These choice activities are designed to help you develop your creative problem solving solving orDivergent Thinking Skills. (Flexibility, Fluency, Elaboration & Originality) Lets Review: Flexibility is looking a problem or situation from different points of view. Imagining how the problem would look from a different physical, personal or mental point-of-view. Using empathy to think about how different people or animals might view the same situation or problem is also a great way to think about it. Flexibility is also use when you look at what someone else has created as a solution and you modify it to fit your exact needs. Fluency is when you try to come up with many different ideas; thinking from each flexible point of view. In general it's coming up with a whole lot of ideas. This is the 'brainstorming' part; give yourself more time than you think you need. Keep trying when the ideas don't come easily. When you use perseverance of thought, and thinking and go beyond the first burst of ideas that's when ... original and unique ideas come. Elaboration is adding details. Building up the 'bare bones' of your idea to 'flesh it out'; give it some yummy juicy meat! By adding details you are able to communicate your ideas to others very clearly. They don't have to guess at what you mean. Elaboration includes written descriptions, directions and labels identifying parts, sketches of an item from different angles and 3-D physical models. Originality - A unique, one-of-a-kind solution to the situation or problem. Try to think of something no one else would. (At least your own age.)