Part of Lesson Plan: Fostering Creativity

Activity Overview / Details

When students enter the classroom, they will need to get a piece of paper and a pen or pencil to respond to the following prompts written on the board:

    Name as many things as you can that are blue.

    Name all the things this object, "L", could possibly be.

Solicit students to share some of their responses and ask students to put a mark by any of their responses that match any of those they hear from their fellow classmates.  Continue to encourage students to respond.  Hopefully, there will be some creative responses.  

Example: "Cold fingers might be blue" might be a creative response while "Eyes are blue" would be less creative.  "The letter 'L'" is a less creative response than "A stick and its shadow" would be when describing the object drawn on the board.