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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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Techniques for Creative Thinking

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Creative Thinking: Three Basic Principles

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Understanding these three basic principles of creative thinking can help teachers focus on ways to enhance and encourage creative thinking in the classroom.
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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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Read Write Think: Creative Outlining?from Freewriting to Formalizing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Contains plans for five 50-minute lessons that ask students to write literary analysis essays about Edgar Allen Poe's ?The Fall of the House of Usher.? In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to...
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Infotoday: Digital Storytelling Finds Its Place in Class

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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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Scholastic

Scholastic: How to Promote Creative Thinking

For Teachers Pre-K - K
As teachers, we play an important role in supporting children's ability in art, dramatic expression, and creative responses to problems. Creative power increases a young child's desire to learn and supports intellectual development. This...
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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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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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John F. Kennedy Center

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

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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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.