A user-friendly resource book for teachers, Kaleidoscope of Ideas contains numerous classroom activities that are designed to help middle primary to junior secondary students develop creative thinking skills.
These practical and enjoyable activities require very little preparation and may be used in the classroom immediately. Covering topics that range from the everyday to larger global and more serious issues, each activity can be used as a tool to help the development of systematic creative thinking.
The hands-on activities in Kaleidoscope of Ideas will appeal to gifted and talented students, encouraging cooperative social skills, different techniques and approaches to creativity and more.
Table of Content
About this book
The process of creative thinking
A kaleidoscope of ideas!
Aardvarks to zircons: curiosity projects
Abracadabra words
Acronymania
Advertising
Auctioneer
BAR
Bumper stickers
Cartoons
Composer
Create a …
Curator
Designer
Devil’s advocate
Different endings
Experiments and surveys
Frankenstein
Graphic stories
How many can you think of?
How many ways?
Jeopardy
Landscaping
Links
Lucky dip
Mergers
Off-beat
Picture this!
PIN numbers
Plotting
PMI (Pluses, Minuses, Intriguing aspects)
Postcode artist
POSTER! Creative problem-solving
Private eye
Recipe parodies
Renovator’s delight
SAMs (Similes, Analogies, and Metaphors)
SCRUMPTIOUS
Sentencing
Shapemakers
Six Thinking Hats
Top five reasons
Tracking
What if …?
What’s one of these?
Windows of opportunity
Conclusion
About the author
About the author
Author, mentor and teacher Hazel Edwards OAM has been involved with gifted education as a Tournament of Minds problem-writer and judge, mentored interesting thinkers of all ages and is intrigued by the techniques of unconventional problem-solvers. Many of her published stories deal with ‘coping successfully with being different’ and with real-world problem solvers. Her best-known publication is the children’s picture book classic There’s a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake (1980), along with its sequels and adaptations.
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