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Creativity

 I watched and was inspired the other day by The Creative Brain on Netflix. There were so many tidbits on how to innovate and how all people can be creators. As a science teacher, I have been trying to encourage my students to create new inventions. Some takeaways I have to share with you are:

1. Create journals full of pictures and lists of things you come across every day. This could be done in a classroom between students to inspire one another or lists of phenomena.

2. Create a hybrid. Why not mesh two existing designs together to see what happens?

3. Make a twist. We mistakenly think that things have to be brand new to be inventive. Take an existing invention and add a slight twist to it.


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