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Teaching Creativity Skills: Creative Thinking Skills for Life and Education

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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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Kidsource OnLine

Fostering Academic Creativity in Gifted Students

For Teachers 9th - 10th
What can teachers to do encourage gifted students to exhibit creativity in the classroom? This article provides some suggestions and also list ways that adults often "kill" creativity in children.
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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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Goshen College

Eleven Classroom Creativity Killers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Something for every art educator to read and consider. Bartel outlines 9 things that most teachers do in the classroom that potentially kill their student's creativity.
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In Character: A Journal of Everyday Virtues

For Students 9th - 10th
In Character is an online journal that examines a single virtue--compassion, creativity, purpose, modesty, loyalty, or thrift, for example--from different perspectives. Articles are written by noted scholars, journalists, and critics,...
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Government of Alberta

Alberta Occupational Profile: Creative Arts Therapist

For Students 9th - 10th
This informative site offers information about the duties, working conditions, skills, education, employment, and salary of an expressive arts therapist.
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Creativity Workers: Not Just Dancing and Acting

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Some interesting observations about work and creativity in the 21st century and what it all means for education.
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Thinking Skills in Education: Methods to Improve Problem Solving

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Containing many resources for further reading about thinking skills, this site provides a lot of good information about how to improve problem solving.
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Children's Music Workshop: Twelve Benefits of Music Education

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The benefits of music education are revealed in many studies. This article briefly lists 12 benefits of the value of music education, some of which relate to 21st century skills. In addition, users have access to a list of other music...
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The Benefits of Art Education

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
As research continues to show, art education is beneficial to the academic success of students. This short but concise article points out why art education is essential in todays world.
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Building Creative Capacities for the 21st Century [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief but enlightening article in pdf format about a successful worker in a bank. The skills he developed while studying the arts are what are attributed to his success.
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Art Wonders

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Can portraits talk? What's in a landscape? How do artists make furniture? ArtWonders helps young learners ask and answer the kinds of questions that make observing art an interactive experience.
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Storytelling to Assess Speaking and Listening

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
An effective use of rubrics that encourages the student storyteller how to determine if his/her audience is listening. Learn about the different listening skill rubrics, storytelling rubrics and a self-assessment guide that asks the...
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor: North Carolina: Student Science Enrichment Program

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The provides creative science enrichment activities for students in the 6th through 12th grades. It also provides lesson plans and resources for teachers and a special section on "Wildlife of the Alligator River" that features stories,...
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 10: Interpretation and Meaning

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Using the lyrics, music and video of a selected song (example used here is 'One' by the Irish group U2), students will explore the ways in which words, music and visual images interact to create meaning. Students will analyze the...
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Sketch Up

For Teachers 9th - 10th
SketchUp is a program that allows the user to use their creative talents through design in 3D. SketchUp is offered free to educators and is targeted toward K-12 education.
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Where There Be Dragons: Learning Adventures Abroad

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers students and adults learning opportunities through off the beaten path, small group expeditions to counties in Asia, Central America and South America. Trips are rugged,, creative and engaging journeys that combine...
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Alliance for Young Artists and Writers: The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about opportunities for talented young artists and writers in grades 7 through 12 to be recognized for their creativity and hard work from the organization that sponsors the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Learn about...
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Judging Student Created Web Pages

For Students 9th - 10th
Some questions to think about when assessing student work in the form of Web pages. This information is taken from judges of educational web sites.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Celebrating Fall

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Explore the autumn scene while learning math, literacy, and science at the same time! These fall-themed resources highlight ways to make traditional fall activities - like visiting the apple orchard, going on nature hikes, and collecting...
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The Center for the Study of Technology and Society

For Students 9th - 10th
This online magazine offers the latest news and information concerning the relationship between society and available technologies.