Junior+Thinkers+2013

Edward de Bono invented the six thinking hats. He said, “Instead of trying to do everything at once, we can learn to handle different aspects of thinking one at a time. In the end, these different aspects come together to give full-colour thinking, like a r a i n b o w.”

**__We used the Six Thinking Hats to learn about how seeds travel.__**

**We used the white hat** to talk, write and draw what we knew about how seeds travel.

We used magnifying glasses to look at plant seeds.

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**We used the red hat** and words to show how we felt about the 5 ways that plant seeds travel.



We used the yellow hat to work out the benefits or good points for seeds that travel. They get sunlight, nutrients, water and space to grow.

**We used the black hat** to work out the dangers, what could go wrong for seeds as they travel. • Where they land might not have enough light or nutrients. • There might be lots of plants already. • It might be too dry or too wet.  • They might die if it is too hot or too cold or if it takes too long before a gardener plants them.

**We used the blue hat** to put the steps in order for the life cycle of a seed.

**We used the green hat to choose…** **Either... You are the creator of a new seed. How will it travel?** **Or... Seeds are like people when they travel because...** **J** **We had some very creative new ideas!** **J**

**__We used the Six Thinking Hats to learn about how people travel in transport.__** **We used the white hat** to talk, write and draw types of transport we know. Then we compared the way that people travel with the 5 ways that seeds travel. We had lots of good ideas.



**We used the red hat** and our faces, not words, to show how we felt about some ways that people travel. You should have seen our faces!

We used the yellow hat to work out the benefits or good points for riding a bike with an umbrella. We had SO many ideas.

**We used the black hat** to work out the dangers and what could go wrong if cars had square wheels. We thought it would be very bumpy!

**We used the blue hat** to follow the steps in order to make a helicopter rotor. We loved the way they flew!

**We looked the designs drawn by Leonardo da Vinci and John Britten. They both used the green hat to try new ideas about how people can travel.** **Then we put on the green thinking hat and made our own designs and prototypes for how people could travel. We remembered the 5 ways that seeds travel and that helped us have some super ideas.** **Check out our inventions here. We might patent ideas so that we get the money if somebody else wants to copy us.** media type="file" key="Central GATE Junior Thinkers.mov"media type="file" key="WestGATE Junior Thinkers.mov"

We finished our time together with something that Albert Einstein said. We agreed all the hats are useful and we need them all. :-) Tools for Thinking open up our imaginations. :-)
 * “Imagination is more important than knowledge. **
 * Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” **