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Infinite Innovations Ltd.: Free Brainstorming Training

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Creative Engineering Design

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are introduced to the world of creative engineering product design. Through six activities, teams work through the steps of the engineering design process (or loop) by completing an actual design challenge presented in six...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Design Step 3: Brainstorm Possible Solutions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Brainstorming is a team creativity activity that helps generate a large number of potential solutions to a problem. In this activity, students participate in a group brainstorming activity to generate possible solutions to their...
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Creative Thinking and Lateral Thinking Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Mycoted: Creativity Techniques an a to Z

For Students 9th - 10th
A large assortment of various creative techniques that can be used to help spark your creative thinking skills. Listed in alphabetical order, each technique has a brief article describing its process and how it can be used.
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Braingle

Braingle: Mentalrobics Creativity

For Students 9th - 10th
Exercise your brain and creative thinking. Find daily questions, games, and ideas that will force you to brainstorm, create, imagine, and use your creativity on your own or in a classroom setting.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Speedy Shelter (Pdf)

For Students K - 1st
This is a hands-on challenge to invent a sturdy emergency shelter that's easy to build. Provides a full list of materials with ideas on how to build, test, and redesign it if necessary. Activity focuses on the engineering design process...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Future Flights!

For Teachers 5th - 7th
This activity is an exciting conclusion to the airplanes unit that encourages students to think creatively. After a review of the concepts learned, students will design their own flying machine based on their knowledge of the forces...
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Curated OER

This Shows the Creative Process

For Students 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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Ad Cracker

For Students 9th - 10th
In this website students can learn to create an international advertising agency. They will learn to write a brief, create a brand and position the product. They will also be introduced to the fundamentals of creative writing as well as...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Discover the Art of Playwriting [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students participate in interpersonal warm-up exercises to awaken their bodies and prepare them for collaboration. Next, they go through brainstorming exercises to stimulate their imaginations, and this leads into...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Describing Words

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Children are able to identify describing words in sentences and pictures. They then are able to brainstorm describing words about a picture and write sentences using the words.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How Far Does the Robot Go?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice their multiplication skills using robots with wheels built from LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT kits. They brainstorm distance travelled by the robots without physically measuring distance and then apply their math skills to...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Electricity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this interactive activity, learners will explore electricity and be able to design and create a complete electrical circuit. Students will also learn what is necessary to light a light bulb. Creative thought, ideas, and,...
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My Science Site

Density Demonstration: Coke vs. Diet Coke [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Help students brainstorm and find a solution as to why Diet Coke floats and Coke sinks. Student will learn to define what density is as they engage in this creative lab. This resource is in PDF form; requires Adobe Reader.
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Sprk: Sphero Chariot Stem Challenge [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
SPRK STEM challenges are fun, interactive activities that challenge students to use creativity and team-work to move through simple steps of the design process in order to build Sphero-based creations. In this challenge, there are...
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Sprk: Sphero Bridge Stem Challenge [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
SPRK STEM challenges are fun, interactive activities that challenge students to use creativity and team-work to move through simple steps of the design process in order to build Sphero-based creations. In this challenge students will...