STUDY GUIDE

• Did your brain come up with something you might propose as a project?

• If not, go to the next set.

Use your imagination. Imagine specific action.

For example ...

Imagine benefitsImagine beneficiaries

KNOW ANYTHING!

BUT I DON’T

Creative Thinking:

Connecting different things in different ways

Ready?

I will give you four ideas.

Then you add something new that can offer better benefits to many people.

Leaves benefit humans in many ways.IDEA 1

1

salads

soups

milk

meat

juice

V

smoke

sap

oil

essence

powder

Moringa leaves are said to be more beneficial than other plants

IDEA 2

2

Moringa can be consumed in many ways.IDEA 3

3

The moringa tree can be easy to cultivate.

IDEA 4

4

powder

What problems can be solved?

specific ActionBenefits

benefiCiaries

1. Leaves can be consumed in many ways.2. Moringa leaves are said to be more beneficial than other leaves. 3. The moringa tree can be easy to cultivate.

I will propose the production of moringa olifera as a cigarette product to improve the health of smokers all over the world.

Returning the health of smokers will minimize downtime and expensive medical treatments

Yes.Yes, the project design and proposal costs nothing except time, effort, and electricity.

Yes, I can do this alone.Smokers all over the world can benefit from smoking cigarettes of moringa olifera instead of tobacco

Prevention of lung cancer can save the world hundreds of thousands of dollars in medication and medical treatments as well as loss of lives.

Not original: Data about nicotine, moringa olifera, and tobacco manufacturing processes. Original: At present, cigarettes use tobacco only; moringa is consumed as a vegetable or as a powder, never by smoking.

Yes. There is much research about the active ingredients of moringa olifeira and about cigarette manufacturing processes.

action

beneficiaries

results benefits

specific

IT: Use of software to design posters. Business: A cigarette industry that offer health benefits can be a very profitable business.

1. In what way is this a green idea?2. How does it relate to my major

course?3. Can I complete the poster, slides, and

the paper in three weeks?4. Will this use little or zero money?5. Can this be done by less than 3

persons?6. How does this benefit my home

country or community?7. What strong, real need does it

answer?8. What’s original about it? What’s not

original?9. Can I support this with valid

information?