1. Brainwriting
Rules: many ideas, defer judgment, wild ideas OK, record ideas
Topic: “Hand-operated machines that do something interesting”
One idea per line, as many as you can on sheet of blank paper
For 4 minutes Go
Form team of 4
(on slides, lines appear 1 by 1, must link clock manually)
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2. Brainwriting (continued)
Rotate sheets left
Read the ideas and add more to the sheet
For 4 minutes Go
Form team of 4
Rotate sheets left.
List new ideas on card, one idea per line, use both sides, M minutes
Rotate cards left
“Change scope and think of hand-operated machines that do something to a cucumber.
List new ideas, P minutes
Review and count ideas.
Team with most ideas gets a candy prize
Conclusion: These are possible robot ideas. Run this
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3. Brainwriting (continued)
Rotate sheets left
Read the ideas
New topic: “Hand-operated machines that do something to a cucumber”
For 3 minutes Go
This is a scope change. Good way to generate new ideas.
Review and count ideas.
Team with most ideas gets a candy prize
Conclusion: These are possible robot ideas. Run this
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4. Brainwriting (continued)
Count total number of ideas by your team
Select the most interesting idea
At home, run this activity with your friends to get ideas for the robot
Conclusion: These are possible robot ideas. Run this activity with some of your friends to get more ideas for the bot project.
Candy prize for team with most ideas.