Session 9 - Belmont City College - Year 9 - Jodie Davidson and Fiona Ball

Groups of 6

1. You will each be given a number between 1 and 4 (for 24 students) or 1 and 5 (for 25-30 students)

2. Without using your hands or voices, find your group and sit together

3. Create a 6 word environmental statement to bring awareness to human impact on biomes

4. Each person must say one word

5. You have 3 minutes

1. Split your groups into 3 people (speaker 1,3,5 and 2,4,6)

2. Discuss in your group ways to feed the world population as it increases and is unable to keep up with the current food sources. Come up with 3 options - 3 minutes

3. Create an elevator/sales pitch for something we don’t currently consume as food (a non food item). 

• Why should we consume this as food

• Benefits to humans

• Benefits to the environment

• How is a solution to reducing human impact on the planet?

1. Each person must present part of the pitch

Each group has a challenge

1. Use a post it note throughout the session to provide a specific example of how your group could increase their use of each creative habit

2. One habit per post it. Refrain from copying examples directly from the poster. 

Successes

• Removing the option of getting into groups without hands or mouths resulting in lots of foot stamping

• While I was setting up, Fiona had them get themselves in order of age without words and also put them into groups using the counting method for the first time

• We are having to doing much less administration and thinking with

• The time restriction on activities is enabling them to think quickly and be more direct and concise in their responses.

• Transition from Creative to Teacher

• Improving at listening to each other when they are presenting

Challenges

• Putting them into groups of the correct number quickly proved very challenging for both Fiona and myself but it also gave us lots of practice, usually at getting it wrong! It also meant that the groups were totally random and ended up being made up of non friendship groups. 

Students are extremely good now at getting into groups without worrying about who they are with. They are less worried about sharing ideas with the whole class. Today, every person provided an answer and they also all stood up (in their elevator) to present their pitch. Their creative thinking (imagination) is increasing and we are now pushing the critical thinking of ideas as they begin to stretch beyond the first response, implementing persistence and being inquisitive. They are also responding to this in their reflections which is increasing awareness of the creative habits and how they are being utilised both individually and in groups. We particularly liked their ideas today for how they could continue to feed the increasing population including genetically engineering cows to be 50% bigger, cannibalism, cutting down serving sizes, charging a tax on leftovers and developing a machine to preserve food and make food last longer 

‘Eat plastic as we already have microplastics in the body, it will reduce pollution and provide a Barbie doll look’ … student group response