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Thursday December 4, 2008
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Alphabet SoupCREATE - Creativity Activities
Overview
If you are like most educators, you value student creativity and see
strong connections between creativity and problem solving, communication skills, and other developmental assets. Creativity is a key component to any supportive learning environment and leads to high levels of student engagement.
Prerequisites
The desire to move your students through a series of activities designed to push their creative problems solving skills and provide them an opportunity to create new paths towards solving dilemnas. Be prepared to watch some of your most creative kids emerge as leaders.
Objectives
The objectives are simple, learn to successfully implement the following activities, which are available on this site and are designed to unleash creative problem solving skills amongst your students.
The following activities, which are available on this site, are designed to infuse creativity in the classroom in fun and thoughtful ways:
- Anti-Gravity
- Don’t Touch Me
- Drawbridge
- Hands Are Tied
- Moving Marbles
- Pass It
- Puzzling Problem
- Speed
- Structure
- Virtual Group Juggle
How to Take this Unit
As the instructional leader, you are in a position to review, learn, and use the activities found within this module with the kids in your program.
However, if you are participating in the professional development component of this program as well, you will need to complete the EDUCATOR ASSESSMENT ACTIVITY for this module to demonstrate your own understanding and successful implementation of the CREATE unit.
However, if you are participating in the professional development component of this program as well, you will need to complete the EDUCATOR ASSESSMENT ACTIVITY for this module to demonstrate your own understanding and successful implementation of the CREATE unit.
Course Duration
Each of the activities found within this unit can take between 20 to 90minutes to implement with kids depending upon the number of participants you have and whether or not you include the Academic and Social extension activities.