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Infinite Innovations Ltd.: Free Brainstorming Training
A collection of free resources from a London-based developer of software that facilitates the process of brainstorming. Answers all the essential questions about brainstorming and includes many helpful brainstorming how-tos and sidebars...
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Bubbl.us: Brainstorming Made Simple
Bubbl.us is a free online application that allows users to brainstorm online then save them, email them and share with friends.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Design Step 3: Brainstorm Possible Solutions
Brainstorming is a team creativity activity that helps generate a large number of potential solutions to a problem. In this activity, students participate in a group brainstorming activity to generate possible solutions to their...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Engineering Brainstorming
Young scholars act as an engineering consulting firm with the task to design and sell their idea for a new vehicle power system. During the brainstorming activity (Generate Ideas), students determine and comprehend what type of...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Brainstorming
[Free Registration/Login Required] Several different examples of brainstorming: cluster/web, listing, circle graph, jot-chart/table. Has introduction, examples, and whole class brainstorming examples.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Collaborative Prewriting and Drafting
A very useful lesson that incorporates the process of collaboration to elementary students. Students brainstorm and use prewriting strategies to write a group story.
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Creating Subtopic Headings
An excellent tip sheet on how to group information after brainstorming and prewriting.
Tom Richey
Ethos3: Wake Up Brain!
This slideshow provides 5 innovative ways to brainstorm. Because our brains tend to be overstimulated and tired, it is best to warm them up before diving into a project.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Generating Ideas and Questions About a Research Topic
This lesson focuses on creating a research question including determining the purpose and audience, brainstorming a topic, researching the question for information, and refining and narrowing the question. W.9-10.7 Research....
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Future Flights!
This lesson is an exciting conclusion to the airplanes unit that encourages students to think creatively. After a review of the concepts learned, students will design their own flying machine based on their knowledge of the forces...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Comparison and Contrast Essays
This lesson focuses on the comparison and contrast essays; it defines new terms: compare/contrast essay, yin/yang Venn diagram, block comparison, and point by point comparison. It also provides a slideshow which defines and discusses the...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: I've Been Assigned a Paper, Now What?
This tutorial focuses on selecting and narrowing a topic for a literary paper. It offers a flow chart of the writing process and two videos brainstorming topics using a web-style graphic organizer for each of two novels: "To Kill a...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: I Just Got Assigned a Paper, Now What?
This lesson focuses on what to do after being assigned a paper; it provides the basic steps to writing a paper: brainstorm topics, organize your thoughts (Venn diagrams, tree diagram examples), conduct preliminary research, create a...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Write It: Memoir
Write It Memoir offers a complete writing workshop to develop your personal story. Search your memory through the brainstorming activities to launch your piece. Draft a map of the memories along with reading other models. As the process...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: The Writing Process: Generate Ideas and Questions
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students how to generate ideas and questions as a part of the writing process in five mini-lessons: Introduction, Writing the Persuasive Essay:...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Write It: Journalism
This workshop launches will launch students into the writing process. Read advice from Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Nigel Jaquiss, and read work from other students. The Sandwich Critique is an excellent way to peer review. Finally,...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Myth Writing Workshop With Jane Yolen
Well-known author Jane Yolen takes you step by step through the process of writing a myth. The site includes a Myth Brainstorming Machine to help get ideas flowing.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Prepare to Write
Prepare to write by brainstorming and determining the focus.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Keepers of the Gate Journal and Brainstorm
Students journal their thoughts and responses to the questions associated with the grand challenge question presented in the associated lesson. For the Generate Ideas" step, they answer the questions: "What are your initial ideas about...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: All About Alliteration: Responding to Literature Through Poetry
In this lesson, students will listen to a book, A My Name Is by Alice Lyne, and they will learn about alliteration and alliterative words. After reading the book, students will use print and online resources to brainstorm their own...
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Storm Board
Storm Board is an online brainstorming tool. Users can work collaboratively to put 'sticky notes' on a bulletin board, then organize them and assign them colours. Additional suggestions are offered from Edistorm based on what you post....
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Prewriting: Dialogue
A six-slide presentation introducing how to have a dialogue in order to brainstorm ideas during the prewriting stage of the writing process.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Finding and Selecting a Topic
This site provides five links to help students select a topic: The importance of choosing a good topic, your areas of expertise, your areas of interest, brainstorming, and scoping your topic.
Curated OER
Write Design: Graphic Organizers: Brainstorm
Lists and describes several types of graphic organizers which fall under the "brainstorming" mold, including synectics, webs, cerebral charts, and network trees.
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