How to Select an Underlying Problem

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How to Select an Underlying Problem

• Future Problem Solving Training

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Choose the Challenge You Like Best

• In order to come up with solutions to your
  problem, you must first pick one Challenge to
  work on.
• Let start with the Ant and the Grasshopper

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• 13. How can we get the grasshopper to find winter
  food?
• You must state the Challenge you picked in a very
  specific way.
• You will need to refer to page 10 of your FPS
  Student Guide Workbook for more detailed
  instructions.

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This is the Challenge I Choose

The Challenge 13. How can we get the grasshopper to find winter food? Condition Phrase Stem KVP Purpose
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The Condition Phrase
The Challenge 13. How can we get the grasshopper to find winter food? Condition Phrase Because winter is coming and the grasshopper didnt store food Stem KVP Purpose
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The Stem
The Challenge 13. How can we get the grasshopper to find winter food? Condition Phrase Because winter is coming and the grasshopper didnt store food Stem How might we KVP Purpose So that ______?
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The Key Verb Phrase (KVP)
The Challenge 13. How can we get the grasshopper to find winter food? Condition Phrase Because winter is coming and the grasshopper didnt store food Stem How might we KVP Teach the grasshopper to find winter food Purpose So that ______?
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Purpose
The Challenge 13. How can we get the grasshopper to find winter food? Condition Phrase Because winter is coming and the grasshopper didnt store food Stem How might we KVP Teach the grasshopper to find winter food Purpose So that he wont starve to death.
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Future Scene Parameters (FSP)
The Challenge 13. How can we get the grasshopper to find winter food? Condition Phrase Because winter is coming and the grasshopper didnt store food Stem How might we KVP Teach the grasshopper to find winter food Purpose So that he wont starve to death.
FSP Time Winter of 2008 Place Idaho Topic
Saving Grasshoppers
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Lets try another one!

• For the past few years, we have not had much
  water for our crops.
• I thought one challenge that might come from
  that situation could be
• How can yards without water be pleasant to look
  at?

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The Condition Phrase

• Because there are No Out-Doors Watering laws

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The Stem

• how might we

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The Key Verb Phrase (KVP)

• Create beautiful yards without water

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The Purpose

• so people will want to live

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Future Scene Parameters (FSP)

• in Idaho, with less water, by the year 2015?

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The Underlying Problem

• Condition PhraseBecause there are No Out-Doors
  Watering laws
• Stem how might we
• KVP Create beautiful yards without water
• Purpose so people will want to live
• FSP in Idaho, with less water, by the year
  2015?

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The Underlying Problem

• Because there are No Out-Doors Watering laws,
  how might we create beautiful yards without water
  so people will want to live in Idaho, with less
  water, by the year 2015?

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Keep Practicing!

• Pick four challenges, from any of the previous
  assignments, to turn into an Underlying Problem.
  You may want to put the FSP in a separate
  sentence.

The Challenge Condition Phrase Stem KVP Purpose
1 Because______________... How might we So_____________________?
2 Because______________... How might we So_____________________?
3 Because______________... How might we So_____________________?
4 Because______________... How might we So_____________________?
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You are on your way!

• You have conquered the first and second steps of
  FPS.
• Lets see how you do with creating solutions.