• use old ideas to create new ones
• generalize from given facts
• relate knowledge from several areas
• predict, draw conclusions

• adapt
• anticipate
• build
• categorize
• change
• choose
• collaborate
• combine
• communicate
• compare
• compile
• compose
• contrast
• construct
• create

• delete
• design
• develop
• devise
• discuss
• elaborate
• estimate
• express
• facilitate
• formulate
• generate
• imagine
• improve
• incorporate

• individualize
• initiate
• integrate
• intervene
• invent
• make up
• maximize
• minimize
• model
• modify
• negotiate
• originate
• plan
• predict

• progress
• propose
• rearrange
• reconstruct
• reinforce
• reorganize
• revise
• solve
• structure
• substitute
• suppose
• test
• theorize
• validate

• What changes would you make to solve...?
• How would you improve...?
• What would happen if...?
• Can you elaborate on the reason...?
• Can you propose an alternative...?
• Can you invent...?
• How would you adapt _____ to create a different...?
• How could you change (modify) the plot (plan)...?
• What could be done to minimize (maximize)...?
• What way would you design...?
• What could be combined to improve (change)...?
• Suppose you could _____ what would you do...?
• How would you test...?
• Can you formulate a theory for...?
• Can you predict the outcome if...?
• How would you estimate the results for...?
• What facts can you compile...?
• Can you construct a model that would change...?
• Can you think of an original way for the...?

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• Invent a machine to do a specific task.
• Design a building to house your study.
• Create a new product. Give it a name and plan a marketing campaign.
• Write about your feelings in relation to...
• Write a TV show, play, puppet show, role play, song or pantomime about...?
• Design a record, book, or magazine cover for...?
• Make up a new language code and write material suing it.
• Sell an idea.
• Devise a way to...
• Compose a rhythm or put new words to a known melody.

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