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Brainstorming: A Strategy for Creative Productivity

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this brainstorming activity, students read directions on how to brainstorm with a group or as an individual. Students read 7 tips total.
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The Four Elements of a Good Poster

For Students 5th - 10th
In this poster worksheet, students fill out a brainstorming chart, advertising elements, and more, to incorporate into their poster. Students complete 4 activities.
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Signs, Signs, Everywhere a Sign

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students brainstorm and discuss the strategies they use to read text books. In this reading text books lesson plans, students help each other on how to organize text book reading.
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Clustering Worksheet

For Students 6th - 8th
In this clustering worksheet, students create a list of items under each of nine headings.  Students use the lists to generate ideas from which to find a potential topic for a composition.
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Lesson 3 : Important People and Places In Our Community

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students discuss important people and places in their community. In this community lesson plan, students brainstorm together and create a web that shows the important places and people. They choose one important place to draw and write...
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Living in the City: Brainstorming Activity

For Students 4th - 8th
In this city vs. rural living worksheet, students consider the pros and cons of living in each place as they record their thoughts and ideas.
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Family Picnic: Brainstorming

For Students 1st - 3rd
For this family picnic brainstorming worksheet, students color a picture of a picnic scene. Students write a list of 16 things needed for a picnic.
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Packing for a Trip: Brainstorming

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this packing for a trip brainstorming worksheet, students color a picture of suitcases. Students write a list of 8 things to take on a trip and 8 things to leave at home.
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Olympic Engineering

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the concept of problem solving using the Olympics as the topic. In this problem solving instructional activity, students learn how engineers brainstorm, and come up with design ideas that are difficult to accomplish...
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Employment: Brainstorming

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this employment brainstorming worksheet, students color a picture of a man working. Students write a list of 16 types of jobs.
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Noun Brainstorm

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this noun worksheet, students write all the words they can think of that fit the category of the rain cloud. Students write the nouns on the lines.
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ABC Brainstorm

For Students 6th - 12th
For this brainstorming worksheet, students complete the ABC Brainstorm graphic organizer by listing ideas about a specific topic illustrating their ability to expand a concept through brainstorming.
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Writing: Planning Your Writing Worksheet 2--Example 2

For Students 4th - 6th
In this brainstorming learning exercise, students create a spider diagram by placing themselves in the middle and making branches with all the things they enjoy doing or phrases describing themselves.
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Comparisons And You

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils examine the structure and language of sentences that are used for making comparisons. They drill through a series of sentences for a model and practice. Then students write sentences that make comparisons after brainstorming the...
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The Giving Tree

For Teachers K - 5th
Students investigate the virtue of kindness and giving by conducting a children's literature study of "The Giving Tree". They make a list of words to describe emotions in the story and write a journal daily while looking at the virtues...
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Halloween Tales

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students work in groups to brainstorm and generate a list of Halloween characters, descriptive terms, and action words. Individuals choose a pre-determined writing prompt to enter into a Word document and complete the story using the...
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Making Picasso Faces

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders read stories about Picasso and see pictures of his work. Students brainstorm all the different kind os faces that one can make (clown, alien, etc...). They then get two pieces of drawing paper to make two different faces...
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Brainstorming Techniques

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students practice brainstorming techniques. They use pictures to begin the discussion and write the ideas they brainstorm. They also review adjectives.
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Brainstorming

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students brainstorm, sequence topics, and write "how-to" paragraphs about real-life topics.
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Expository Writing

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create Inspirations webs with graphics, and write five paragraph essays.
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LET'S GET ORGANIZED

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars use organizational skills and involve youth in the planning of their school and home recycling project. They brainstorm to find the most efficient way to set up a recycling collection system
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Brainstorm This!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students discuss the advantages and types of brainstorming as a prewriting tool. They experiment with different styles of brainstorming and produce prewriting samples for assessment.
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Brainstorm Fairies- Graphic Organizer

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this brainstorming worksheet, students are given a set of 7 different colored clouds surrounding a picture of a fairy. Worksheet is a generic graphic organizer for brainstorming purposes.
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Writing Your Own Spiritual

For Students 4th - 8th
In this slavery learning exercise, students brainstorm words that describe slavery and then write their own spiritual about slavery. Students may write as many words as they would like.