This year we have 6 students in 3rd grade identified in creativity. The district has created a screening process and has testing in place that now helps us to identify those students who have a unique ability to "think outside the box." For most young students, they don't really know what that means so I have been working with them to explore what it means to be creative and how do you develop that gift. Our first week together, I asked them to answer a couple of questions to "get the juices flowing." They worked on a graphic poster to represent their ideas. What most of them believe right now is that creativty is connected to the arts (drawing, writing, music) but what I want them to realize is that their creativty can stretch into any area in life (science, math, sports.) They have some pretty good ideas to begin with. Here are some of their responses and a couple of pictures of them hard at work (more pictures on the photos page)... What is creativty? Creativty is thinking outside the box. And coming up with something no one would ever come up with. Where does creativty come from? In those people that have creativity it comes from the heart and the brain. Heart + brain = creativity
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