Creativity Step

Creativity: The use of imagination and the generation of new ideas.

Step 2: I imagine different situations and can bring them to life in different ways.

Outcomes

To achieve Step 2, learners will show that they can bring what they imagine to life in different ways, including through role play or acting out their ideas, and through pictures or diagrams.

Learners need to be able to:

Understand different methods to communicate what we imagine
Share what they imagine through an appropriate way of communicating ideas (acting it out or drawing pictures or diagrams)

Introduction

Some of the things we imagine are useful to share with the world. One method of doing this is through acting it out or by using role-play. Acting or role play is helpful when you are trying to share a conversation or behaviour with someone else and for them to join you in being part of an imaginary world.
For example, all drama – whether in films, in theatres or on video clips – comes from imagination and then it is made real by being acted out to you.

Skill Starter

Show and Tell

Use expressions and gestures to recount a familiar sports story, i.e. winning 100m final, playing in your first match or going rock-climbing. In groups of 3 or 4, ask learners to show how they would feel if they were [insert example], using…

Facial expressions
Whole-body movement
One hand

Optional: Split half of the groups into acting out feelings with their whole body and split the other half into expressing feelings with their faces. Which group is able to guess the answers the quickest? Which method was easiest?

At the end, lead a reflection to consider the challenges of sharing what we imagine in this way. Which other methods of communicating may be easier for some situations?

15 mins

Group activity

Active

Teach & Apply

Another example is the use of role play – when someone, or multiple people, play different roles. This can be helpful for building an understanding of what someone is thinking or for playing out different scenarios. It can be good for building empathy and understanding of how someone else is feeling and why they make the decisions that they make.
Alongside talking about ideas or acting them out, the other big way that people share what they imagine is through pictures or diagrams.
However, we don’t need to be brilliant artists to get across our ideas – sometimes a quick sketch or simple diagram can help someone see what is in your imagination.

Optional Activity

Imagine Playing a Sport on the Moon

Give learners a stimulus question. For example, “What is it like to play football on the moon?”

Ask learners to act out how they would play the game. Give them time to imagine how they would get there, what it would look, sound and smell like.

At the end, reflect as a group on why this method of communicating is effective? Would it be the same to draw a picture of what we imagine or talk about it? Why do they think that?

20 mins

Individual activity

Active

Reflection & Assessment

Embed these strategies across your teaching and coaching to help learners apply what they’ve learnt.

Encourage learners to talk about what they are imagining whilst expressing it through physical movement.

Use these ideas for ways of assessing this skill step to help you check learners’ understanding and confidence.

Present stimulus questions and ask for responses using different physical/sporting actions.
Ask these reflective questions:
- How can you share what you imagine through acting it out? When can this be helpful?
- How can you share what you imagine through drawing pictures or diagrams? What are the advantages of this?
- Can you give examples of where you have done this?