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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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Infotoday: Digital Storytelling Finds Its Place in Class
When we use multimedia to develop and share student stories we foster self-expression. The added dimension of video provides a method for these students to display their creativity. This article features an educator's insight and tips in...
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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.
Edutopia
Edutopia: Harnessing the Power of Productive Struggle
Teaching that struggling is part of learning math encourages creativity and builds engagement and perseverance. This article describes Mrs. Tambor's second-grade math class in which the format of the lesson reflected her desire to build...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Science Education Center: Why Right Brained Is Wrong Brained
This video discusses the myth of being pegged right brained or left brained and how this can pigeonhole students from an early age. Science may be seen as a left-brained, however, you need many right-brained elements such as...
Buck Institute
Pbl Works: Leading With the 4 C's to Build the 5th C: Culture
[Free Registration/Login Required] A video and an article discussing how critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity in PBL can lead to a positive culture in the school. [32:12]
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Be an Ad Detective
Every day, students are bombarded by advertising. They cannot escape it. But marketers realize that many ypung people are becoming very good at tuning ads out. Businesses thus are becoming more creative in their communication with...
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Medium: 5 Ways to Encourage Self Directed Learning in Young Children
Self-direction is one of the most powerful skills anyone can develop. In today's world of high stakes testing and educational pressure, here are some ways to encourage the development of self-direction in learning.
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U.s. House Unanimously Passes Resolution Supporting School Based Music Education
Recognizing that music education develops skills for the 21st century workforce, the U.S. House unanimously passed House Concurrent Resolution 121 in April, 2007. This resolution supports the need to have music education accessible to...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Lesson: Weather and Wind
Here's an engaging activity to incorporate dance into your science lessons on weather! Students study wind, and various weather patterns, then create their own dance to illustrate what they have learned. Provides links to more...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Additional Programming Projects
Khan Academy has ten projects in Intro to JavaScript: Drawing & Animation curriculum, where each project is an opportunity for students to be more creative and free-form with their newfound programming knowledge.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: I Wanted to Fly Like a Butterfly
Introducing the Holocaust to young children can be tricky. The author of "I Wanted to Fly Like a Butterfly" reworked the story in a way that young children can be exposed to the Holocaust on an appropriate emotional level. This in-depth...