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Infinite Innovations Ltd.: Free Brainstorming Training

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Bubbl.us is a free online application that allows users to brainstorm online then save them, email them and share with friends.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Design Step 3: Brainstorm Possible Solutions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Engineering Brainstorming

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Brainstorming

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[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.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Collaborative Prewriting and Drafting

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A very useful lesson that incorporates the process of collaboration to elementary students. Students brainstorm and use prewriting strategies to write a group story.
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Cambridge Rindge & Latin School

Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Creating Subtopic Headings

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An excellent tip sheet on how to group information after brainstorming and prewriting.
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Tom Richey

Ethos3: Wake Up Brain!

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Generating Ideas and Questions About a Research Topic

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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....
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Future Flights!

For Teachers 5th - 7th
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...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Comparison and Contrast Essays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: I've Been Assigned a Paper, Now What?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: I Just Got Assigned a Paper, Now What?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Write It: Memoir

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The Writing Process: Generate Ideas and Questions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[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:...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Write It: Journalism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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,...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Myth Writing Workshop With Jane Yolen

For Students 6th - 8th
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.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Prepare to Write

For Students 9th Standards
Prepare to write by brainstorming and determining the focus.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Keepers of the Gate Journal and Brainstorm

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: All About Alliteration: Responding to Literature Through Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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....
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Prewriting: Dialogue

For Students 9th - 10th
A six-slide presentation introducing how to have a dialogue in order to brainstorm ideas during the prewriting stage of the writing process.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Finding and Selecting a Topic

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Curated OER

Write Design: Graphic Organizers: Brainstorm

For Students 9th - 10th
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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