foods
•sports
Brainstorm as many ways you canBrainstorm as many ways you canto encourage people NOT toto encourage people NOT to
drive their cars to work.drive their cars to work.
Key – INTERPRETATION
Describe an unusual situation and then think of some different explanations for the existence of that situation.
JUSTIFICATION:
Another innovative thinking exercise. Develops the ability to consider a wide range of consequences.
Give three possible reasons for each of these:
• a boy is running away from a woman carrying her handbag• your next door neighbour carries a dog lead when he has no dog• a man is on a cliff waving his arms about frantically
You need to retrieve your kite from a very tall tree without breaking it, by using only:
•a packet of sweets
•a hairbrush
•a comic
How would you do this?
We would be better off if:
• dogs could talk to us
• school started at age 20
• children taught each other
State how and why these ideas might work.
What do the following have in common…
• a toilet and a car
• a cat and a book
• a flower and a packet of crisps
Predict 5 present day household appliances which will be obsolete in 20 years
time.Say why - and what, if anything,
will replace them.