*PMI= Plus, Minus, Interesting

PrimarySeptemberCreativity Calendar C

If you could be any animal, what would you want to be?List 5 animals in the order that you would choose them.
Tell what abilities each has that you value.
Originality/Evaluation / What is good, bad, and interesting about PE?
*PMI/Yellow, Black Hat
Thinking / If you could design the perfect school to attend, what 3 things would it have to have?
Analysis/Evaluation/
Synthesis / Brainstorm patterns in nature.
Fluency/Patterns / What questions might a firefighter ask a police officer? What questions might a police officer ask a firefighter?
Point of View
Name a restaurant where you would like to eat. Who might not enjoy eatingthere and why?
Originality/Point of View/Evaluation / Create a shoe that all the other children would want to wear.
Originality/Point of View / SCAMPER astraw.
**SCAMPER/Green Hat / How are you like a vacuum? Brainstorm at least 10 ways.
Fluency/Analysis/
Parallel
Analysis/Parallel / If you were a human vacuum what would you prefer to eat?
Evaluation/Parallel
Design a machine that will pick up the plastic trash bags littering the community and turn the bags into something artistic.
Green Hat Thinking / Design somethingoriginal using a paper clip, a straw, button, rubber band and paper cup. Explain its use.
Synthesis /Originality / Sketch a picture of you doing something that makes you happy.
What season, time of day, or time of the week make you feel the happiest?
Originality/Patterns / You are a book in a backpack. Write about your feelings as the book.
Parallel/Red Hat Thinking / Brainstorm or draw as many shoes as you can. Categorize the shoes into: 1.texture 2. function
3. choose a 3rd category
Fluency
Flexibility/Analysis
Discuss the *PMI points of being assigned to a group or activity that you would not have chosen.
*PMI/Yellow, Black Hat
Thinking / List or draw 5or more sports you like. Circle your favorite and tell why it’s your favorite.
Fluency/Evaluation / If you were a coachwhat three consequences would you use to handle anathlete who didn’t follow the rules?
Rules/Point of View / Brainstorm and list 5 of your favorite tastes. Then rank in order from least favorite to most favorite.
Fluency/Evaluation
Fluency / People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway.
Paradox

**SCAMPER= Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Minimize/Maximize, Put to another use, Eliminate, Rearrange, Reverse