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William & Mary

Inferential Reading Comprehension Considerations Packet

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Don't forget to read between the lines! Educators learn tips and activities to help scholars learn to infer to increase reading comprehension. Activities suggested include think alouds, backwards words, and who's who. the packet includes...
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Self-Management Strategies

For Teachers K - 12th
What self-management techniques help scholars achieve their goals? Readers review a list of strategies for managing stress, increasing motivation, and setting goals. They discover how to monitor their emotions, create checklists to stay...
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Atlas Mission: 7 Kindergarten Creative Thinking Activities That Are Fun for Kids

For Teachers Pre-K - K
With so much emphasis put on classwork, common core curriculum, and even homework, creative thinking can get pushed to the bottom of the barrel for kids, even kindergarteners. Here are 7 activities to inspire creativity.
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The Second Principle: On Creativity: On Creativity an Introduction & Index

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a very informative page on the creative process, written by an educator. There are links to books, creative thinking patterns, brainstorming activities, and how to inspire creativity, to name a few.
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Harvard University: Project Zero: Artful Thinking

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Find engaging ways to integrate visual art and music into regular classroom instruction and strengthen cognitive thinking skills and abilities to reason creatively from multiple perspectives. Get great classroom questioning tips, case...
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Read Write Think: Designing Museum Exhibits for "The Grapesof Wrath"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Integrating various creative formats with solid, researched fact, allows students to show what they have learned. The resulting "museum" can be shared with an audience in any of a number of ways. Includes handouts, rubric, and...
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Odyssey of the Mind Curriculum Activity: Extend Sive Thinking

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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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Teach Engineering: Thinking Green!

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students show their creativity and think like engineers as they design products or services that can be used to improve environmental problems in the community. While being aware of the steps of the engineering design process, students...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: November Is National American Indian Herigage Month

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
ReadWriteThink offers a very thorough lesson plan that encourages students to create their own pourquoi stories. Included are downloadable pdf files needed to incorporate the lesson.
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University of Canterbury

University of Canterbury: Cs Unplugged: Primary Enrichment Program [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
This unit introduces learners to some of the building blocks of how computers work without using a computer at all. The lessons keep students actively involved in communication, problem solving, creativity, and thinking skills in...
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Environmental Education for Kids

Eek!: Activity: Trees and Air Quality

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Site offers lessons and activities designed to supplement study of the environment and ecology. Concise explanations are presented on the importance of trees in our world. Also, problem solving and creative thinking is encouraged...
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Braingle: Mentalrobics Creativity

For Students 9th - 10th
Exercise your brain and creative thinking. Find daily questions, games, and ideas that will force you to brainstorm, create, imagine, and use your creativity on your own or in a classroom setting.
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Odyssey of the Mind Curriculum Activity: My Robot and Me

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this activity students are asked to come up with ways a robot could help them. They are then required to write a humorous story about that robot and present it to the class. This activity encourages students to be creative while also...
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Odyssey of the Mind Curriculum Activity: Understanding Misunderstandings

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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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Read Write Think: Randolph Caldecott Classroom Activity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A teacher resource for getting students to understand and appreciate the contribution of Randolph Caldecott in recognition of his birthday. Allows students to be creative and contains lesson plans, web links, and a bibliography. From...
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Pbs: Rough Science

For Students 9th - 10th
Website companion to PBS show, "Rough Science," in which five scientists use their collective expertise to complete a series of tasks. Follow the scientists as they do things like generate electricity, make soap, make antibacterial...
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University of Canterbury

University of Canterbury: Cs Unplugged

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A collection of free learning activities that teach computer science through games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons and lots of running around. The activities introduce students to computational thinking through concepts such...
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And Now, a Word From Our Sponsors: Teacher Guide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This complete unit plan includes an overview of student activities, a number of activities for the class, complete with handouts and rubrics, and a student guide that explains what will be learned and how.
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Curated OER

Google for Education: Children and Technology: Simulating an I Pad

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Experience being a button on a touch screen, feel the power and control of an operating system, be as smart as a processor. During this activity, students simulate a calculator application.
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Odyssey of the Mind Curriculum Activity: Made Up Math

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Poetry to Teach Reading & Writing

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Lesson plan makes use of weekly poems for students to read, discuss, and study. Students compile a poetry portfolio to use for further learning in reading and writing, as well as engaging in interactive activities such as creative poetry...
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Read Write Think: Is a Sentence a Poem?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Contains plans for a poetry lesson that asks students to analyze one-sentence poems in order to better understand poetry and how it works. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Creative Problem Solving With Ezra Jack Keats

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Contains plans for eight 50-minute lessons that use Ezra Jack Keats books to teach predicting, comparing and contrasting, and problem solving. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF...