Weekly Creativity Tips

Here you will find our weekly tips on bringing creativity into your classrooms. The tips will be listed below in chronological order, with the newest post on top.

You will be able to comment on these items to let us know if you have tried them out and what your students thought about them.

January 2020 Creativity Tip

For this month’s Creativity Tip, we are providing a list of a few tech tools designed to promote creativity in your classroom.  The tools come from technology/creativity sessions at the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) Conference in Albuquerque that...

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Concept mapping and Mind mapping

Teach learners to create concept or mind maps.  Maps can be wonderful tools to nurture creative and critical thinking.   A concept map (Novak, 1998) is a way to represent knowledge and show the relationship of ideas and concepts while mind-mapping...

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Teach students to Bend, Blend, and Break

In their book, The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World, Anthony Brandt and David Eaglemen identify three “B”s or three basic strategies that are at the root of all creative thinking: bending, breaking and blending.In blending, the brain combines...

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