Creative expression helps children articulate their feelings and thoughts. Encouraging creative expression is easy in both indoor and outdoor play spaces. This article discusses how art, music, and dance can encourage creative expression.

How can we as parents foster creativity and self-expression in our children? Peruse these ideas from PBS such as encouraging different types of creative play.

This problem expects students to choose an operation in response to a question about structure. A-SSE.A.2.

This resource accepts contributions from younger children, up through age 13. This page explains the process to follow when submitting contributions. Also at this site students will find a link to a sample issue.

This task provides a good opportunity for group work and class discussions where students generate and compare equivalent expressions. In class discussion, students should be asked to connect the terms of an expression with quantities...

The purpose of this task is to help young scholars see manipulation of expressions as an activity undertaken for a purpose. Aligns with A-SSE.B.3.

For this task, young scholars write expressions that describe the relationship between quantities. The task looks at the amount of gas produced by a given number of barrels of crude oil, the number of miles a vehicle can drive on a...

When we prompt our students to create art based on "self," how many of us get generic pictures or simple ideas? This game is designed to stretch each student's self list so that they have a wide variety of expressive ideas to choose from.

The purpose of this task is to introduce the idea of exponential growth and then connect that growth to expressions involving exponents. It illustrates well how fast exponential expressions grow. Young scholars who are just learning...

The purpose of this task is to ask students to write expressions and to consider what it means for two expressions to be equivalent. Aligns with 6.EE.A.

The purpose of this task is to solve some expressions requiring fractional exponents in the modeling context of planetary motion. Aligns with N-RN.A.2.

This task asks students to examine an expression that has a denominator represented by the addition of two fractions. Each of those fractions has a denominator that is a variable. They are asked to analyze the structure of the expression...

This task compares the usefulness of different forms of a quadratic expression. Students have to choose which form most easily provides information about the maximum value. Aligns with A-SSE.B.3.

The goal of this task is to use appropriate tools to compare graphs of several functions. In addition, students are asked to study the structure of the different expressions to explain why these functions grow as they do. Aligns with...

At the end of this lesson, students will reflect on and express concepts and ideas associated with unfamiliar images and art styles. They will increase visual awareness and appreciation for a variety of styles, subject matter, and...

Intergrating dance into your social studies lesson on the Navajo culture will give your young scholars a glimpse into another way of life. They will use their knowledge of loom weaving, Native Americans, and creative dance to express...

Students learn about the periodic table and how pervasive the elements are in our daily lives. After reviewing the table organization and facts about the first 20 elements, they play an element identification game. They also learn that...

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.

A lesson plan for exploring the use of multimedia presentation techniques in effective storytelling. Design, write, storyboard, and create a multimedia presentation of a story about an important family event or memory.