Week II. Brainstorm

This week, help your students identify food-related issues that they can work on to benefit their community.

The videos below may help them generate ideas during the brainstorming process.

Featured resource:

A Better Way to Brainstorm: How to Get Students to Generate Original Ideas

Video—Beginner–In this video, YouTube teacher John Spencer describes how brainstorming can lead to groupthink (making decisions in a way that prevents unique viewpoints and, therefore, creativity). Then, he describes the brainstorming process he uses in his class to avoid it. (142 minutes)