Creative Writing: The Really Long List
Remember this book? It first came out in 1990 and inspired countless teachers to have their students make their own Really Long Lists of things
Remember this book? It first came out in 1990 and inspired countless teachers to have their students make their own Really Long Lists of things
You can have a lot of spun with foonerisms. Kids love to stead rories with spoonerisms. They are also a wood gray to get kids
I found this great Heart Maps project at Creative Literacy. I love this project because: It is such a clear, graphic representation of what is
mail ~ shoe ~ lunch What do these three words have in common? TriBonds or, as it is sometimes called, the Game of Threes is
This is a great activity for flexible thinking, as kids must let go of their own ideas, to some extent, and work with their classmates’
Watching a movie after reading the book is a wonderful way to encourage students to think critically about how each medium presented roughly the same
Here is a fun game for practicing symmetry. The game can be played in pairs or as a whole class, and it’s based on the
The story below is about a third grader presenting her independent project to the class: “Ummmm, I don’t really know why that picture is there.
You have a routine for everything – what your students should do when they get to class, how they should line up when the bell
How many unique pentominoes can you generate with five squares? Exploring that question is a great way to introduce a unit on pentominoes. Using pentominoes
The Soma Cube was invented by Peit Hein in 1936. It is a 3-D puzzle made from seven irregular shapes, each made from three or
Fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration can be thought of as the cornerstones of creative thinking. Flexibility is a bit like fluency in that we are
