Tips and Tricks for dealing with challenges

  • Challenge: Students choose the first obvious idea.
    Tip: Require three alternatives before selecting. Use “What if…?” twists.
  • Challenge: Fear of being wrong or silly.
    Tip: Encourage “wild ideas welcome”. Teacher models a humorous invention.
  • Challenge: Uneven participation in pairs.
    Tip: Assign rotating roles (drawer, idea generator, explainer). “Idea ping-pong” — alternate phrases.
  • Challenge: Difficulty expressing the idea clearly.
    Tip: Provide simple sentence frames.  Students act out what the invention does.