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Better Than Bingo · Classroom Edition
Bad Product Pitch
Combine random classroom objects into an unnecessary product and pitch it with complete confidence.
24–30 min8–40 peopleTable groups
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Teacher prep · Do not project yet
Set the room up for success.
Materials
- Random classroom objects or object cards
- Paper or shared slides
- Timer
Before you begin
- Gather safe ordinary objects or prepare object cards
- Create optional constraint cards
- Plan roles beyond presenter
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What to say
“Your product should solve a problem nobody has. The pitch may be live, recorded, read by the teacher, or displayed as a one-slide ad.”
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Teacher notes · Do not project yet
Keep it comfortable and useful.
Make room for everyone
- Offer ideator, organizer, writer, designer, prop manager, recorder, and presenter roles.
- Never require live presenting.
- Use objects safe to handle and provide image cards as alternatives.
Watch out for
- Do not score charisma or production quality.
- Avoid products that mock disability, poverty, cultures, or real people.
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For students
Here’s what to do.
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Give each team two or three random objects.
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Teams invent a combined product, name, price, customer, and one absurd benefit.
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Add one optional constraint halfway through planning.
- 4
Give twelve minutes to build the pitch.
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Keep going.
- 5
Run ninety-second presentations with no ranking.
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Listeners name one surprisingly clever feature from each team.
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Prompt 01
Must appeal to people over seventy
Take a moment to think. Passing or writing instead is always okay.
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Prompt 02
Must be sold using one image
Take a moment to think. Passing or writing instead is always okay.
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Prompt 03
Must be a subscription
Take a moment to think. Passing or writing instead is always okay.
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Prompt 04
Must fit inside a backpack
Take a moment to think. Passing or writing instead is always okay.
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Prompt 05
Must make a boring task slightly more dramatic
Take a moment to think. Passing or writing instead is always okay.
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Wrap it up
One last thought.
- Which constraint improved the idea?
- How did the team combine competing first ideas?