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Lateral thinking exercise

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:36

Karen Gray

By Karen Gray

One of my favourite classroom exercises is to hand out items from my facilitator’s kit (box of crayons, stapler, whistle etc) and to ask learners to find a number of ways that that item is like the topic under discussion.

Hand your learners a box of crayons and ask them to find as many ways as possible that it is like a lesson. The answers are always insightful and diverse and provide an interesting perspective of the topic – for example:

Here are a few more items that you can suggest to your learners to encourage them to make links to the topic you are teaching:

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