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University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina Writing Center Handouts: Brainstorming

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This handout describes brainstorming as " taking advantage of your natural thinking processes by gathering your brain's energies into a 'storm.'" Learn how to use brainstorming techniques to gather ideas before you begin a project or to...
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Creative Thinking With Brainstorming

For Students 9th - 10th
Brainstorming has long been a useful tool for the development of new ideas. This article explains what brainstorming is and ways you can use it to enhance your own creative thinking skills.
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Tom Richey

Slideshare: Creative Brainstorming

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This slide presentation provides a background of why the process of brainstorming is important as well as elements and tools you can use to get your creative juices flowing.
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SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Developing Ideas for Writing: Brainstorming

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource explains brainstorming and gives a sample idea list generated from brainstorming.
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Other

Air University: Rules for Brainstorming

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The success of collaborative brainstorming can only be successful given the right circumstances. Heed these 3 warnings to facilitate high-quality ideas.
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Other

Reading Quest: Making Sense of Social Studies

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Teaching students to read well in areas other than language arts requires teaching and reinforcing the kinds of reading strategies taught here. There are 27 strategies, ranging from brainstorming to word mapping. The site includes PDF...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Tips for Test Takers: Brainstorming

For Students 3rd - 8th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource gives information on brainstorming as a test taking strategy.
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SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Developing Ideas for Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explains nine methods for developing ideas for writing, including freewriting, brainstorming, clustering/mapping, maintaining a personal journal, responding to a text, maintaining a response journal, responding to a specific assignment,...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: A Mini World

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
As young scholars learn about the creation of biodomes, they are introduced to the steps of the engineering design process, including guidelines for brainstorming. Students learn how engineers are involved in the design and construction...
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TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Find It With Gps!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using a GPS handheld device and online resources, students work in teams to explore the technology behind GPS, current GPS applications, and brainstorm new applications for future global use to solve society's issues.
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Other

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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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Color Poems: Using the Five Senses to Guide Prewriting

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for four 50-minute lessons that ask students to use their five senses for poetry prewriting. In addition to student objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: The Ab Cs of Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Contains plans for a poetry lesson that asks students to write poems after brainstorming metaphors and other ideas as a group. Ideas are groups by different themes, like letters of the alphabet. In addition to objectives and standards,...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: N q.a.1: Ice Cream Van

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The purpose of this task is to engage students, probably working in groups, in a substantial and open-ended modeling problem. Students will have to brainstorm or research several relevant quantities, and incorporate these values into...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: A Math and Language Arts Lesson: Division

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The lesson plan will help students develop an initial understanding of division and clarify how the four operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division relate to and are separate from each other. The lesson plan begins...
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Write Design: Graphic Organizers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site explores what graphic organizers are and why they are such valuable instructional tools. Five main types of organizers are addressed: webs, charts, trees, chains, and sketches.
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Wes Tech Vision: Inspiration Software

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This article explains why Inspiration is a must for your classroom. The author states that Inspiration is "Available to help learners of all ages bridge the gap between visual and textual literacy, and aid in concept development in...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Showing Plots & Conflicts

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, recommendations from Ralph Fletcher's book called Live Writing will be used as a teacher reference. Students will write introductions to three different stories in their writer's notebooks, but each type of conflict must...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Serendipitous Superheroes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson, SuperHero ABC, a book written by Bob McLeod, and Meanwhile, a book by Jules Feiffer, are used as mentor texts. Students will work in groups and create lists of unique superhero powers that start with different letters of...
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How Do Creative Thinking Techniques Work?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
We know that it is important to teach students to be creative thinkers. We also know there are many websites that show how to encourage the creative process. This site explains how those creative thinking techniques work.

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