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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.
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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.
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Teaching Creativity Skills: Creative Thinking Skills for Life and Education
Presents information about how to use creativity in the classroom. There are also many links to other sites that contain additional resources pertaining to creativity.
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Techniques for Creative Thinking
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?
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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Increase Creativity in Two Steps
There are many ways to help you increase your creative thinking skills. This site focuses on just two simple things you can easily do to foster your own creativity.
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Creative Thinking and Lateral Thinking Techniques
Developing your creative thinking skills is increasingly important in the 21st century workplace. This page lists several techniques and tutorials for helping you develop your own creative thinking skills.
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The Creativity Cycle
Learning how to be creative can be a challenge for many people. This three step procedure can help get you on your way to developing your creative thinking skills.
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Creating Systems to Reinforce Creativity
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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What Is Brainstorming?
Brainstorming can be a helpful tool during the creative thinking process. Learn the origins of brainstorming, what it isn't and the general guidelines associated with this technique.
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Why Study Creativity?
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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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.
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Odyssey of the Mind Curriculum Activity: Extend Sive Thinking
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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Creative Thinking With Leonardo Da Vinci
By looking at one of history's greatest geniuses, Leonardo da Vinci, this site shows you how you can help your own creative thinking.
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Creative Thinking With Fake i.d.
Jumpstart your creative thinking by using the idea of choosing a fake identity for yourself. Taking on a new persona can help free your mind to think in a whole different way.
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Creative Thinking With Notebooking
Did you know that the notebook you carry around can be a useful tool to help stimulate your creative thinking? This site shows you that by simply jotting down your ideas as they come to you can strengthen your creative process.
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Creative Thinking With Thomas Edison
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
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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Creating Minds: Creating a Creative Climate
Written from a business perspective, this sites ideas about creating a creative atmosphere can easily be adapted to any classroom.
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Creating Minds: Myths About Creativity
Creative thinking is an important skill needed in the schools and workplace today. However, many people believe they are not able to be creative. This site sets out to dispell the myths about creativity.
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Creating Minds: Synectics
There are many techniques that can help to develop creative thinking skills. One of those techniques is called synectics. This site explains what synectics is and how it works.
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Duke University: Myths, Legends, and Creativity
Resource dispels the myths often associated with creativity and counterbalances them with the reality of what creative behaviors are. (Published June 30, 2006)
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Thinking Skills in Education: Methods to Improve Problem Solving
Containing many resources for further reading about thinking skills, this site provides a lot of good information about how to improve problem solving.