Invention Activities

Sticky Note Activity : Brainstorm or take notes on sticky notes. Post sticky notes on poster board, grouping and regrouping to identify connections and possible organizations.

Ideas from A Meeting of Minds (p. 50):

1. • Open-ended strategies:
     • Brainstorming
     • Sketching with visual clues/organizers
     • Talking with others

1. • Systematic strategies:
     • Asking questions
     • Testing the opposition’s perspective
     • Collecting information from multiple sources (archival and field)

Ideas from University of Texas, Substantial Writing Component Resources

1. • Listing
   • Mapping (See a range of examples at http://classes.aces.uiuc.edu/ACES100/Mind/c-m4.html)
   • Diagrams

Tagmemics

• Contrast: How the subject resembles or differs from other items in its class
• Variation: How much and in what ways the subject could change without losing its essential characteristics
• Distribution: How often and in what places the subject can be observed
• Particle: Distinct features of the subject
• Wave: How the subject changes over time
• Field: Considers the different parts of the subject and how they interact as parts of a whole

Resources

• Limited Diagram functions in MS Word
  (Insert à Diagram à Choice of Organizational Chart, Circle Diagram, Radial Diagram, Pyramid Diagram, Venn Diagram, or Target Diagram)
• Extensive options in MatchWare OpenMind

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