Picture Walk

Picture Walk

The aim is to generate solutions from inspirational pictures.

1. The teacher places picture cards on the floor around the room.
2. The students are told to find one person that is about the same height as them within their group.
3. The students walk around the room and look at the pictures together and identify solutions to the challenge that are generated from reviewing each picture. They should take a note of all their solutions on post-its.  The students should do this for all the pictures.
4. The students should place all their post-its on the whiteboard.
5. The teacher rings a bell to end the activity.
6. The students then review all the post-its on the whiteboard and select the most appropriate solutions.

The goal is to challenge the students to develop new ideas using ‘immediate’ motivation and inspiration from pictures. The pictures should surprise the students as this will hopefully challenge their usual patterns and will then impulsively accept the first thought(s) that come to mind. This will develop a link between this/these thought(s) and the challenge.
Dialoogle picture cards could be used or some pictures from the computer could be printed and laminated https://dialoogle.com/da/
The activity could be done using online tools such as Padlet, virtual whiteboard and breakout rooms in Teams/Zoom. If working online, click the link to find random pictures to ideate from: https://randomwordgenerator.com/picture.php