
Creative Thinking Unit: 10 lessons with PPT and student journals
Your students can enhance their creative problem-solving and divergent thinking abilities. In this unit, they’ll learn to tap into their own unique brand of creative thinking and cultivate strategies to help them be more creative:Through this 10-lesson unit, students will experiment with approaches that help them meet the following goals: I can define creativity and its relevance to my life. I have strategies for sparking my imagination when I get stuck. I can identify and apply the four stages of creativity. I experiment with practices to enhance divergent thinking. I can see familiar things in new and interesting ways. I know how to examine problems from different perspectives. I can use warm-ups to prime my brain to think creatively. I know how to use the 7 mental states of creativity to innovate. I can generate creative solutions to problems I care about. I know how to share and talk about my creative output. These lessons are designed to be no-prep or minimal prep. You don’t hav