Brainstorming

Brainstorming is a non-judgmental group creative process in which group members are encouraged to give voice to any ideas they personally consider relevant to the group exercise. In a face-to-face meeting, a brainstorming facilitator will usually stand in front of a big piece of paper and elicit ideas from the participants in the room. An online version of this process can be created by setting up a wiki for the entire class or for smaller student groups and asking people to submit ideas around a brainstorming topic. People can add ideas as they occur and link to other pages for elaboration.

An experiment about the polution of West Lake can have many possible experiments for all the four sciences. Physics, Biology and Chemistry can investigate the pollution level within the lake, while the students of ESS can investigate the effect of the pollution on the fishermen, as West Lake is a big asset to fishermen. This is a very suitable as all the sciences are intertwined very well with each other, therefore a well constructed conclusion can be drawn relating all the ideas. >> Chemistry students can investigate the pollution of chemicals within the lake Biology students can dissect the fish collected from the lake to analyze and investigate how their anatomy features are differnt from standard fish anatomy of the same specie, and how this can be related to the pollutions of the environment. >> Physics students can investigate how the pollution of the water effect the refractive index. >> Environmental System can investigate the effect of pollution on the fishermen. (economic, social, etc.)
 * Pollution within West Lake
 * Chemistry
 * Biology students
 * Physics
 * Environmental System: