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Creativity Web: Resources for Creativity and Innovation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Containing links to many resources to various aspects of creativity, this site can help spark your own imagination for how to implement creative thinking in your own classroom.
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Creative Thinking: Three Basic Principles

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Understanding these three basic principles of creative thinking can help teachers focus on ways to enhance and encourage creative thinking in the classroom.
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Creating Minds: Creative Tools

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you need help being creative? Here is an excellent resource that lists many different tools or techniques that can aid you in being creative. Each tool includes information for when to use it, how to use it, examples in its use and...
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Techniques for Creative Thinking

For Teachers 9th - 10th
If you are stuck on ways to teach creativity in your classroom, you will find many various techniques on this site. Everything from mind mapping to fuzzy thinking is listed here. Each technique has a link to its description.
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What Can I Do to Increase My Creativity?

For Students 9th - 10th
This author introduces some ideas that can help you increase your own creativity. Most of the information is philosophical in content but can help you to think more productively about the creative process.
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Creating Systems to Reinforce Creativity

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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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Why Study Creativity?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Creative Thinking With Thomas Edison

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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.