SCAMPER
It is necessary to take a prepared template and a pencil. Perform Scamper questions on a given subject: replace, combine, adapt/adopt, modify, use for other purposes, eliminate, rearrange. Upon completion, evaluate the received ideas.
Watch a video about the application of the SCAMPER technique on a well-known product:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8w0rJhztJ4
List of required equipment
template for Scamper and pen
What can I learn from this? (outcomes)
ingenuity and innovation in solving problems.
develop a creative way of thinking and creative thinking.
think outside the box.
evaluate the ideas of other participants.
develop collaborative learning and teamwork.
How can I do this activity? Steps
Take the template and pencil and ask Scamper questions for the product/item received:
- What can I SUBSTITUTE for something else? For example, changing the composition, packaging, even the name
- How can I COMBINE some elements? For example, Smarties with ice cream, Smarties party cookies...
- What can I ADOPT from existing ideas/objects? For example, Easter chicks = minnie smarties.
- How can I MODIFY, MAGNIFY or MINIFY my object of observation? For example, Mini/Maxi Smarties...
- How can I PUT to other use, use my product for purposes other than one intended? For example, Smarties mini eggs....
- What can ELIMINATE, remove, get rid of a quality, part or a whole of the way I work?
- What can I REARRANGE in my method?
Compare the obtained results with other participants.
Evaluate the obtained results.
Reflection tips
read all written ideas
choose the best, most innovative idea
To think:
• Which of the above ideas represents a sustainable solution?
• Can any of them be used to create a new product or improve an existing one?
Annexes
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11ewfgwsXR3xIUIzAsmFCmiONkWje18j2/view?usp=drive_link