What can teachers to do encourage gifted students to exhibit creativity in the classroom? This article provides some suggestions and also list ways that adults often "kill" creativity in children.

One of the most important types of creative activity for young children is creative play. This article discusses the benefits of creative play and other ways to foster creativity in your classroom.

Project- and play-based learning are essential in the early grades to develop creative learning dispositions during the brain's most active period of synaptic growth. Here are five strategies that can be implemented in early learning...

This site has a few creative lesson plans on using the digital camera in a mathematics classroom. Includes geometry and measurement activities. (The link for the counting book does not work in archived version of site.)

The dramatic play center is a place students can go to pretend, imagine, and be creative. Students can pretend to be anyone and do anything! This is powerful for our little learners. It is a place that promotes high-level thinking,...

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...

An effective use of rubrics that encourages the student storyteller how to determine if his/her audience is listening. Learn about the different listening skill rubrics, storytelling rubrics and a self-assessment guide that asks the...

This is a hands-on, technology-based project to incorporate creative writing and technology in the classroom. Clay Animation is one way of presenting a story in a nonverbal way. [Requires QuickTime.]

After reading the story "Dear Mr. Henshaw" by Beverly Cleary, students will build an alarm system for something in the classroom, as the main character Leigh does to protect his lunchbox from thieves. Students will learn about alarms and...

The book "Chalk" by Bill Thompson is a book that inspires imagination within the students and the teacher. This lesson is one way to inspire imagination using this book in your classroom.

In this lesson plan from ArtsEdge, students focus on the ballet, "Nutcracker," while learning about storytelling through dance and movement. Provides assessment criteria, a list of sources and links to use for references.