Enhancing creativity: Building upon

ActivitiesLaura Covert

KAHPERD Conference, Nov. 6-8th, 2013

Creativity is intelligence having fun.Albert Einstein

WHAT’S A GOOD ICEBREAKER???

A VERY LARGE FLOCK OF PENGUINS!

Stranded on an Island

• Sadly, you are being relocated to a stranded deserted island. You can only bring one item with you. What will you bring?– Share the object– Why you chose it – What you plan to do with it

• How can you improve your chances of survival by combining the items in various ways?

Let’s start using our creativity…

Ice Breaker breaker

• Within your groups, create an ice breaker based upon the Stranded Island game we just completed.– It can be verbal, non verbal, active, non active,

etc.– Feel free to incorporate objects in the bag.

Creativity: Where are we?

Questions….

• What are you doing• What have you done• What could be done• If you’re not prepared to be wrong,

you’ll never come up with anything original.- Ken Robinson

SCAMPER• Substitute: What can I use instead?• Combine: How can I combine parts or ideas?• Adapt: What is like it? Can we change that in

some way?• Magnify: Can I make it bigger, stronger, better?• Put to another use: How can I use this in

another way?• Eliminate: Are there parts/areas that can be

taken away?• Rearrange: Can I use a different sequence,

interchange the parts, etc.

Show and Tell

• Think of one of your favorite go to activities.• Share it with the group.• Create one new activity from your original

activity.

Resources

• Creativity in the Classroom, Alane Jordan Starko– http://www.resourcehouse.ae/pdf/creativity%20i

n%20class%20room.pdf

• Group Games and Icebreakers – http://www.group-games.com/index-of-all-group

-games