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Creative Challenges

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Amber Bridge

Grant Wood AEA

Digital Learning Consultant

abridge@gwaea.org

Gina Rogers

Grant Wood AEA

Digital Learning Consultant

grogers@gwaea.org

Daniel Lang

Vernon Middle School

Instructional Coach

dlang@marion-isd.org

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Why Creative Challenges?

Promote empathy, deeper understanding, and more complex understanding of a topic.
Engage students in different way.
Promote creativity and creative problem solving.

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This sounds like fluff!

How does it connect to my standards?

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Standards Connections

Iowa Core Anchor Standard 3:

Analyze how and why characters develop and interact over time.

Connection:

Understanding character development means understanding their motivations and needs. Designing for characters requires students to know what motivates a character and what that character needs.

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🔗Character Cards

Hungry Caterpillar
Cat in the Hat
Alexander
Pete the Cat

Printable Google Drive File

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Task:

Pick one character. Review the synopsis of their story. Pay attention to what appears to be the character’s problem. Create something that would be useful to the character in helping them solve their problem.

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Review all ideas: 4 Categories Method

Most Rational

Most Delightful

Long Shot

Darling

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“Rapid Prototyping is an iterative process used to visualize what a design will look like in order to get feedback and validation from users, stakeholders, developers, and designers.”

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-A Beginner’s Guide to Rapid Prototyping

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I Like, I Wish, I Wonder

Create 3 statements with these sentence starters:

I like… The I-LIKE gives the individual or team a chance to highlight what is seen as a strength in a piece of work. This sets a positive tone for the interaction and focuses on the good.

I wish… The I-WISH reveals areas that could be improved. I usually do not allow more than one I WISH so that students focus on the big ideas and not on details.

I wonder… The I-WONDER is the place to ask clarifying questions and offer specific solutions to the stated I-Wish.

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Subject Area Reflections: Language Arts

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Subject Area Reflections: Math

Volume	Take out one sentence of the story problem to get students to think.

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Subject Area Reflections: Science

Propose experiment and then brainstorm what a scientist might do (solutioning)

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Subject Area Reflections: Social Studies

Solve problems for historical characters

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Subject Area Reflections