cREATIVITY DEFINITIONS
Thinking of unique or interesting ways to do things.
Includes artistic achievements, problem solving and even physical activity.
Thinking outside the box and coming up with novel plans.
Includes artistic achievements, problem solving and even physical activity.
Thinking outside the box and coming up with novel plans.
KEY VOCABULARY:
imagination, inovation, originality, ingenuity, inspiration
imagination, inovation, originality, ingenuity, inspiration
WATCH
The Artist 3.10min
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CLASS DISCUSSION
We are always told to think more creatively! Make it interesting!
What subject at school requires the greatest level of creativity?
We are always told to think more creatively! Make it interesting!
What subject at school requires the greatest level of creativity?
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- What job would require the most creativity?
- How many footballs could you balance on your desk?
- If you could have any, which two superpowers would you choosen - one you have to invent?
- If you were an animal, what animal would you be and why?
- If they were writing a book about you and you got to choose the title, what would it be?
- Out of the 24 character strengths, how important is CREATIVITY to becoming a good person - where do you rank it?
PLAN
The What if Challenge??
Research studies have shown that creativity can actually be trained.
Many good innovators take an existing object and ask clever questions to twist the very concept of it and make it new.
Steve Jobs didn’t start with the idea of a smartphone. He just took an existing cell phone and asked a very simple question:
How can we improve it to make it better – or even the best?
Build creative thinking by using the three “What ifs”
(1) What if I completely changed how its done (the object / the skill / the system / the relationship, etc)?
(2) What if I changed or improved an object so it could be popular in 10 years? WHat would it look like?
(3) What if I had a one-million-dollar investment to improve it, what would I do?
These questions can become powerful tools that can help you to think differently.
Your Turn.
Take an idea you have or an object that needs improving and ask the three 'What ifs' to see where you end up?
Get creative!
Research studies have shown that creativity can actually be trained.
Many good innovators take an existing object and ask clever questions to twist the very concept of it and make it new.
Steve Jobs didn’t start with the idea of a smartphone. He just took an existing cell phone and asked a very simple question:
How can we improve it to make it better – or even the best?
Build creative thinking by using the three “What ifs”
(1) What if I completely changed how its done (the object / the skill / the system / the relationship, etc)?
(2) What if I changed or improved an object so it could be popular in 10 years? WHat would it look like?
(3) What if I had a one-million-dollar investment to improve it, what would I do?
These questions can become powerful tools that can help you to think differently.
Your Turn.
Take an idea you have or an object that needs improving and ask the three 'What ifs' to see where you end up?
- An invention you have
- A sport you love
- An IT gadget
- A subject at school
Get creative!
ACTIVITY
Complete the Incomplete
Size: 3 students at a time
Time: 5 - 7 mins
Equipment: Whiteboard and markers
A classic test of creativity, the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking was introduced by psychologist Ellis Paul Torrance as a way to administer a more creatively inclined IQ test.
Size: 3 students at a time
Time: 5 - 7 mins
Equipment: Whiteboard and markers
A classic test of creativity, the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking was introduced by psychologist Ellis Paul Torrance as a way to administer a more creatively inclined IQ test.
- The teacher draws repeated images on the whiteboard (like the ones below) and asks three students to come up and creatively finish the picture in 1 minute.
- Other students then vote to choose the most creative and imaginative winner.
- Use a loud countdown clock to amp up the pressure!
