Lateral Thinking

These puzzles are designed to help you to think 'outside the box'.
For the top puzzle you have to remove 8 sticks to leave two squares remaining.
For the middle puzzle you have to change the position of three sticks to point the arrow down.
For the bottom puzzle you have to go through all the dots using one continuous line.

From this exercise you can understand how there can be more than one approach to a problem.

Idea Development as a class using mind maps

We created mind maps in groups that we then passed around the room and the other groups expanded the ideas. We created 5 mind maps that were broken into the age groups, 5-10, 11-18, 19-30, 31-45. This method of idea development is a great way of expanding your ideas as many more people can contribute and therefore areas that may have not been thought out by the first group will be picked up by the subsequent groups.