Pass it On

Pass it On

The aim is for the students to undertake idea generation by building upon others’ ideas.

1. All group members write down their ideas for the solution to the challenge on their individual notebooks.
2. The teacher asks them to pass their notebook to their neighbour sitting on their right.
3. The students add to their neighbour’s notebook to develop the ideas that are listed.
4. The notebook should then be passed to the neighbour on the right.
5. The notebook should be passed to all group members until the notebooks are returned to their original owners.
6. The teacher asks each student to read out their original idea and the additions which the other students have added.
7. When all the students have done this all of the ideas are pooled and retained for future use for selecting ideas.

The groups should have 3-5 members each but you can include as many as 40 participants.
The activity could be done using online tools such as Padlet, virtual whiteboard and breakout rooms in Teams/Zoom.