Innovation resource pack - Design Museum

AFreefor activities 1–2Innovationyour minds and work together to define the conceptActivity 1 – Keeping an open mindYou can solve these brain teasers by asking the teacherquestions but the answers will be yes or no only.➜1. A man is approaching the centreof a field. He knows that when hegets there he will die. Why?2. Romeo and Juliet are lying deadon the floor. The room is emptyexcept for a pool of water andsome broken glass. How didthey die?3. If a clock takes two seconds tostrike 2 o'clock, how long will ittake to strike 3 o'clock?• • •• • •• ••Join the dotsConnect all nine dots with fourstraight lines. Go through each dotonly once. Do not lift your pencilfrom the paper.Clean cutCut the pie into eight pieces usingonly three cuts.MatchlessTake away three matches to leavethree squares.Square bashingHow many squares do you see?Activity 2 – Working togetherMost of us have to work with others to solve problems.Like the previous activity, this is more about how youwork than what you do. It works best in groups of threeor four. Allow about 20 minutes for each task.Problem 1Using one piece of A4 thin card,build the tallest free-standing toweryou can. It must stand up on itsown!You will need ...Scissors, card, sketching paper andpencils. No sticky tape allowed!Problem 2Build the longest cantilever beam youcan, using tape instead of the weightand spaghetti instead of wood.You will need ...Spaghetti, masking tape,sketching paper and pencils.CantileverbeamProblem 3Make a structure to hold a housebrick as high as possible above thetable.You will need ...Four sheets of tabloid newspaper, four100mm lengths of sticky tape, scissors,brick, sketching paper and pencils.Problem 4Make a container to protect anegg which will be dropped from aheight of 6ft.You will need ...One sheet of A4 paper, one thinpolythene sandwich bag, an egg, cottonthread, sticky tape, scissors, sketchingpaper and pencils.