Creativity is the ability to apply creative thought processes to create something of value.
Innovation and entrepreneurship is the capacity to create and apply new knowledge in innovative and entrepreneurial ways to create new products or solve complex problems.
This site offers visual and performing art lessons from kindergarten through high …
This site offers visual and performing art lessons from kindergarten through high school. Many of the lessons can be integrated into core subjects such as Math, Language Arts, Science, or Social Studies. Opportunities for creativity are some of the building blocks of child development and concept acquisition. Lessons are categorized by grade for easy retrieval.
Book Creator is a simple tool for creating awesome digital books. This …
Book Creator is a simple tool for creating awesome digital books. This site is a great way to bring creativity to your classroom or home. Students create, read and publish using a set of tools that is simple to use. Features include: - 50 hand-picked fonts to choose from - Add images or take your own photos - Drop in video or music, or even record your voice - Use the pen tool to draw or annotate - Use shapes, arrows and emojis to express your ideas - Portrait, square, or landscape book layouts
Students combine text, images, audio and video to create: Interactive stories Digital portfolios Research journals Poetry books Science reports Instruction manuals ‘About me’ books Comic adventures
This lesson helps define imagination and creativity and explain how it helps …
This lesson helps define imagination and creativity and explain how it helps us learn and about ourselves and the world. Caine created a massive cardboard arcade and is the inspiration behind this lesson.
Students learn about power generation using river currents. A white paper is …
Students learn about power generation using river currents. A white paper is a focused analysis often used to describe how a technology solves a problem. In this literacy activity, students write a simplified version of a white paper on an alternative electrical power generation technology. In the process, they develop their critical thinking skills and become aware of the challenge and promise of technological innovation that engineers help to make possible. This activity is geared towards fifth grade and older students and computer capabilities are required. Some portions of the activity may be appropriate with younger students. CAPTION: Upper Left: Trey Taylor, President of Verdant Power, talks about green power with a New York City sixth-grade class. Lower Left: Verdant Power logo. Center: Verdant Power's turbine evaluation vessel in New York's East River. In the background is a conventional power plant. Upper Right: The propeller-like turbine can be raised and lowered from the platform of the turbine evaluation vessel. Lower Right: Near the East River, Mr. Taylor explains to the class how water currents can generate electric power.
The Institute for Humane Studies has partnered with the authors of the …
The Institute for Humane Studies has partnered with the authors of the textbook Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should Know about Wealth Creation and Prosperity to help teach students why economic understanding is essential for life in today's society. With videos and quiz question corresponding to each element, this collection can be used as a study guide for "Part 1: Twelve Key Elements of Economics".
Thom Gibson shares his ideas on how to design student jobs for …
Thom Gibson shares his ideas on how to design student jobs for your classroom community. This fits into Distribution of Leadership in our REORDER framework and fosters developing 21st century competencies or skills.
Click "Take the test" in the bottom left corner to get started. …
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A short and quirky personality style test created by Adobe to showcase varieties of creativity.
The quiz will outline your creative strengths, untapped potential and your ideal way of contributing. For example "The Artist" has the strength of being able to bring ideas and concepts to life; but untapped is fearlessness in expression and this person make a good producer.
Types are the artist, thinker, adventurer, maker, producer, dreamer, innovator, and visionary. Each type includes a goofy animated character that represents the type, there is a description of each type, and who they work best with.
This would be a great addition to a learner profile, or to explore when examining creativity. We can all be creative - just in different ways. This is a great way to illustrate that and spark some rich discussion in your classroom!
Sun West Creativity Middle Years 6-9 Guidebook - please use the table …
Sun West Creativity Middle Years 6-9 Guidebook - please use the table of contents to navigate this guidebook. Also, we invite you to share resources you think would be suitable for this guidebook with any of the author's of this guidebook.
Project: The students were given the task to write a narrative story. …
Project: The students were given the task to write a narrative story. Grade 3/4’s theme was adventure and the grade 5/6’s theme was mystery. We had covered the two writing traits - Ideas and Organization and therefore that was our focus for this writing task. Students took their stories through the writing process and included a hand drawn cover page for their published story. Hollywood then called and was looking to turn their stories into a big screen production. We kicked this excitement off with a PowerPoint presentation sharing the details of their assignment. Students used the iMovie app to create movie trailers promoting their stories. We hosted a red carpet event – Kenaston Golden Globes where we viewed all of the movie trailers and a variety of awards were handed out. The day was full of excitement with everyone dressed up in their formal wear. Popcorn and drinks were served during the movie premier. Everyone was pleased to receive a Golden Globe Award.
Students discover how engineers can use biomimicry to enhance their designs. They …
Students discover how engineers can use biomimicry to enhance their designs. They learn how careful observation of nature becoming a nature detective, so to speak can lead to new innovations and products. In this activity, students reverse engineer a flower to glean design ideas for new products.
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating …
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.
DrawTogether is a growing, evolving show/newsletter/community/space for kids and grown-ups who want …
DrawTogether is a growing, evolving show/newsletter/community/space for kids and grown-ups who want to draw, get creative, curious and connect with the world around us.
Sign up to start receiving the free DrawTogether newsletter once a week, usually on Fridays: videos, podcasts, activities and other heart/art fun for kids.
Explore the site and find lots of fun ideas of how to create awesome things!
In the past, Eatonia Colony School published a school newspaper monthly. It …
In the past, Eatonia Colony School published a school newspaper monthly. It was decided that while focusing on creativity and collaboration, we would bring the paper to life again! This project was a collaborative school effort. Every student in grades 1-8 participated and had a job to do. We brainstormed ideas together and put our two oldest girls in charge of being the editors. We set deadlines and every grade/student was in charge of designing their own pages. We have included pictures of our process as well as the cover, table of contents and pictures from our finished product! We have also included a lesson plan and our assessment rubrics.
First, we studied fairytales and fractured fairytales. We learned about the elements …
First, we studied fairytales and fractured fairytales. We learned about the elements of each story and compared them. During the learning process students were practicing a variety of reading comprehension strategies: predicting, inferring, compare and contrast, main idea, theme etc. After learning about all the elements of fractured fairytales my students took their shot at writing them. They were split into partners based on the fairytale that they wanted to fracture. Then they had to work through the five stages of the writing process. First, the partners had to plan their fractured fairytale. They were given the choice of what kind of graphic organizer to use to begin their planning and brainstorming. They had to plan their plot, setting, problem and solution. Then the students worked through the rough draft, editing and revising stages of the writing process. Throughout those phases they were completing self-assessment checklists to keep on track with their work. Lastly, they wrote a good copy of their fractured fairytale and illustrated it. This also included a cover page and a back page. The back page included a teaser to hook the reader.
I have been doing expert writing with the older students for a …
I have been doing expert writing with the older students for a few years now as an independent English Language Arts project while I am working with the younger students. However, I have been disappointed with the variety and creativity in presentations. I give them a list of possible formats and they choose the topic they are interested in researching and how they want to present what they have learned. Only 1 or 2 have been brave enough to deviate from the traditional written report, or poster. My plan was to do a variety of creativity projects from the Destination Imagination series to foster creativity and get them in the right frame of mind before doing their projects. I insisted that they had to choose a format other than a written report, or poster.
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