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It's Not a Box

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2016 Summer Program

Time Travel is common...in books and movies. Time Travel adds twists and surprises to stories. Time travel is definitely powered more by imagination than by science. This is a class in imagination.

Consider some of the great time travellers from Jules Verne – to Dr Who – Mr Peabody and Sherman – or Calvin & Hobbs. Convert a box into a time machine with lights, dials, levers and lots of imagination. Then do what time travellers do: jump to the past or future and solve problems creatively. Think outside the box.

~ Go back,(create) and retrieve a baby dinosaur or another now extnct animal.
~ (Create and) recover one of the 8 lost Faberge Eggs(1888-1916) or King John’s Crown (1216).
~ A Daleck from just about any time.
~ A bird sculpture from the Great Zimbabwe (1016).
~ The small Horse that Mr. Peabody left in Troy (1216 bce)

And other treasures you will just have to invent because you never know where a Time Machine will take you.

Adapted from Antoinette Poris’ It’s Not a Box ©2007: a strategy for inventing anything from a box and imagination.


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