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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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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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Atlas Mission: The 8 Best Problem Solving Strategies for the Preschool Mind

For Teachers Pre-K - K
A Kindergarten teacher offers 8 strategies for fostering problem-solving in the classroom. A free app is available to download.
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Creating Systems to Reinforce Creativity

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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.
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University of Central Florida: Mathematics Classroom Uses for the Digital Camera

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This site has a few creative lesson plans on using the digital camera in a mathematics classroom. Includes geometry and measurement activities. (The link for the counting book does not work in archived version of site.)
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Creating Minds: Creating a Creative Climate

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Written from a business perspective, this sites ideas about creating a creative atmosphere can easily be adapted to any classroom.
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Edutopia

Edutopia: How to Use Play for Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Play is a primary and integral mode through which children make sense of the world, and that it is essential to their development and well-being. This article offers ideas on how to balance play and academic expectations in your classroom.
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The Kennedy Center: Lesson: Navajo Weaving

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Intergrating dance into your social studies activity on the Navajo culture will give your students a glimpse into another way of life. They will use their knowledge of loom weaving, Native Americans, and creative dance to express these...
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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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Using Sketchbooks in Primary Schools

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Get your young students involved in the creative process by introducing sketchbooks in your classroom. Not sure where to start? This article will give you great beginning tips on how to get young imaginations flowing.
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The Kennedy Center: Lesson: Weather and Wind

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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...
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Illustrative Mathematics: Making a Clock

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learning to tell time is a skill that needs to be practiced often in the classroom. For this activity, the students sit in a large arc/rainbow in order to make a giant clock to practice telling time. Instructions for making the clock,...
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Alex: Clay Animation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This is a hands-on, technology-based project to incorporate creative writing and technology in the classroom. Clay Animation is one way of presenting a story in a nonverbal way. [Requires QuickTime.]
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Read Write Think: Put That on the List: Collaboratively Writing a Catalog Poem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using the structure of a list poem, students combine creative expression with poetic techniques and language exploration in order to write group poems about what really matters in their lives.