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Branksome Hall Asia: Design and Inquiry: Invention and Innovation

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive resource on invention, innovation, and creativity. Explores the field of product design, marketing, innovation strategies, collaboration of stakeholders, product life cycle, and Rogers' elements of innovation. Includes...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: How to Promote Creative Thinking

For Teachers Pre-K - K
As teachers, we play an important role in supporting children's ability in art, dramatic expression, and creative responses to problems. Creative power increases a young child's desire to learn and supports intellectual development. This...
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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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OpenStax

Open Stax: Entrepreneurship: Creativity, Innovation, and Invention: How They Differ

For Students 9th - 10th
This resources teaches students how to distinguish between creativity, innovation, and invention, and to explain the difference between pioneering and incremental innovation, and which processes are best suited to each.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Creative Writing Through Wordless Picture Books

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Need help planning ways to creatively teach your students chronological order? Here's a great place to start. While the site is specifically geared toward the middle school student, it is a teaching idea which could easily be adapted for...
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Atlas Mission: 7 Creative Development Activities for Preschoolers to Inspire

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Children are born creative. However, these pint-sized artists need a little guidance to channel all that creativity into something productive. This article lists 7 super fun creative development activities for preschoolers to help...
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Vantage Quest: Comparative View of Creative Theories

For Students 9th - 10th
An article comparing creativity theories of psychoanalytic, behavioristic, and humanistic psychology.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Music and Math: The Genius of Beethoven

For Students 9th - 10th
How is it that Beethoven, who is celebrated as one of the most significant composers of all time, wrote many of his most beloved songs while going deaf? The answer lies in the math behind his music. Natalya St. Clair employs the...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pre K 12 Resources for New School Routines: Sharing Your Creativity, Part 2: Pre K and K

For Students Pre-K - K
These weekly activities are cross-curricular but emphasize Social-Emotional Learning, Math and Literacy development. This week (December 21st), we're learning how developing new artistic ideas helps us to express our thoughts and feelings.
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Air, Atmosphere and Living Systems

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This unit includes a complete set of science lessons that enable learners to creatively explore basic concepts related to air and the atmosphere, air quality, and associated issues, such as allergens in the places we live, study and work.
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Medium: Why Every Kindergarten and First Grade School Day Should Begin With...

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This article was written to validate and be a voice for like-minded educators and families who want their children to have more time during the school day for inquiry and imaginative play. This article includes a list of articles, blogs,...
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Creative Thinking: Three Basic Principles

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Understanding these three basic principles of creative thinking can help teachers focus on ways to enhance and encourage creative thinking in the classroom.
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The Innovation Journal: Measuring Creativity

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Mind Tools

Mind Tools: How Creative Are You?

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you know how creative you are? Take this quiz and find comprehensive and personalized answers to find your creative strengths and weaknesses.
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Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Teach and Assess Creativity and Innovation in Pbl

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Understand how PBL can help students learn a process for effective innovation in this article. Article points out three ways educators can teach creativity and innovation in PBL. Site also includes a video discussing the same issue as...
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Valuing and Developing Creativity

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
With the emergence of the 21st century skills in education, creative thinking and creative teaching are beginning to have more prominence within the educational structure. This article addresses the need to put creativity in the center...
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Center For Civic Education

Center for Civic Education: James Madison and Executive Power

For Teachers 10th - 12th
This lesson examines the legacy of the "philosopher statesman," James Madison. Madison combined the intellectual knowledge and creativity of the scholar with the practical savvy of the politician, a man of strong principles who also...
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Boggle's World: Creative Writing Worksheets

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
A large collection of downloadable writing prompt worksheets to encourage students to develop their writing skills. Includes a variety of themes and some on special celebrations, such as Christmas and Halloween.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Creative Writing

For Students 9th - 10th
An introduction to creative writing with links to more information on the following topics: Fiction Writing Basics, Pattern and Variation in Poetry, Pattern and Variation: Aural, Pattern and Variation: Visual, characters and Fiction...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Sum of Even and Odd

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, students use the structure of an expression to find ways to rewrite it. They are asked to use the defining property of even and odd functions to manipulate expressions involving function notation and to see the structure in...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Jason and the Golden Fleece

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore characterization, plot and setting and compare these elements in mythology and modern works of literature, film and television. Retell myths in modern settings or modern-day stories using a mythological Greek setting. While this...
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Other

Creative Commons

For Students 9th - 10th
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that offers tools to authors and artists to create a "some rights reserved" copyright.
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Adobe: Page Maker Tutorial Using Layers Creatively

For Students 9th - 10th
Pagemaker includes a powerful Layers tool to work with multiple layers of intformation text/graphics. This tutorial explores three tips for using the Layers tool: multiple versions, quick arrangement, and stick-on notes.
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Smithsonian Institution

Lemelson Center: Silicon Valley: Success, Failure, and a Bit of Luck

For Students 9th - 10th
An account of the historic growth of the famous high tech California region known as the Silicon Valley! Read as circumstances placed creative people, and business in the right place at the right time allowing them to come together to...

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