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Venn Diagrams

 

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Another way to brainstorm is to create a Venn diagram. To create a Venn you can ask yourself what you know about a situation, what the three most important elements of a situation are, what the characteristics have in common, and what they don’t have in common. You can place your ideas into circles and then have the ideas overlap, while exploring the feeling that occurs when the circles overlap. For more information on Venn diagrams, go to www.venndiagram.com.
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