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Burns, Mary T. – Creative Child and Adult Quarterly, 1986
Educators need to develop teaching strategies that allow children to explore creative musical processes that will nurture musical skills, self-awareness, and imagination. A sequence of five lessons encompassing language arts and music demonstrates how students can develop creativity by writing haiku and then composing music to accompany the poems.…
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creativity, Haiku, Lesson Plans
Kruise, Carol Sue – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1987
This discussion of the need for learning activities which promote critical thinking skills, creativity, and affective growth in children uses Bloom's Taxonomy as a guide for designing such activities based on children's literature. Several examples of projects based on specific children's books are provided. (CLB)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Creative Development, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Enrichment
Hestad, Marsha; Avellone, Kathy – 1991
This 9-week curriculum unit on trees is designed for gifted students in grades 1-5. The lessons are designed for 40-minute classes meeting two or three times a week and stress the development of creative thinking skills, creative problem solving and decision making skills, and critical and logical thinking skills. Each of the 12 lesson plans…
Descriptors: Biology, Creative Development, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking
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Pearson, Erica – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1996
Five problem-based learning activities tested by fourth-grade gifted students are suggested. Each open-ended problem is intended to be worked on by a small group for 30 minutes. Student reactions are quoted and analyzed, noting that students became more willing to take risks, test the properties and limits of their materials, and learn from their…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Creative Development, Creative Thinking, Creativity
Tegano, Deborah W.; And Others – 1991
Ways by which teachers can enhance creativity skills of children in the classroom are addressed in this monograph. An overview of creativity first sets the stage for discussions on the child, curriculum, teacher, and environment. The goal is to show the many faces of the development of creativity in children and to recognize ways to enhance the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Creative Development, Creativity, Definitions
Wakefield, John F. – 1989
This study explores the usefulness of a creativity construct for arts education. It is hypothesized that an arts orientation is a valid personality construct, that this orientation is correlated with contrasting cognitive skills, and that these skills are manifested in creative behaviors. Sixty-five high school seniors were given the ACT Interest…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement
Valett, Robert E. – 1983
A practical guidebook of ideas, lesson materials, and related resources for developing imaginative and productive thinking skills of children is presented to assist teachers and parents. Emphasis is placed on the use of strategies and techniques that enhance originality, mental imagery, reverie, reflection, humor, novel playfulness, and divergent…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Development, Creative Thinking, Creativity
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Illinois State Univ., Normal. Dept. of Home Economics. – 1992
This curriculum guide, which was designed for an exploration/orientation course in home economics aimed at encouraging and developing personal creativity, contains the following materials: a course description, course objectives, background information for instructors, curriculum guide interpretation, an abbreviated course outline, a detailed…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Creative Development, Creative Thinking