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.Why are coins usually round?10.Why are stamps usually rectangular?11.Why are road signs usually white writing on a green background or yellowwriting on black background?12.Why do fish have scales?14.Why are coins often made of copper?Useful questions to ask myself when ANALYSING theCREATIVE DESIGNS of NATURE and HUMAN BEINGS""86 Creative ThinkingLearn to Think Lesson Twenty-onePossible answers1.Why do pencils usually have six sides rather than three or ten?Easier to hold, make, store in boxes, don t roll.2.Why does a tree have 1000s of leaves rather than four or five?Leaves are the mouth and nose of tree to take in food or carbon dioxide.Treescan t move around Earth to gather food like animals.They need many mouths(pores in leaves), and hence leaves, to gather food.3.Why are newspaper pages so big compared with the pages of a book?To keep papers thin, so don t need to bind papers, cheaper to make and print,easier to get rid of.4.Why are drinking cups made of clay rather than steel?Clay doesn t get too hot to hold, easier to make clay cups by machine, don t loseheat of drink too quickly.5.Why do dogs and cats have four legs rather than two or six?Run faster, 2 legs needed for holding bones/meat, 6 legs hard to coordinate.6.Why is the colour red used to indicate danger or to be alert ?Red colour is most irritable colour to the eye and makes it pay attention quickly.7.Why are tyres made of rubber?Flexible so soft ride for driver, easy to make and repair, wear slowly.8.Why do forks have four prongs rather than two or ten?Four prongs make a scoop to lift up food, ten would be hard to clean betweenprongs and two prongs wouldn t form a scoop.9.Why are coins usually round?Easy to make, no sharp edges to hold, easy to store, easy to put in machines.10.Why are stamps usually rectangular?Easy to print, easy to make a sheet of stamps, east to tear off sheet,11.Why are road signs usually white writing on a green background or yellowwriting on black background?Green on white and yellow on black are the most contrasting colour combinationsto the eye and are most easily noticed.12.Why do fish have scales?Scales keep fish warm, easy to flow through water, hard to catch hold of.13.Why are coins often made of copper?Copper doesn t rust, copper forms alloy that is strong and it doesn t bend.Useful Question: Why does this thing have certain SCUMPS?87Creative ThinkingLearn to Think Lesson Twenty-twoCreativity fromRandom ObjectsThis strategy is good for creative problem solving, creative writing, and creativeproduct design.It enables you to escape the usual way of thinking aboutthese tasks by making unexpected links via an unrelated object.Examples1.Think of an object that has nothing to do with the task in hand.2.Write down five or so features of this object.3.Try to use one of these features at a time to make a creative link with theproblem, the writing, or product to improve.Not all features of the random inputwill be useful.Task 1:To solve the problem of a dirty school yard.Random object: a pencilFeatures: pointed, coloured, hexagonal shape, wooden, lead , breaks easily.Solutions:" Divide yard into coloured zones.Each class to be responsible for cleanlinessof a particular coloured zone." Students found littering yard have to wear a coloured, hexagonal badge for a day.88 Creative ThinkingLearn to Think Lesson Twenty-twoExamplesTask 2:To describe a person in a story.Random object: a pencilFeatures: pointed, coloured, hexagonal shape, wooden, lead, breaks easily.Description:Mr Policeman has a pointed nose and a hexagonal shaped face that turns avariety of colours when he is cross.He walks as if he has wooden legs.Task 3To improve the design of drinking glasses.Random object: a pencilFeatures: pointed, coloured, hexagonal shape, wooden, lead, breaks easily.Improvements:Make the glasses with hexagonal or six sides.Make each glass in the set adifferent colour to help people identify their glass, place them in a wooden holderfor easy movement from the kitchen.89Creative ThinkingLearn to Think Lesson Twenty-twoStudent worksheetTask 1:Write a brief description of a football player.Random object: a car tyreFeatures: rubbery, thick, wears out, round, noisy, rough, (add more).Your description: (include the words from above)Jack the football player ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Task 2:Improve the design of a packet of breakfast cereal to make it sell better.Random object: a flowerFeatures of object: Different colours, scented, seeds, petals, different shapes,(add more).Suggested creative changes to design ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Task 3:How to reduce the number of cars on city roads.Random object: a newspaperFeatures of object: pages, stories, numbers, index, crosswords, pictures, (add more)Solutions to problem: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________90 Creative ThinkingLearn to Think Lesson Twenty-threeVisual CreativityOur brains mainly remember usual or common shapes (patterns) and what theseshapes represent.We can learn to think flexibly about ideas and patterns afterseeing how people think flexibly by escaping their fixed patterns.In the following five minute exercises, you will get a score.A score of: 0-3 categories of ideas suggests low flexibility (creativity)4-7 categories suggests average flexibility8+ categories suggests high flexibityExamplePossibilities:doughnuttyrebullseyeperson s eyeringclockdoor handlehat, looking down from abovecompasscassette tapesticky tapebuttonsaucer/plateCDetc91Creative ThinkingLearn to Think Lesson Twenty-threeStudent Worksheet1.In five minutes, write down as many different things this line drawing couldrepresent.Then we will change papers and your partner will mark as manyacceptable answers that you have.These must be agreed upon by most of theclass.2.In five minutes write down as many different things this line drawing couldrepresent.Then we will change papers and your partner will mark as manyacceptable answers that you have.These must be agreed upon by most of theclass.92 Creative ThinkingLearn to Think Lesson Twenty-fourCreative Thinkingabout Uses" This is an exercise to help you think more flexibly about uses of something." 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.Why are coins usually round?10.Why are stamps usually rectangular?11.Why are road signs usually white writing on a green background or yellowwriting on black background?12.Why do fish have scales?14.Why are coins often made of copper?Useful questions to ask myself when ANALYSING theCREATIVE DESIGNS of NATURE and HUMAN BEINGS""86 Creative ThinkingLearn to Think Lesson Twenty-onePossible answers1.Why do pencils usually have six sides rather than three or ten?Easier to hold, make, store in boxes, don t roll.2.Why does a tree have 1000s of leaves rather than four or five?Leaves are the mouth and nose of tree to take in food or carbon dioxide.Treescan t move around Earth to gather food like animals.They need many mouths(pores in leaves), and hence leaves, to gather food.3.Why are newspaper pages so big compared with the pages of a book?To keep papers thin, so don t need to bind papers, cheaper to make and print,easier to get rid of.4.Why are drinking cups made of clay rather than steel?Clay doesn t get too hot to hold, easier to make clay cups by machine, don t loseheat of drink too quickly.5.Why do dogs and cats have four legs rather than two or six?Run faster, 2 legs needed for holding bones/meat, 6 legs hard to coordinate.6.Why is the colour red used to indicate danger or to be alert ?Red colour is most irritable colour to the eye and makes it pay attention quickly.7.Why are tyres made of rubber?Flexible so soft ride for driver, easy to make and repair, wear slowly.8.Why do forks have four prongs rather than two or ten?Four prongs make a scoop to lift up food, ten would be hard to clean betweenprongs and two prongs wouldn t form a scoop.9.Why are coins usually round?Easy to make, no sharp edges to hold, easy to store, easy to put in machines.10.Why are stamps usually rectangular?Easy to print, easy to make a sheet of stamps, east to tear off sheet,11.Why are road signs usually white writing on a green background or yellowwriting on black background?Green on white and yellow on black are the most contrasting colour combinationsto the eye and are most easily noticed.12.Why do fish have scales?Scales keep fish warm, easy to flow through water, hard to catch hold of.13.Why are coins often made of copper?Copper doesn t rust, copper forms alloy that is strong and it doesn t bend.Useful Question: Why does this thing have certain SCUMPS?87Creative ThinkingLearn to Think Lesson Twenty-twoCreativity fromRandom ObjectsThis strategy is good for creative problem solving, creative writing, and creativeproduct design.It enables you to escape the usual way of thinking aboutthese tasks by making unexpected links via an unrelated object.Examples1.Think of an object that has nothing to do with the task in hand.2.Write down five or so features of this object.3.Try to use one of these features at a time to make a creative link with theproblem, the writing, or product to improve.Not all features of the random inputwill be useful.Task 1:To solve the problem of a dirty school yard.Random object: a pencilFeatures: pointed, coloured, hexagonal shape, wooden, lead , breaks easily.Solutions:" Divide yard into coloured zones.Each class to be responsible for cleanlinessof a particular coloured zone." Students found littering yard have to wear a coloured, hexagonal badge for a day.88 Creative ThinkingLearn to Think Lesson Twenty-twoExamplesTask 2:To describe a person in a story.Random object: a pencilFeatures: pointed, coloured, hexagonal shape, wooden, lead, breaks easily.Description:Mr Policeman has a pointed nose and a hexagonal shaped face that turns avariety of colours when he is cross.He walks as if he has wooden legs.Task 3To improve the design of drinking glasses.Random object: a pencilFeatures: pointed, coloured, hexagonal shape, wooden, lead, breaks easily.Improvements:Make the glasses with hexagonal or six sides.Make each glass in the set adifferent colour to help people identify their glass, place them in a wooden holderfor easy movement from the kitchen.89Creative ThinkingLearn to Think Lesson Twenty-twoStudent worksheetTask 1:Write a brief description of a football player.Random object: a car tyreFeatures: rubbery, thick, wears out, round, noisy, rough, (add more).Your description: (include the words from above)Jack the football player ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Task 2:Improve the design of a packet of breakfast cereal to make it sell better.Random object: a flowerFeatures of object: Different colours, scented, seeds, petals, different shapes,(add more).Suggested creative changes to design ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Task 3:How to reduce the number of cars on city roads.Random object: a newspaperFeatures of object: pages, stories, numbers, index, crosswords, pictures, (add more)Solutions to problem: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________90 Creative ThinkingLearn to Think Lesson Twenty-threeVisual CreativityOur brains mainly remember usual or common shapes (patterns) and what theseshapes represent.We can learn to think flexibly about ideas and patterns afterseeing how people think flexibly by escaping their fixed patterns.In the following five minute exercises, you will get a score.A score of: 0-3 categories of ideas suggests low flexibility (creativity)4-7 categories suggests average flexibility8+ categories suggests high flexibityExamplePossibilities:doughnuttyrebullseyeperson s eyeringclockdoor handlehat, looking down from abovecompasscassette tapesticky tapebuttonsaucer/plateCDetc91Creative ThinkingLearn to Think Lesson Twenty-threeStudent Worksheet1.In five minutes, write down as many different things this line drawing couldrepresent.Then we will change papers and your partner will mark as manyacceptable answers that you have.These must be agreed upon by most of theclass.2.In five minutes write down as many different things this line drawing couldrepresent.Then we will change papers and your partner will mark as manyacceptable answers that you have.These must be agreed upon by most of theclass.92 Creative ThinkingLearn to Think Lesson Twenty-fourCreative Thinkingabout Uses" This is an exercise to help you think more flexibly about uses of something." 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