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Draw

Draw your neighbour and write their name.

​Mental Plasticity Test

​Each question contains the initials of the words that will make it a correct phrase- find the missing word....

Eg. 7= D in a W : 7 Days in a Week​

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1. 26 = L of the A

2. 7 = W of the W

3. 64 = S on the CB

5. 1001= A N

​Mental Plasticity Test

1. 26 Letters of the Alphabet

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2. 7 = Wonders of the World of the W

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3. 64 = Squares of on the Chessboard

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4. 1001= Arabian Nights

​Alternative Uses Test

​Eg- A paper clip

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•Fluency – how many uses you can come up with

•Originality – how uncommon those uses are (a paper clip used as a router restarter)

•Flexibility – how many areas your answers cover (cufflinks and earrings –accessories)

•Elaboration – level of detail in responses (“keeping headphones from getting tangled up”)​

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Alternative Uses Test.

State as many uses of a brick as you can...

1. Building

2. As a paper weight

3...

​Fix and light a candle on a wall/board in a way so the candle wax won't drip onto the table below. You have a candle, matchbox and a box of tacks (pins)

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Functional Fixedness Test.

Solving this problem requires recognizing that a box need not only be a container.​

​Convergent Thinking Test

Riddle..

“A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. What is it?”

​......asks Bilbo Baggins in Tolkein’s The Hobbit. ​

​Convergent Thinking Test

Riddle..

“A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. What is it?”

ANSWER: ​“Aha! It’s an egg!”

​Convergent Thinking Test

Riddle..

“A man has married 20 women in a small town. All of the women are still alive and none of them are divorced. The man has broken no laws. Who is the man?  ”

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​Convergent Thinking Test

Riddle..

“A man has married 20 women in a small town. All of the women are still alive and none of them are divorced. The man has broken no laws. Who is the man?  ”

ANSWER: ​“A Priest”​

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​Incomplete Figure Test

Complete the pictures - Example in the next slide​

​Incomplete Figure Test

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Draw

Incomplete Figure Test

​Train Your Mind-

ASK Questions

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​Train your Mind- ASK Questions

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Open Ended

Ask as many questions as you can about the pic

You win a point if the text does not answer your question, you lose if it does.

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​Ask UNRelated Questions

Reverse Brainstorming

​Some text here about the topic of discussion.

Rules	When to NOT follow the rules
Don’t run indoors	If the building is on fire, it may be better to move quickly to get away from the fire.	If a friend is hurt, you my need to run to a teacher to help the friend.	If there is an attack by aliens, it may be necessary to run away from the aliens.
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​ Think about rules you experience everyday.

 When is it okay to NOT follow the rules?

Open Ended

REVERSE BRAINSTORMING

How can we ENSURE Gender Discrimination?

Open Ended

REVERSE BRAINSTORMING

How can we accelerate toward an unsustainable world?

Draw

1. Edward Jenner, a British doctor, noticed that milkmaids who often caught a mild disease called cowpox never seemed to catch the deadly disease smallpox.

2. He decided to do some experiments to test his ideas of how to prevent someone from catching the deadly smallpox.

3. He took some pus from a scab on the arm of a milkmaid who had cowpox.

4. He scratched this cowpox pus into the arm of a young boy called James Phipps.

5. James caught cowpox, and was ill for a while, but soon he was well again.

6. Jenner then took some smallpox pus from a dying victim of the deadly disease.

7. The doctor then scratched this deadly pus into the arm of James Phipps.

8. James did not catch the deadly smallpox disease.

9. Jenner was the first person to discover that people can be protected from one deadly disease by vaccinating them with germs from another related disease that is not deadly.

1 0 . His work saved many lives and led others to develop vaccines.

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1. Edward Jenner, a British doctor, noticed that milkmaids who often caught a mild disease called cowpox never seemed to catch the deadly disease smallpox.

2. He decided to do some experiments to test his ideas of how to prevent someone from catching the deadly smallpox.

3. He took some pus from a scab on the arm of a milkmaid who had cowpox.

4. He scratched this cowpox pus into the arm of a young boy called James Phipps.

5. James caught cowpox, and was ill for a while, but soon he was well again.

6. Jenner then took some smallpox pus from a dying victim of the deadly disease.

7. The doctor then scratched this deadly pus into the arm of James Phipps.

8. James did not catch the deadly smallpox disease.

9. Jenner was the first person to discover that people can be protected from one deadly disease by vaccinating them with germs from another related disease that is not deadly.

1 0 . His work saved many lives and led others to develop vaccines.

Poll

Select the statement(s) you think is/are true.

• Children are more creative than adults

• Children are naturally divergent thinkers

• Creativity may be latent and needs to be nurtured