Creative & Critical Thinking-The Hare and The Tortoise

Using the 6 Thinking Hats I developed the following questions for the tortoise and the hare...

White Hat-How long was the race in feet, miles, and meters? How was the course selected? What were the weather conditions during the race?

Red Hat- Tortoise at the beginning of the race did you have any idea that you would beat the hare? Do you believe that you "out-smarted" or "out performed" the Hare? What lesson did you learn from losing to the Tortoise?

Black Hat-What advice would you give to other Hares and/or Tortoises? How would you approach this same situation now?

Yellow Hat-Hare, what good can you find in your loss to Tortoise? Hare were you able to demonstrate good sportsmanship after losing?

Green Hat- Would the outcome of the race be different had it been a triathlon? If Hare didn't talk during the race would he had won? Was it the head start or the BIG head that lead to Tortoise being the winner?

Blue Hat-Describe what went wrong or right for each other. What would you say is the most valuable lesson learned from this experience?

Activity #5-Using Osborn's "73 idea-spurring questions

Object:

remote control

(the object that I am forever losing)

Ideas for Improvement:

1. Put to other uses?
Can be used to crush small bugs and spiders :)

2.What else is this like?
A Wii controller without the arm bracelet.

3.Modify?
I would change it to a bright neon color so that I can find it when it often goes missing.

4.What to add?
I would add a musical sensor that will "beep" or "ring" when trying to locate it.

5.Minify?
There are TOO many buttons!!!

6.Minify?
I definately wouldn't make it smaller because I will never be able to find it!

7.Other power?
I would use it to control my 2 most important items in my house: coffee pot and alarm clock.

8.Rearrange?
I would put the numeral buttons on top and the vloume and channel buttons would be the largest buttons on the remote.

9.Reverse?
Ummmmmmmmm...

10.Combine?
I don't have this problem, but many people have several remotes for all of their gadgets. I would make one universal remote for all gadgets (tv, radio, ipod, surround sound, dvd player, cd player, etc)

11.Exaggerate?
The mute button on the remote control would have the ability to mute adults, children, and my neighbor's dog at the push of a button.