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Abcteach: Kwanzaa
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site features a worksheet focused on the seven Kwanzaa principles.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Writers Contest: Story Central
Stories by young writers grades K-3. Students can log in and keep their own writing materials or create "mashups" using elements from the stories provided here.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Rise of Human Computer Cooperation
Brute computing force alone can't solve the world's problems. Data mining innovator Shyam Sankar explains why solving big problems is not a question of finding the right algorithm, but rather the right symbiotic relationship between...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: A Call to Invention: Diy Speaker Edition
There's a pleasure in making things for yourself- especially something unexpected. William Gurstelle shows how to make your own speakers from objects probably already laying around your house, like copper wire and an empty yogurt cup. [6...
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...
PBS
Pbs Kids: How to Be an Inventor
Part of the Real Stories series from "Martha Speaks," this read-along story teaches young children how easy it is to be an inventor.
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
Infinite Innovations Ltd.: Free Brainstorming Training
A collection of free resources from a London-based developer of software that facilitates the process of brainstorming. Answers all the essential questions about brainstorming and includes many helpful brainstorming how-tos and sidebars...
Other
1000 Journals
An independent, privately funded social experiment that attempts to follow 1000 journals throughout their travels, to see where they go, and what people do with them.
FableVision
Fable Vision: Peter Reynolds: Living Forever
A click-through story about the power of words and illustrations to open readers' minds to unique ways of looking at the world.
Other
The Innovation Journal: Measuring Creativity
This is a paper that discusses the ways of creating a test for measuring creativity. It discusses why a test for creativity might be needed as well as concepts related to creativity such as knowledge, skills, and intelligence.
Other
Air University: Rules for Brainstorming
The success of collaborative brainstorming can only be successful given the right circumstances. Heed these 3 warnings to facilitate high-quality ideas.
FableVision
Fable Vision: Peter Reynolds: The North Star
A story about the importance of following your own path through life, not the path others have taken. Told with great simplicity and beautifully illustrated, The North Star celebrates independence, spirited inquiry, and a life full of...
Other
In Character: A Journal of Everyday Virtues
In Character is an online journal that examines a single virtue--compassion, creativity, purpose, modesty, loyalty, or thrift, for example--from different perspectives. Articles are written by noted scholars, journalists, and critics,...
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
Litemind: Creative Problem Solving With Scamper
SCAMPER is a technique you can use to spark your creativity and help you overcome any challenge you may be facing. In essence, SCAMPER is a general-purpose checklist with idea-spurring questions - which is both easy to use and...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: November Is National American Indian Herigage Month
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.
Other
Creative Thinking: Three Basic Principles
Understanding these three basic principles of creative thinking can help teachers focus on ways to enhance and encourage creative thinking in the classroom.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Story Starters: Intriguing Titles
In this lesson plan, an interactive link included to help generate ideas for stories. A button is clicked and a topic is given. In a writer's notebook or journal, each student will use the topic given and develop it. [Requires Adobe...
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.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Picture Stories"
Excellent classroom activities for building learners' character. This activity focuses on students' critical thinking, creative, and comprehension skills. Good resource.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Picture Stories"
Excellent classroom activities for building young scholars' character. This activity focuses on students' critical thinking, creative, and comprehension skills. Good resource.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Ed "I Have a Story to Tell"
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes acquainting students with the narrative writing process, emphasizing the importance of writing, encouraging students to use imagination,...