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PREP Teaching GuideChapter 8 Activity: De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats

De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats is a very effective tool for deciding which products a PREP venture will produce for sale at market.

Students should work in their teams and discuss their idea using the Template: Six Thinking Hats. In some cases, students may be trying to decide between two or more ideas, and this may help them to make that decision.

You can find more information about the Six Thinking Hats on the de Bono for Schools website (www.debonoforschools.com/asp/six_hats.asp)

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PREP Teaching GuideChapter 8 Activity: De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats

Six Thinking Hats – Deciding on your ventures

Team Name:

What suggestions and ideas do we have?

What are the key facts?

What are the good things about it?

How do we feel about it?

What things will we need to think about?

What problems might we have?

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PREP Teaching GuideChapter 8 Activity: De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats

Six Thinking Hats – Deciding on your ventures

Team Name: Bubble Wand Ventures

What suggestions and ideas do we have?

Use wire to shape the wands into different shapes

We could add beads to the handles to make them look cool

We could have buckets of bubble mixture free at our stall to help sell our wands.

What are the key facts?

We will need wire, beads and pliers.

We can make lots quickly.

We know everyone will buy our product.

What are the good things about it?

Everyone loves bubbles.

We could easily make these as we have found some YouTube clips to help us.

How do we feel about it?

We think the idea is cool and we would love to do this product.

It will be a popular idea for both business workers and customers.

What things will we need to think about?

We will need to think about how much wire we need for each one.

Also we will need to test out each design to make sure it works.

What problems might we have?

Cutting the wire might be tricky.

Not all shapes will guarantee bubbles.

Customers might complain if our designs don’t work.

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