Transforming Education
Self-Management Strategies
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...
Braingle
Braingle: Mentalrobics Creativity
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.
Other
Art Junction: Art Sparkers
Ideas to jump-start imaginations and inspire creative work related to personal understanding and discovery. Ideas include instructions for creating family portraits, community maps, storm scenes, and similar multidisciplinary artworks.
Other
Odyssey of the Mind Curriculum Activity: Made Up Math
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.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Video Game Scores
Standard 5.OA.2 asks learners to "Write simple expressions that record calculations with numbers, and interpret numerical expressions without evaluating them." This task asks students to exercise both of these complementary skills,...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Creating a Compelling Story [Pdf]
Using music from a wide variety of cultures, learners will develop good listening skills and write from the heart using their own voices. This aural exercise will help students begin to think creatively.
Organization for Community Networks
Ofcn: Adjective? What's an Adjective?
What is an adjective? This site features a lesson plan that will allow students to think creatively and work in small groups. This will sharpen your grammar skills.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 10: Interpretation and Meaning
Using the lyrics, music and video of a selected song (example used here is 'One' by the Irish group U2), students will explore the ways in which words, music and visual images interact to create meaning. Students will analyze the...