California Career and Technical Education Standards

• IT.FS.5.1 Apply appropriate problem-solving strategies and critical thinking skills to wor...
• IT.FS.5.3 Use critical thinking skills to make informed decisions and solve problems.

California Academic Content Standards (Reinforced)

• ELA.9-10.R.CAGT.2.5 Extend ideas presented in primary or secondary sources through original analysis...3

• Hook - Hooks / Set

  *Note this lesson follows the "Brainstorm First" Lesson.

  Show the picture or slide about the raining brains.

  Ask the students about the brainstorm session in the "Brainstorm First" lesson, ask them if at the end of the session did they feel that they needed an umbrella.

  Pause for a minute, to let them get think about it, and then ask them:

  "Now that we have all of the brainstorm stuff, what do we do with it?"

  Pause to let them answer, but only for a minute.

  Inform them that they will now learn how to organize their brainstorm session ideas.

  *NOTE:  The following is located in the powerpoint, you can seperate it or pause after the review and check for understanding.  Just remember that this is part of the set.

  Review what a brainstorm is.  Use the Powerpoint provided in the Resource area

  Brainstorming is a process of spontaneous thinking used by an individual or by a group of people to generate a number of ideas without criticism or judgment about the ideas. Brainstorming is an important part in each of the stages of all problem-solving methods.

  Brainstorming is part of the web development process, and can be used throughout the design phase.  Common topics or questions within a web design team, a web design project, or working with a client on their website can be answered using brainstorming.

  Refer to the “Brainstorm First” lesson.

  • Brainstorm Picture (JPG) [ View Image ] [ Download Original ]
  • Brainstorm Picture (PPT) [ Download ]
• Check for Understanding - Check Understanding

  Using the TAPPLE method for checking for understanding, ask the students if they can recall the key concepts of a brainstorm session.

  The answers you are looking for are: 

  • Everything is written down.
  • Keep to a time limit. 
  • No Criticism
  • Work for Quantity
  • Hitchhiking Welcome
  • Freewheeling Encouraged
     

  The TAPPLE method:

  • T each First
  • A sk a Question
  • P ause
  • P ick a Non-Voluteer (at Random)
  • L isten to the Response
  • Provide Effective Feedback

  (See this website for more information on TAPPLE ( http://www.myboe.org/portal/default/Content/Viewer/Content?action=2&sciId=825 ).

  --Continue to the Lecture
• Lecture - Lecture

  Review what a brainstorm is.  Use the PowerPoint provided in the Resource area

  Brainstorming is a process of spontaneous thinking used by an individual or by a group of people to generate a number of ideas without criticism or judgment about the ideas. Brainstorming is an important part in each of the stages of all problem-solving methods.

  Brainstorming is part of the web development process, and can be used throughout the design phase.  Common topics or questions within a web design team, a web design project, or working with a client on their website can be answered using brainstorming.

  Refer to the “Brainstorm First” lesson.

  Follow these steps to organize the results from a brainstorm session; remember that to organize the comments, answers, or ideas as they relate to the brainstorm topic.

  •  Group all of the comments, answers, or ideas in similar groups
  • Post-It notes
  • Index cards
  • Different sheets of paper
  • Label the groups of comments
  • Text labels
  • Colored labels          
  • Prioritize the individual ideas in a group
  • Pick as a group which ideas are best
  • It’s ok to have a discussion or to support an idea.
  • This is the time to speak out either for an idea or comment.
  • If you are working with a client, you will want their ideas and input as well.
  • Voting on this works out great
  • Pick the top two ideas, if there is a tie for an idea, pick both of them.
  • Prioritize the groups
  • Pick as a group which ideas are best
  • Voting on this works out great
  • Select the top five or six ideas or comments that work best with the brainstorm topic.
  • There may be more that you want to add later, so keep the other ideas at hand.
  • You and your group will be concentrating on producing, solving, or implementing the top five or six ideas.
  • The ideas generated from both the brainstorm session and the organization session will influence the direction of your web site design process.
  • Revisit the ideas once you have completed the top five identified ideas.
  • Reorganize the rest of the ideas as priorities may have changed.

  You may need to have other brainstorm sessions as a result of this session.  That is OK, as this is a tool that you should use often during a web site development process, or in the design, development, or testing stage of a web site development.  Use the Brainstorm tool to help you understand a problem, become more creative, or tackle a project.  The results will always provide a potential solution or outcome.

  • Organizing Brainstorm Content Powerpoint [ Download ]
• Checking for Understanding - Check Understanding

  Check for understanding by asking what each of the main points means to them.  Ask the question to randomly selected students.  Use the TAPPLE method previously indicated.
• Demo - Demo / Modeling

  Using the provided "Brainstorm Organizing Handout" document, the comments and ideas you gathered from the previous day's lesson (the "Brainstorm First" Lesson), and a document camera, group all of the words onto page two of the handout.

  Run through the priortizing steps for both the ideas and the groups.

  Write down the topic in the middle box on the first page of the handout, and write down all of the number one ideas or comments, keep going down the number list or until you have five or six ideas written down.

  At each step you will need to stop and refer back to the presentation.

  Continually check for understanding using the tapple method.  Ask the students what the next step is.

  Note:  If you do not have access to a document camera, you can make a transparent copy of the document and use an overhead projector.  Or, if you have access to a writing tablet (wacom or other type), you can use the tablet tools to write over the handout.  Use what is available to you.  You can also sketch out the paper on a whiteboard and then use that a the demo.

  Explain about the handout:

  The student will write down their seperated ideas onto page two of the handout, and then they will need to put in their top five or six ideas on page one, with the topic placed in the middle box on that sheet.  They can write their top answers in any of the boxes surrounding the middle box on the first page.

  • Brainstorm Organizing Handout [ Download ]
• Checking for Understanding

  Check for understanding at each pause in the demonstration.  Ask the question to randomly selected students.  Use the TAPPLE method previously indicated.  Keep this moving along as you will need at least 35-36 minutes for the rest of the lesson and for closure.
• Group Work - Group Work

  Hand out the brainstorming sheets from the "Brainstorm First" Lesson.

  The student will write down their separated ideas onto page two of the handout, and then they will need to put in their top five or six ideas on page one, with the topic placed in the middle box on that sheet.  They can write their top answers in any of the boxes surrounding the middle box on the first page.

  Have the students use the techniques provided during the lecture and demo to quickly come up with the top five items to focus on.

  1. Divide the class into the same groups as they were in during the "Brainstorm First" lesson.
  2. Hand out, to the groups, the brainstorm worksheets from that lesson.
  3. Review the rules for organising the brainstorming content.
  4. Inform the students that they will need to start with one of the handouts, and that they will need to complete all three before the end of the class.
  5. Give the class  about 10 minutes for each worksheet.  Using a timer time the excercise until two minutes are left and then count down every 30 seconds.
  6. Have the students move to the next worksheet, allowing another ten minutes.  Use the same timing method described above.
  7. Have the students move on to the last worksheet, and again allow about ten minutes. Use the same timing method described above.

  While they are working on this assignment, walk around the room to observe and offer help to those that may not grasp the lesson.

  Collect all of the worksheets before moving on to the closure.

  • Brainstorm Organizing Handout [ Download ]
• Closure - Closure

  This should only take five to six minutes

  At random select a couple of worksheets from the groups, and write all ideas on the board or overhead projector.

  Ask the groups if there were anything different they would do different that what you posted.

• Brainstorm Picture (JPG) [ View Image ] [ Download Original ]
• Brainstorm Picture (PPT) [ Download ]
• Organizing Brainstorm Content Powerpoint [ Download ]
• Brainstorm Organizing Handout [ Download ]
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