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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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Kelly Bear: Teaching Children Refusal Skills
Children who are taught refusal skills are more likely to make positive choices and refrain from engaging in high-risk behaviors. This site lists various learning exercises to practice refusal skills in your classroom.
PBS
Pbs: America Responds Classroom Resources
Online PBS lesson plan to help students understand world conflict and cooperation and the rights of people all over the world. Through this lesson, students learn how to respond to world conflict, such as September 11.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Now You're in Kindergarten
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps kindergarten students develop classroom rules, safety procedures and social skills. An introductory web link with animated video content gives examples for students. Templates for...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Doing Our Jobs
In this lesson, students will learn that there are rules to be followed or jobs to be done in the classroom. Students will also learn how to listen and speak to others.
CommonLit
Common Lit: "Why Dolphins Make Us Nervous" by Robert Krulwich
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
University of Florida
University of Florida: Conflict Resolution
This site presents findings of a study of the use of conflict resolution and peer mediation in middle schools. Only samples of the training and classroom materials are available.
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Teaching for Creativity: What Is the Torrance Incubation Model?
This easy-to-read article explains this creative thinking method and gives suggestions for using it with lessons that are already in use in the classroom. Includes a bibliography.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Managing and Expressing Feelings With Little Learners
This blog focuses on the teacher wanting to to give the kids an opportunity to socialize with each other and also provide some perspective for them on what is going on. Seeing each other in our homes would let them know that we're all in...
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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.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Analyzing Hurricanes Using Web and Desktop Gis
In this activity, students research hurricane data to discover their behavior and patterns. They map them across decades to see whether their frequency is increasing. They study Hurricane Andrew and investigate the relationship between...
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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.
PBS
Pbs: Simple Games That Explore Feelings
Identify and explore a wide range of human emotions and then participate in a classroom parade dramatizing emotions through body movements and facial expressions.
Other
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.
Other
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.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Helping Young Children Express Themselves
We know that communication is central to the learning process. Communication can be specifically linked to the expanding skills of listening and speaking, as children connect to the reading and writing behaviors that characterize early...
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Random Acts of Kindness: What People Are Doing: Teacher's Guide [Pdf]
Learn about kindness through activity ideas for students of all ages and ideas for encouraging positive behavior in the classroom and community. Learn what a "Random Act of Kindness" is, and find ways to talk about this character trait...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Beginning a Kindergarten Writers Workshop
A series of quick lessons teachers can use when setting up a Writers Workshop in their classrooms. Lessons include teaching students appropriate Writers Workshop behaviors and activities, building independence, discussion topics, and...