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Constructing Critical Literacy Practices Through Technology Tools and Inquiry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This journal article examines how the use of technology has helped to promote critical thinking and creativity. The article includes examples specifically focused on Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451."
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Atlas Mission: 7 Creative Development Activities for Preschoolers to Inspire

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Children are born creative. However, these pint-sized artists need a little guidance to channel all that creativity into something productive. This article lists 7 super fun creative development activities for preschoolers to help...
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Atlas Mission: 7 Kindergarten Creative Thinking Activities That Are Fun for Kids

For Teachers Pre-K - K
With so much emphasis put on classwork, common core curriculum, and even homework, creative thinking can get pushed to the bottom of the barrel for kids, even kindergarteners. Here are 7 activities to inspire creativity.
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Medium: 35 Quotes on Design That Will Fuel Up Your Creativity

For Students 2nd - 8th
A collection of quotes on design and creativity that can inspire students and ignite discussions about what design is and how creativity goes into the design of everyday objects.
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Duke University: Myths, Legends, and Creativity

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Resource dispels the myths often associated with creativity and counterbalances them with the reality of what creative behaviors are. (Published June 30, 2006)
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Bright Horizons: Nurturing Creativity & Imagination for Child Development

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Imagination is critical in child development. Find tips to help nurture and encourage creativity in your kids!
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Creating Minds: Age and Creativity

For Students 9th - 10th
According to this article, when we are young we have our greatest creative potential. As we grow older our creativity declines. Discussed here is how to stay creative as we get older.
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Medium: Why Every Kindergarten and First Grade School Day Should Begin With...

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This article was written to validate and be a voice for like-minded educators and families who want their children to have more time during the school day for inquiry and imaginative play. This article includes a list of articles, blogs,...
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The Innovation Journal: Measuring Creativity

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a paper that discusses the ways of creating a test for measuring creativity. It discusses why a test for creativity might be needed as well as concepts related to creativity such as knowledge, skills, and intelligence.
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The Second Principle: Killing or Fostering Creativity in Children

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Listed on this page are the things we as parents and teachers inadvertently do to discourage creativity in children and ideas for how to foster creativity.
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Sim Professional Development and Enterprise Learning: 3 Reasons Why Systems Thinking Is Important for Innovation

For Students 9th - 10th
In a world where interconnectedness and complexity hold sway, systems thinking offers a disciplined approach to make sense of the world and find innovative solutions to problems. How can a disciplined systems thinking approach lead...
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University of Chicago Libary: How to Develop Student Creativity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An excellent article about how you can help develop your students to think more creatively. It includes a list of 25 things you can do to develop creativity.
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Roots of Action: How Kids Learn to Take Initiative and Overcome Challenges

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learning to take initiative is a behavior that helps kids navigate their lives with courage and optimism. This article provides insights into how children learn to take initiative. Parents and teachers are key mentors in the process. A...
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Caro Clarke: Pacing Anxiety, or How to Stop Padding and Plot!

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the seventh installment of a series giving advice to the author who is new to writing novels. This article focuses on how to take your characters and use them and their conflicts to develop the plot of your story. W.9-10.3b...
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Virtual Salt: Creative Thinking Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Site provides information to help with generating ideas that would assist in group decision making. Detailed and thorough account.
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Aventis Learning Group: Systems Thinking: The What, Why, When and How

For Students 9th - 10th
Systems thinking is a holistic approach to analysis that focuses on the way that a system's constituent parts interrelate and how systems work over time and within the context of larger systems. It is particularly useful in addressing...
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Kaboom: Creative Expression

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Creative expression helps children articulate their feelings and thoughts. Encouraging creative expression is easy in both indoor and outdoor play spaces. This article discusses how art, music, and dance can encourage creative expression.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Creative Commons and Open Source

For Students 9th - 10th
After creative work has been copyrighted, licensing under Creative Commons, Open Source, or Public Domain allows digital information to be widely shared while not being compromised and maintaining attribution.
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Khan Academy: Dante's Divine Comedy in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Art

For Students 9th - 10th
Because of Dante's image-driven descriptions in "Divine Comedy", many artists have sought to illustrate his text through a wide variety of media. This essay will look at two outstanding examples of how Dante's words fed the creative...
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New Scientist: Rhyme and Reason: The Victorian Poet Scientists

For Students 9th - 10th
This article discusses the connections many Victorian scientists made between the scientific world and the world of creative expression. The author uses quotations from poems by these scientists, and provides links to the complete poems.
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Innovation News Network: Sustainable Innovation and the Role of Interdisciplinary Collaboration

For Students 9th - 10th
Florent Allais from AgroParisTech speaks about the importance of combining biotechnologies, green chemistry, and downstream processes when fostering sustainable innovation. This is an example of the very real benefits of...
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Pbs: Encouraging Self Expression Through Art

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
You can encourage a child's self-expression through process-oriented art: simply put, art that is based on exploration and allows different outcomes. This article outlines the do's and don'ts for encouraging self-expression and...
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Improve Your Creative Thinking by Drawing Mind Maps

For Students 9th - 10th
One way to help your creative process is to use mind maps. This article provides information about mind mapping and how it can help you discover new connections you may otherwise never have seen.
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Creativity: Method or Magic?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An essay which explains what is and what is not creativity. By understanding what the creative process is, you will be able to properly invoke the creative thinking skills from within your students.

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