Each short Wednesday afternoon, we have a school-wide Inspire and Create (C&I) event. Students are in multi-grade (K-9) house groups and are given engaging tasks that require collaboration and the use of creative problem solving skills.
Each session begins with students practicing their divergent thinking skills by generating as many responses as possible to a statement. This week’s statement was “_________ changes ________ to __________” (for example “Heat turns ice into water.”
House groups earn points based on the number ideas they can generate within a time-frame.
After the war-up activity, students work on a larger, more challenging task. This month’s C & I task was to use the material’s given to create something that could protect an egg breaking after being hit with a softball. There were many creative solutions, but only a few protectors could withstand the brute force of a falling softball!
In the photo below, students anxiously wait to see if the softball dropped through the tube would crush the egg (below the tube) that is protected by the egg protector.
