girlCreative Thinking Contract
Chocolate Cookies Thinker's Keys
designed by Denise Tarlinton: http://www.kurwongbss.qld.edu.au/thinking/Think%20Keys/keys.htm
Adapted without permission by A.J. Berghuis

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This contract contains the activities listed below. Keep track of the activities you have completed by ticking each activity off as you go.

You must do 10 of the listed activities.
»B.A.R. Key »VARIATIONS Key »DIFFERENT USES Key
»QUESTIONS Key »INTERPRETATIONS Key »COMBINATION Key
»WHAT IF Key »PICTURE Key »COMMONALITY Key
»FORCED RELATIONSHIPS Key »BRAIN STORMING Key »ALPHABET Key
»BLACK HAT »CONSTRUCTION Key »ALTERNATIVE Key
»RIDICULOUS Key »REVERSE LISTING Key »INVENTIONS Key
  Include your self-assessment score at the end of your contract work.

B.A.R. KEY

B.A.R. a chocolate chip cookie.

B - Make one part bigger
A - Add something extra
R - Replace one part with something else.

Draw your new design and include appropriate explanations/descriptions.

VARIATIONS KEY

How many ways can you eat a chocolate chip cookie.

Write and/or draw (and label/caption) up to twenty quality ideas.

DIFFERENT USES KEY

List and explain between 5 and 10 different uses for an empty family-sized chocolate chip cookie packet.

You might like to draw and label/caption some ideas.

QUESTIONS KEY

Write between 5 and 10 quality questions to which chocolate chip cookies or chocolate chip cookie is the answer.

INTERPRETATIONS KEY

A chocolate chip cookie is rolling down a hill.

Draw a picture and give between 5 and 10 reasons for this.

COMBINATIONS KEY

List the attributes of a chocolate chip cookie and a baseball cap, then combine the attributes [Help] into a single object. Try to come up with more than one idea.

Draw and describe your ideas.

WHAT IF KEY

What if chocloate chips were healthy for you??

PICTURE KEY

Finish the picture, colour and describe it below.

Your idea must relate to a chocolate chip cookie.

picture key
COMMONALITY KEY

This is all about thinking of ways different things have some aspects in common.

List common points between a chocolate chip cookie and a television.

FORCED RELATIONSHIPS KEY

You need to capture a tiger in the jungles of Khao Yai with a chocolate chip cookie, a rubber band, and a piece of rope. You cannot use any object in the way they were intended to be used!

Draw a diagram and write a description/explanation to clearly illustrate your ideas.

BRAINSTORMING KEY

Brainstorm a list of possible solutions to this situation: There are no more chocolate chip cookies in the world

ALPHABET KEY

List foods or indregients closely related to chocolate chip cookies that you know or can research the names of for each letter of the alphabet:
ABCD
EFGH
IJKL
MNOP
QRST
UVWX
YZ

BLACK HAT

When we wear our BLACK HAT we are thinking of the PROBLEMS and NEGATIVE POINTS.

List at least 5 disadvantages (BLACK HAT POINTS) of chocolate chip cookies and think of ways to eliminate or correct these disadvantages.

CONSTRUCTION KEY

Use materials you can find at home to build a structure designed to protect the chocolate chip cookie from the Cookie Monster!

INVENTIONS KEY

Design a model of a machine which packages chocolate chip cookies. Invent a name for it, draw it, and give notes for each stage of the packaging process.

RIDICULOUS KEY

People should be paid in chocolate chip cookies.

Be creative and think of arguments to support this statement.

REVERSE LISTING KEY

List between 10 and 20 places you couldn't eat a chocolate chip cookie.

ALTERNATIVE KEY

Work out at least three ways to make a chocolate chip cookie without the ready-made Chocolate Chips.

This assignment is based on the work of Tony Ryan during the 1980s and his so-called Thinker's Keys. To find out more, please click here.

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