Impact Learning

Background
This activity is quite basic. All you have to do is change the nature of a problem in different ways. It doesn’t really matter what you change or how you change it. Just change it in any way possible. If you change something, you create a new perspective, and that perspective can lead to other new perspectives and ideas. This is basic free association.

Objectives
• To help participants generate as many creative ideas as possible
• To help participants learn how to use the activities to generate ideas

Participants
Small groups of four to seven people each

Materials,Supplies,and Equipment
• For each group: markers, two flip charts, and masking tape for posting flip-chart sheets 6+
• For each participant: one sheet each of three different colors of sticking dots (1?2” diameter) and one pad of 4 x 6 Post-it® Notes

Handout
• Osborn Question Check List
• Bend It, Shape It Handout

Time
30 minutes

Related Activities
• PICLed Brains [16]

Procedure
1. Distribute one Osborn Question Check List and one Bend It, Shape It Handout to each participant, review them with the participants, and answer any questions they may have.
2. Have the groups practice using the check list using a challenge of their choice or one common to all groups.
3. Encourage the participants to generate at least one idea for each of the words on the check list.
4. Ask each group to share two or three of their ideas.
5. Tell them to write down any ideas on Post-it® Notes (one idea per note) and place them on flip charts for evaluation.

Taken From : Pfeiffer 101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving