The text discusses the SCAMPER creativity tool.

After reviewing this in the text, complete

the following chart with examples not found in the text. In the explanation column briefly
explain how the example relates to the question.

Questions Example Explanation

Substitute: What else Office file Used to preserve

instead? documents. meetings.
Flat surface
Who else instead? For writing and taking note

Other ingredients?

Other material? Other time?

Other place?

Combine: How about a Flat surface Place paper on the surface

blend? Combine purposes? writing/keeping documents for writing .
Combine materials?
Preserve papers and
documents

Adapt: What else is like this? Office table Place paper on table to
What other idea does this write/ Place paper on file
suggest? How can I adjust to surface to write
these circumstances?

Modify: Different order, Paper packaging Can be easily recycled

form, shape? Minify: What to
make smaller? Slower?
Lighter? What to do with less
frequency? Magnify: What to
 make higher? Longer?
Thicker? What to do with
greater frequency?

Put to other uses: New ways Papers rather than bottle Paper cup for coffee
to use as is? Other uses I and plastics
modified? Other places to
use an item or movement?

Eliminate: What to remove? Pollution Eliminate environmental

Omit? Understate? pollution

Rearrange: Other layout? Paper file for preservation Easy to use as flat surface
Other sequence? Transpose of documents/ Don’t litter for writing/ No litter
cause and effect? Transpose
positive and negative? How
about opposites?

Reverse: Interchange Organic waste Paper packaging, reproduce

components? Other pattern? for making books.
Backward? Upside down?

Assignment will be assessed using the following criteria:

 The chart contains accurate examples for each of the 8 questions.

 The chart contains accurate explanations for each of the 8 questions.
 Writing is clear. Used appropriate grammar and writing to express ideas.
References (if used) were cited properly.