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Nature Cubing
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Cubing is a brainstorming strategy. With cubing, like with other brainstorming methods, you start with one topic, challenge or issue. Then, you apply six points of view (like the six sides of a cube) to the issue.
Describe it
Goal: Examine the topic closely and describe it in detail
Pre-writing: Cubing
Describe the image that
comes to mind when you think of nature.
What colors, textures, sounds, and smells are present?
Where is nature and who is there?
What are they wearing? Doing?
Argue For
or Against It
Compare it
Goal: Use any reasoning to argue for or against the subject.
Goal: Compare/contrast your topic with something else
Main Idea: Nature
Argue for or against the following...
- Why should people go into nature? What can they get out of it?
- It is better to avoid nature.
- Do your thoughts on nature remind you of a well-known story (ex. Hansel and Gretel? Midsommer Murders?)?
OR
- Nature is like______________________
because_____________________________
How do you define nature?
How would you describe your relationship with nature?
Associate it
Apply it
Goal: What does nature make you think of?
Describe the subject's uses.
Examples:
- Can you think of a moment in nature that impacted you?
- Summarize your views on nature in a slogan that you could put on a t-shirt, something quick and catchy
- Try creating a metaphor to describe nature. (Nature is____. Remember, a metaphor is when you treat two dissimilar things as if they are equal.)
- Does nature remind you of a character from a book or famous person?
Analyze it
Goal: Break the subject into parts. Tell how it works.
Examples:
- Who likes nature? Why do they like it? Who hates it?
- Who has access to nature? Why?
- How does our culture(s) advertize nature?
- What should we do with nature? Protect it? Manage it? Use its resources for industry?