Provide hands-on activities for practice and mastery. Check for understanding of concepts and skills by using relevant standard materials, i.e. worksheets, text problems, workbooks, teacher prepared exercises, etc.

Combine attributes in new ways, analyze outcomes from other points of view.

Objective: To provide practice in analyzing objects so that specific attributes can be improved upon. To provide practice in looking at existing things in new ways.

Activity: Application of Alex Osborn's SCAMPER strategy as various classroom objects are minified, maximized, etc. Note attributes of objects so that they can be combined in new ways. In groups of four, students take ordinary objects, analyze what is the thing they find the most difficult about it, and then design an improvement, such as a tape dispenser that dispenses pieces of tape in exact lengths as programmed by a key pad. Analyze invention, such as moving belt to load the school bus. List people that might be affected. Construct a consequences wheel that projects possible consequences from all points of view.

Assessment: Student ability to work in groups and complete activities.