LEGO® Creativity!
Use LEGO® elements to explore how to be creative.

Objective
Students will participate in a series of exercises that stimulate creative thinking.

Key Vocabulary

Arrangement
Assemblage Sculpture
Drawing
Leonardo Da Vinci

Materials
Access to a variety of LEGO® elements (such as an AOE Lab).


Discussion
The instructor will lead a discussion about concerning the nature of creativity. There are many situations that call for creative solutions to a wide variety of problems and crisis.
Ask students to define "creativity" and record the answers on a white board.

"To be creative is to be able to percieve and recognize the world around us, to understand what we need or wish to do in response to it and to set about changing it. To be creative is to find a way, a thought, an expression, a human manifestation no one else has found and to bring newly discovered possibilities into reality.".
-Charles "Chic" Thomson."What a Great Idea", 1992.

Ask students to identify factors that encourage creativity. Not responding to peer pressure, keeping track of what the problem really is, and having lots of ways of representing things are three excellent rules of thumb.

The instructor may wish to use various great innovators as models of people who kept themselves creative. Richard Feynman is one great example, Leonardo Da Vinci is another. The instructor will identify that most creativity exercises seek to open doors to new perspectives, and thus free the imagination, through different means.