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Dambekalns, Lydia – 1997
One of the most interesting challenges facing educators today is how to engage students in meaningful study of the environment in which they live. This paper presents the benefits of studying scientific data from an aesthetic point of view. The visual display of the earth's surface through aerial photographs and satellite map images was used as…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Creative Activities, Design, Earth Science
Rowland, Elizabeth, Comp.; Molotsky, Leonard, Comp. – 1994
This guide encourages a learning environment that allows for creativity. Creative theory, assessment, and talent identification information is given. Student activities are presented to encourage creative problem solving, dispel myths and misunderstandings about creativity, provide exercises in brainstorming, creative thinking, and making cross…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Creative Activities, Creative Development, Creative Thinking
Reeder, Dan – 1984
This book outlines a nontraditional approach to papier mache and a process called "cloth mache" with fifth- and sixty-grade students. The volume describes a process called "cloth mache," a technique neither widely known or practiced. By combining the two media, a new dimension of sculpture is opened to the student. The paper…
Descriptors: Art, Art Activities, Art Education, Art Expression
Binder, Jude – 1989
This paper describes the work of a teacher at the Heartwood Dance Center, a school of dance and related arts in rural Calhoun County, West Virginia. The teacher also conducts freelance workshops in local schools of the region, where people are isolated and incomes are generally low. The extent to which children are talented is partially dependent…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Teaching, Dance, Dance Education
Miller, Harold J. – 1987
The Miller Motivation Scale is a 160-item computer scored scale. It was developed to measure quickly and easily and display the motivational profile of the client. It has eight subscales. Five subscales measure encouragement, self-fulfillment and social interest. They are called Creative, Innovative, Productive, Cooperative, and Power. Three…
Descriptors: Attention, Behavior Rating Scales, Computer Assisted Testing, Concurrent Validity
Huse-Inman, Kathy – 1980
Designed to provide an alternative to the book report, this booklet presents ideas for students to use in responding to books they have read. These ideas may help to get students to react to their reading, to stretch their minds, to learn to think as independent human beings, and to use their imaginations in experiencing literature. The 152 ideas…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Creative Activities
Jaben, Twila H. – 1986
Arguing that listening is a skill that should be taught systematically in the schools, this paper presents a rationale and strategies for implementing listening instruction in the classroom. The paper first contrasts convergent and divergent thinking, noting that creativity and problem solving are in this latter mode. Next, it examines definitions…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Convergent Thinking, Creative Activities, Creativity
Frank, Charlotte; And Others – 1985
This curriculum guide was compiled to help secondary school art teachers prepare lessons that fulfill both the New York state recommendations and the New York City requirements for high school graduation and to provide ideas for use in elective art classes. Seven chapters describe specific art fields, and each chapter is subdivided into units of…
Descriptors: Art, Art Activities, Art Education, Creative Activities
McIntyre, Margie – 1982
The Action-Communication-Expression program, an extension of a speech communication class in a Houston (Texas) high school, involves visual and concrete communication, such as photography, script writing, and filmmaking. Students in two speech classes work in small groups of four or five, independently of the teacher, after receiving initial…
Descriptors: Advertising, Course Content, Creative Activities, Creative Expression
Oswego County School Library System, Mexico, NY. – 1985
This document comprises the materials used in the administration of the fifth annual Oswego County (New York) storytelling contest for students in grades 3-8. The District Liaison's Packet contains copies of all materials used, including contest guidelines; a contest timetable; judging criteria; hints on storytelling; a bibliography; checklists…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Competition, Creative Activities, Educational Administration
Bondi, Edith F. – 1985
The purpose of this study was to design a strategy for teaching young children the information expressed in words of selected songs. Out of five classes of from 25 to 30 seven-year-old students, 86 students were selected for observation. The investigator chose 18 songs from a song textbook to be taught for the first 12 weeks of school. During the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Creative Activities, Creative Dramatics, Creative Writing
National School Boards Association, Washington, DC. – 1978
The bulk of this report is a digest of "Coming to Our Senses: The Significance of the Arts in American Education," the 1976 product of the blue ribbon Arts, Education, and Americans Panel chaired by David Rockefeller, Jr. The chapters reproduced here concentrate on what is being done in art education in public elementary and secondary…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Art Education, Art Teachers, Community Resources
Mardenborough, Teresa; St. Sauver, Dennis – 1976
A teacher's guide and black line masters for student activity sheets for Hispanic cultural enrichment education are presented. Designed for students from elementary school through high school, the materials concern 12 short biographies of Americans of Hispanic descent. The subjects are successful contemporary personalities who have become famous…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Instructional Materials, Biographies, Creative Activities
PILCH, MARY M. – 1960
DIRECTED TOWARD PARENTS, EDUCATORS, AND OTHERS, THE BIBLIOGRAPHY AIMS TO IMPROVE THE OVERALL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM FOR TALENTED YOUTH. ITS DIVISIONS INCLUDE BASIC REFERENCES, ADMINISTRATION OF PROGRAMS FOR THE GIFTED, IDENTIFICATION OF THE GIFTED, LANGUAGE ARTS FOR THE GIFTED, THE LEARNING PROCESS, MATHEMATICS EDUCATION FOR THE GIFTED, MODERN…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Creative Activities, Curriculum Guides, Educational Improvement
Wooten, Vida Jo – Texas Outlook, 1968
Children will enjoy creative writing in the primary grades if they are given inspiration, time to write, and the opportunity to share their work with classmates. A second-grade class began a creative writing project by listening to poetry and selecting poems to memorize and recite. This stimulated and encouraged them to evaluate and to write…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Development, Creative Expression, Creative Teaching
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