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Worksheet
Curated OER

Lateral Thinking

For Students 6th - 10th
For this lateral thinking puzzles worksheets, students use their problem solving skills to solve 10 word challenge puzzles revealing well-known words and phrases.
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Activity
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Brain Boosters

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Discovery School offers a terrific "categorized archive of challenging Brain Boosters." Choose from hundreds of engaging activities pertaining to Categorization, Lateral Thinking, Reasoning, Logic, Word and Letter Play, Spatial...
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Mind Tools

Mind Tools: Creativity Tools

For Students Pre-K - 1st
There are two different styles of creativity, technical and artistic. This article focuses on technical creativity and its two main strands, programmed thinking and lateral thinking, with examples of each approach.
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Other

Mycoted: Lateral Thinking Puzzles

For Students 9th - 10th
A storehouse of puzzles designed to train the brain to think in atypical ways. Find riddles, visual puzzles, analogies, math problems, and more. Excellent source of raw material for practicing original and creative thinking one puzzle at...
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Other

Creative Thinking and Lateral Thinking Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th
Developing your creative thinking skills is increasingly important in the 21st century workplace. This page lists several techniques and tutorials for helping you develop your own creative thinking skills.
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Website
Other

Infinite Innovations Ltd.: Tutorial on Creative (Lateral) Thinking

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to use creative-thinking techniques within a problem-solving framework involving problem definition, problem analysis, solution generation, solution analysis, solution voting, and next steps.
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Article
Other

Creating Minds: Lateral Thinking

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Curated OER

Lateral Thinking

For Students 9th - 10th
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.