1. How to Select an Underlying Problem Future Problem Solving Training

2. Choose the Challenge You Like Best In order to come up with solutions to your problem, you must first pick one Challenge to work on. Let start with the Ant and the Grasshopper

3. 13. How can we get the grasshopper to find winter food? You must state the Challenge you picked in a very specific way. You will need to refer to page 10 of your FPS Student Guide Workbook for more detailed instructions.

4. This is the Challenge I Choose: The Challenge: 13. How can we get the grasshopper to find winter food? Condition Phrase: Stem:KVP:Purpose:

5. The Condition Phrase The Condition Phrase The Challenge: 13. How can we get the grasshopper to find winter food? Condition Phrase: Because winter is coming and the grasshopper didnt store food… Stem:KVP:Purpose:

6. The Stem The Challenge: 13. How can we get the grasshopper to find winter food? Condition Phrase: Because winter is coming and the grasshopper didnt store food… Stem: How might we… KVP:Purpose: So that ______?

7. The Key Verb Phrase (KVP) The Challenge: 13. How can we get the grasshoppe r to find winter food? Condition Phrase: Because winter is coming and the grasshopper didnt store food… Stem: How might we… KVP: Teach the grasshopper to find winter food… Purpose: So that ______?

8. Purpose Purpose The Challenge: 13. How can we get the grasshopper to find winter food? Condition Phrase: Because winter is coming and the grasshopper didnt store food… Stem: How might we… KVP: Teach the grasshopper to find winter food… Purpose: So that he wont starve to death.

9. Future Scene Parameters (FSP) The Challenge: 13. How can we get the grasshopper to find winter food? Condition Phrase: Because winter is coming and the grasshopper didnt store food… Stem: How might we… How might we…KVP: Teach the grasshopper to find winter food… Purpose: So that he wont starve to death. FSP: Time: Winter of 2008 Place: Idaho Topic: Saving Grasshoppers

10. Lets try another one! For the past few years, we have not had much water for our crops. I thought one challenge that might come from that situation could be… How can yards without water be pleasant to look at?

11. The Condition Phrase The Condition Phrase Because there are No Out-Doors Watering laws…

12. The Stem how might we… how might we…

13. The Key Verb Phrase (KVP) Create beautiful yards without water…

14. The Purpose so people will want to live…

15. Future Scene Parameters (FSP) … in Idaho, with less water, by the year 2015?

16. The Underlying Problem: Condition Phrase:Because there are No Out-Doors Watering laws… Stem: how might we… KVP: Create beautiful yards without water… Purpose: so people will want to live… FSP: …in Idaho, with less water, by the year 2015?

17. The Underlying Problem: Because there are No Out-Doors Watering laws, how might we create beautiful yards without water so people will want to live in Idaho, with less water, by the year 2015?

18. Keep Practicing! Pick four challenges, from any of the previous assignments, to turn into an Underlying Problem. You may want to put the FSP in a separate sentence. The Challenge Condition Phrase StemKVPPurpose #1 Because_____ _________... How might we… So__________ ___________? #2 Because_____ _________... How might we… So__________ ___________? #3 Because_____ _________... How might we… So__________ ___________? #4 Because_____ _________... How might we… So__________ ___________?

19. You are on your way! You have conquered the first and second steps of FPS. Lets see how you do with creating solutions.