LOGO Unit 18 Inventions

Company Logo Task1 Brain storm How to divide 13 oranges between 9 children fairly? Make orange juice

Company Logo What can you imagine when seeing this round? round

Company Logo How do you connect all the dots with only four straight lines?

Company Logo Task2 Prediction

Company Logo Task3 Skimming  Read the text to find out the main idea. The text describes the thinking strategies that creative thinkers use and explains how these strategies work.

Company Logo Task4 Scanning Think outside the box Take another look at it Make connectionsKeep trying Strategies

Company Logo Bionics( 仿生学 ) is a science based on biological behavior that can be applied to machine designs and human development.

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Company Logo Making connection is to combine new thoughts and ideas with what we already know.

Company Logo  How do you make connections? Think of new applications and solutions Try to connect new and old ideas in as many different ways as possible; Compare and connect ideas and objects in new ways;

Company Logo  Read paragraph 5 and then discuss with your partner. How do you understand “Good ideas are no accident”? Give some examples.

Company Logo Examples  Mozart wrote more than 600 pieces of music.  Thomas Edison made a rule saying that he had to make an invention every ten days.  Although disabled, Stephen Hawing had always been kept doing his scientific research.  Yuan Longping has been keeping improving rice to contribute to agriculture.

Company Logo New What the author wants to emphasize is that_________. Creativity has much to do with new ideas. ideas/thought ways/solutions intentions possibilities applications Task5

Company Logo  How do you really understand the title? If we want to be creative, we should follow these rules---think outside the box, take another look at it, make connections and keep trying. These rules also work when we solve a problem.

Company Logo  Would you give another title for the text? Creativity Great thinkers How to solve problems Connections

Company Logo Task6 Problem solving-- Drop an egg from a height of 15 meters, not to break it.

Company Logo  Creativity is the place where no one else has ever been.  You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, taking risks and by keeping on trying.  What you will discover will be wonderful--- yourself.

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Company Logo  Read the second paragraph to fill in the chart. What Why How It is to try new ways to solve a problem. What we know and what we have learnt may limit our thinking. Break away from old thought patters and explore new possibilities Rephrase a problem to allow for creative solutions; Try “impossible” or “crazy” solutions; Failure also helps move towards solutions;

Company Logo  What does “box” refer to? A. impossible or crazy B. a complete answer C. the old thought patterns D. partial solutions and failures

Company Logo Get out of your box!

Company Logo 1.Who never goes to see a doctor, even when he is ill ? A blind man. 2. Why can a frog jump higher than a tree? A tree can’t jump. 3. It is leaking( 漏水 ) everywhere in the office on a rainy day, why nobody has got wet? Nobody is in. 4. Mike’s father is a policeman. Why did Mike recognize him among his workmates though they were all in uniform? The workmates are policewomen.

Company Logo  Read the 3rd paragraph and find out an expression mentioned in this paragraph that can take the place of this subtitle.  How do you take another look at it? A change in perception Try different attempts even false starts to understanding. Looking in as many ways as possible; From invisible to visible;

Company Logo A romantic story from the rubbish

Company Logo Are the eyes of the same height? Yes!

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