SCAMPER is an acronym to further brainstorming. It has you take an object or a situation and change it many different ways and many times to come up with a new product. Watch the video below as they use the SCAMPER technique to change a roll of Smarties.
I plan on using SCAMPER in the classroom with my students during our science unit on adaptation. I had my son's complete the planned activity this summer. I asked them to take an African animal and said that their habitat was becoming cooler like the North Pole. We then substituted, combined, adapted, modified, put something on the animal to another use, eliminated, and rearranged something on the animal to make him more suited to a changing climate. Below are some images that my sons created. What I really liked about this activity for classroom use is that they could each describe how the change would help the animal adapt to his new climate and how engaged both of my energetic boys were.