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Creating Minds: Creating a Creative Climate
Written from a business perspective, this sites ideas about creating a creative atmosphere can easily be adapted to any classroom.
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Creating Minds: Myths About Creativity
Creative thinking is an important skill needed in the schools and workplace today. However, many people believe they are not able to be creative. This site sets out to dispell the myths about creativity.
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Creating Minds: Lateral Thinking
There are several methods that can help develop creative thinking skills. This site explains what a few of those methods are and how they can help you think more creatively.
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Creating Minds: Synectics
There are many techniques that can help to develop creative thinking skills. One of those techniques is called synectics. This site explains what synectics is and how it works.
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Class Flow: Glorious Empty Page
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart prompts us to get excited about the possibilities of the blank page. Read the article by Peter Reynolds and begin to,"light the flame" of your own creativity. This is the time to play,...
Duke University
Duke University: Developing Creativity
A brief yet informative article about how parents can foster creativity within their children. Listed are five things you can do to encourage your children to be more creative.
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Duke Tip: Fostering Creativity
It's never too late to foster creativity in children. This article provides some advice on how to nurture creativity in children.
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Make Beliefs Comix: Create Your Own Comic
Create a three frame comic strip by choosing backgrounds, characters, and objects. Add original dialogue or thoughts, review the comic, and then print or email it to share.
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Crayola: Crayola Creativity Central: Snowman Builder
In this online game students can choose a hat, fact, clothes, and more to create a snowman. Erase it and start again, or print out a picture to color.
Duke University
Duke University: Myths, Legends, and Creativity
Resource dispels the myths often associated with creativity and counterbalances them with the reality of what creative behaviors are. (Published June 30, 2006)
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Schoolzone: Developing Creative Thought
A good article discussing the importance of developing creative thought. Throughout the article are examples of how to incorporate strategies that promote creativity in your students.
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Thinking Skills in Education: Methods to Improve Problem Solving
Containing many resources for further reading about thinking skills, this site provides a lot of good information about how to improve problem solving.
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Instructional Design: Creativity
This article provides a short introduction into some of the psychological views concerning curiosity. It provides a long list of references for further research.
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Improve Your Creative Thinking by Drawing Mind Maps
One way to help your creative process is to use mind maps. This article provides information about mind mapping and how it can help you discover new connections you may otherwise never have seen.
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University of Waterloo: Digital Mathematics Performance
Digital Mathematical Performance is a collection of performance pieces and presentations by mathematics educators and students demonstrates the creative side of mathematical learning and teaching.
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Creativity: Method or Magic?
An essay which explains what is and what is not creativity. By understanding what the creative process is, you will be able to properly invoke the creative thinking skills from within your students.
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How to Write a Test for Both Creativity and Knowledge
An excellent article providing many good ideas for how to write tests that encourage creativity and knowledge.
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Goshen College: Teaching Creativity
A comprehensive article about creative critical thinking written by an art teacher for art teachers.
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Stereotypes and Divergent Thinking: What Happens to Our Creativity as We Mature?
According to this author, creativity in children decreases as they get older. Learn what causes children to become less creative and what you can do as a teacher to help prevent it.
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Characteristics of Highly Creative Individuals
This page lists the 10 characteristics that highly creative people have. Knowing what these traits are can help parents or teachers to be able to recognize students who may exhibit creative thinking skills.
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Very Well Family: Unstructured Play for Children
Rather than have a purpose, unstructured play is child-led, often leading to play that is creative and improvised. This article discusses the importance of unstructured play and gives tips on how to help children get this most our of...
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Medium: 5 Ways to Encourage Self Directed Learning in Young Children
Self-direction is one of the most powerful skills anyone can develop. In today's world of high stakes testing and educational pressure, here are some ways to encourage the development of self-direction in learning.
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Bright Horizons: How Unstructured Play Can Encourage Healthy Risk Taking
Discover how unstructured play can help your child understand and develop healthy risk-taking skills. This article gives ideas on how to create risk-taking opportunities in a preschool environment.