Curated OER
Harness Music to Enhance Writing
Use the magic of music to engage the senses and bring new life to your writing curriculum.
Media Smarts
Tobacco Labels
Adolescents compare and assess the efficacy of tobacco product health warning labels from around the world. In groups, they invent warnings and create labels that would be effective for teens and children. Discussion covers advertising...
Curated OER
Talking About Your Name in Math Terms
Add imagination and creativity to your math lesson. Young mathematicians investigate ways to express their names in mathematical terms. For instance, they can count the number of letters, analyze the geometric shapes of the letters, or...
Curated OER
"No, You Can't Take Me!"
Students study imitation or pantomime. In this creative drama lesson, students pick an object to imitate and state the reasons why that object should not be taken out of the room pretending to be that object.
Curated OER
Animal Diaries
Students read Diary of a Worm by Foreen Cronin. In this journal writing instructional activity, students research an animal and write a diary by their animal. Students apply the research they've completed in their writings. Students...
Curated OER
I Spy Poetry
Students identify and interpret the rhythm and form of the I Spy poem.
They then integrate art, music, literature, technology, and writing with poetry. Students also write their own poem based on the picture they printed from the I Spy...
Curated OER
A Stomping Good Time: Using Found Instruments and Invented Rhythms to Make Beautiful Music
Students work in small groups to use everyday objects to create performances inspired by the work of STOMP. They create a system of notation to document the music and movement of a 2-minute performance.
Curated OER
Picture Perfect: Reading and Narrative Writing
Pupils will create a fictional narrative based on the cover of a picture book provided by the teacher. In this narrative writing lesson plan students incorporate all story elements and use strategies to engage the reader.
Curated OER
ART- LANGUAGE OF SYMBOLS
Students discuss how color construct meaning in art. They will demonstrate a technical knowledge and creative use of formal elements and principals of design. Students then discuss the way their selection of color contributed to their work.
Curated OER
Sculpture: Statues, Monuments, and More
Students explore some of the components of sculpture through a variety of artists and their artwork. The six lessons of this unit utilize the sculptures experienced when students were studying American history and the Native Americans.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Create and Play: Are You an Artist?
Look at all the ways you can be an artist. Includes audio narration in 9 additional languages with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Family: Make Believe Box
In this story, a family has fun gathering things for a make-believe box. Includes audio narration in 9 additional languages with text in English.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Neuroscience of Imagination
How does your brain produce an image of something you've never seen? Andrey Vyshedskiy details the neuroscience of imagination. [4:49]
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What Adults Can Learn From Kids
Child prodigy Adora Svitak says the world needs childish thinking: bold ideas, wild creativity, and especially optimism. Kids' big dreams deserve high expectations, she says, starting with grownups' willingness to learn from children as...
Other
India Parenting: Left Brain, Right Brain
India Parenting takes a look at why "I?m creative and he?s analytical" with a discussion of right brain and left brain characteristics.
Other
Creativity Web: Resources for Creativity and Innovation
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.
Other
University of Chicago Libary: How to Develop Student Creativity
An excellent article about how you can help develop your students to think more creatively. It includes a list of 25 things you can do to develop creativity.
Other
The Second Principle: Killing or Fostering Creativity in Children
Listed on this page are the things we as parents and teachers inadvertently do to discourage creativity in children and ideas for how to foster creativity.
Mind Tools
Mind Tools: How Creative Are You?
Do you know how creative you are? Take this quiz and find comprehensive and personalized answers to find your creative strengths and weaknesses.
Other
Creating Minds: Creative Tools
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...
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Creativity
In this tutorial, you'll learn some tips for being creative at work and at home.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Dramatic Writing With Ansel Adams [Pdf]
Using Ansel Adams photographs for inspiration, students will explore creative writing, directing, and acting.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Dramatic Writing With Ansel Adams [Pdf]
Using Ansel Adams photographs for inspiration, students will explore creative writing, directing, and acting.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Discover the Art of Playwriting [Pdf]
In this lesson, students participate in interpersonal warm-up exercises to awaken their bodies and prepare them for collaboration. Next, they go through brainstorming exercises to stimulate their imaginations, and this leads into...