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Slide 1: Lateral Thinking Based on work by Edward de Bono
Slide 2: Lateral thinking as opposed to vertical thinking  Vertical Thinking    Lateral Thinking           selecting idea is goal focuses on right or wrong sequential analytical excludes irrelevant material tries to finalize generating ideas is goal doesn’t worry about right or wrong jumps around provocative welcomes irrelevant material tries to expand possibilities
Slide 3: A lateral thinking puzzle   The teacher gave Ben and Jerry a written test. Ben read the test, then folded his arms and answered none of the questions. Jerry carefully wrote good answers to the questions. When the time was up, Ben handed in a blank sheet and Jerry handed in his work. The teacher gave Ben an A and Jerry C. WHY????
Slide 4: Reversal Method   Up is down Down is up
Slide 5: Random Word List     Weed Rust Poor Hole     Magnify Foam Vacuum Diagonal
Slide 6: Let’s Do Some Brain Teasers  A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third if full of lions who haven’t eaten in a year. Which room is safest for him?
Slide 7: More Brain Teasers  Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Saturday?
Slide 8: Teaser  What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
Slide 9: Visual Puzzles Sand
Slide 10: Puzzle HE’S/HIMSELF
Slide 11: Puzzle CYCLE CYCLE CYCLE
Slide 12: Last Brain Teaser for Today  This is an unusual paragraph. I’m curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It IS unusual though. Study it, think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might just find out.
Slide 13: The Deadly Block of Wood   A man lies dead inside a trailer. He has shot himself. Close by him is a block of wood. It is a plain piece of wood about two feet long by one inch wide. The wood carries no writing or other markings and yet, it is fair to say that the sight of this piece of wood on this day caused the man to commit suicide. WHY!!!!!!
Slide 14: Rube Goldberg Design Get with your group for the Rube Goldberg Design.  Come up with two ideas of how to use each word in the random word list in your design. 
Slide 15: Transportation for Lateralia  There are four main towns in Lateralia. We will call them A,B,C, and D. They lie at the corners of a ten mile square. In order to improve communications between the towns the Department of Transportation has decided to build a new road linking all four towns together. Because they had very little money it was decided that the new road system should be as short as possible and still allow access from any one town to any other. Generate as many paths as possible.
Slide 16: Transportation for Lateralia A B C D