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Kentucky Odyssey of the Mind: Creative Thinking Strategies
Knowing different strategies for facilitating the creative process can help you find what works best for you and your students. This site briefly lists several creative thinking strategies and their steps.
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The Creativity Cycle
Learning how to be creative can be a challenge for many people. This three step procedure can help get you on your way to developing your creative thinking skills.
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Etv: Nasa Online: Invention Process: Brain Teasers
Interactive brain games that challenge thinking and creativity skills.
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Scholastic: Make Your Own Captain Underpants Comic
Create a Captain Underpants comic by choosing characters, dialogue, objects, and backgrounds on a series of four slides. Then view the comic and email it to a friend. Requires Adobe Flash.
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Creating Systems to Reinforce Creativity
Although this article was written from a business perspective, the ideas throughout can easily be adapted to the classroom. The formula for creative output is explained and is a good way to encourage creativity among your students.
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What Is Brainstorming?
Brainstorming can be a helpful tool during the creative thinking process. Learn the origins of brainstorming, what it isn't and the general guidelines associated with this technique.
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Why Study Creativity?
With the new push for 21st century skills in education there is an increasing need to teach creative thinking skills to students. This page lists 12 reasons why we should study creativity and why it is important.
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Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy Creative Thinking
With humor and an easy to understand common sense approach, this article explains how easy it is to be a creative thinker. It provides good practical ideas that will enable you to find your creative side.
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Mind Mapping: Visual Creative Thinking
Mind mapping is an effective tool that can help with the creative thinking process. This article explains what mind mapping is and it shows you how you can effectively use it to help with your creative process.
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Michael Michalko Creative Thinking Techniques
As one of the country's leading experts on creative thinking, this site offers a brief overview of some of Michael Michalko's techniques.
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Bbc: Celts: Make Your Own Cartoon Strip
Create a cartoon based on the Celts during the Iron Age. Choose a background and two characters. Then type dialogue for both characters and add a title. Finally, watch the cartoon come to life. Print to share with others.
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Odyssey of the Mind Curriculum Activity: Made Up Math
An interesting way to make math more creative. This page gives ideas for three different exercises that encourage students to use math in a creative way.
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Odyssey of the Mind Curriculum Activity: Extend Sive Thinking
Encourage students to apply creative thinking to historical research in order to predict the future. This page provides three different activities that encourage creativity.
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Odyssey of the Mind Curriculum Activity: Understanding Misunderstandings
Provided are three activities that help students develop communication skills by using creative experimentation.
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Odyssey of the Mind Curriculum Activity: Healthy Humor
Students will enjoy these activities that promote a "Pro-Laughter" campaign using their creativity while exploring the physical and emotional effects of laughing.
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Creative Thinking With Leonardo Da Vinci
By looking at one of history's greatest geniuses, Leonardo da Vinci, this site shows you how you can help your own creative thinking.
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Creative Thinking With Brainstorming
Brainstorming has long been a useful tool for the development of new ideas. This article explains what brainstorming is and ways you can use it to enhance your own creative thinking skills.
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Creative Thinking With Fake i.d.
Jumpstart your creative thinking by using the idea of choosing a fake identity for yourself. Taking on a new persona can help free your mind to think in a whole different way.
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Creative Thinking With Notebooking
Did you know that the notebook you carry around can be a useful tool to help stimulate your creative thinking? This site shows you that by simply jotting down your ideas as they come to you can strengthen your creative process.
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Creative Thinking With Thomas Edison
As a master inventor Thomas Edison used many techniques that helped him with his creative ideas. Learn how you can apply some of his techniques to yourself to aid you in your own creative inventiveness.
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Creative Thinking With Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller was a very successful and creative genius. Learn the strategies and techniques he used to foster his creativity and learn how to apply them to yourself.
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Mycoted: Creativity Techniques an a to Z
A large assortment of various creative techniques that can be used to help spark your creative thinking skills. Listed in alphabetical order, each technique has a brief article describing its process and how it can be used.
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Creative Thinking: In Business and Elsewhere
Creative thinking has several components. This article briefly explains what each of the components are and provides some ideas on how to make them work for you.
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Creating Minds: Age and Creativity
According to this article, when we are young we have our greatest creative potential. As we grow older our creativity declines. Discussed here is how to stay creative as we get older.