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Get ready for a veritable feast of innovative thinking. Please find below, a list of 130 innovative projects that can stretch anyone's thinking. Some may be completed in 5 mins. Others might take days. The focus for these thinking projects? Innovation, creativity and outright wonder.
Thinking Provocations

How could chocolate be posted in the mail? Develop a special envelope that would stop the chocolate from melting or being crushed.

Where will people be exploring in 100 years from now? Name the places, and the methods that will be used to get there.

Give at least 5 common points between a headache tablet and a rollercoaster.

Develop a new sport for playing on the moon, by taking advantage of the greatly reduced gravity.

A group of highly creative scientists have developed a species of trees that can actually talk. Although the trees’ speech is slow, and a little difficult to understand, most people can hear the words quite clearly.

In honour of the next World Environment Day, one of these trees has been chosen to present a speech to all of the members of your national government. On this momentous occasion, the tree will be placed in a giant pot, and stood in front of the microphone.

Write out the speech that you believe should be presented by this tree.

In the year 2050, the World Governing Council may pass a law stating that each family on Earth is only allowed to have one child. List at least three consequences of this law for these groups:

  • toy companies
  • schools
  • chocolate manufacturers
  • car manufacturers