Thinking- Creative

Creative thinking that encourages and promotes the generation of new ideas and solutions which take into account multiple contexts and perspectives. It leads to innovation and new ways of doing.

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📽 Video 📜 Worksheet 🤔 Activity/ Thinking Routine 🔗 Website / Link

Use braintorming and visual diagrams to generate new ideas and inquiries

IB: Visualizing Ideas 🔗🤔📜

DOVE Brainstorming 🔗🤔📜

IDEO U's Brainstorming Rules! 🔗🤔📜

KWL Chart 🔗🤔📜

Consider multiple alternatives, including those that might be unlikely or impossible

Question Ladder - I want to collect input from others by getting to the heart of what motivates people🔗🤔📜

Create novel solutions to authentic problems

TED Ed Lesson: Working backward to solve problems 🔗🤔📜📽

Design Thinking Challenge - Extraordinaires 🔗

Make unexpected or unusual connections between objects and/or ideas

Quest Artful Thinking - Make Connections when viewing art 🔗🤔

Visible Thinking Routine - Connect, Extend, Challenge 🔗🤔📜

Visible Thinking Routine - 321 Bridge 🔗🤔📜

IB: Visualizing Ideas 🔗🤔📜

Design improvements to existing machines, media and technologies

Design Thinking Challenge - Extraordinaires 🔗

DOVE Brainstorming 🔗🤔📜

Design new machines, media and technologies

Math City Map 🔗

Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products or processes

Visible Thinking Routines - Think, Puzzle, Explore 🔗🤔📜

Learning Loop - I want to develop a clear plan by improving upon what I’ve done before 🔗🤔📜

K-W-L Charts - Assessing What We Know/What We Still Want to Learn 🔗🤔📜

Alphabet Brainstorm 🔗🤔📜

Create original works and ideas; use existing works and ideas in new ways

Tate - Create like an Artist 🔗🤔

What is Blackout Poetry? Examples and Inspiration 🔗🤔📜

How To Sample Music: All You Need To Know 🔗🤔

Practise flexible thinking—develop multiple opposing, contradictory and complementary arguments

Visible Thinking Routines - What Makes You Say That? 🔗🤔📜

Practise visible thinking strategies and techniques

Many Visible Thinking Routines are available on VisibleThinkingPZ - there are also more on NoTosh and Facing History's websites 🔗🤔📜

Visible Thinking Routines - Creative Questions 🔗🤔📜

PZ Artful Thinking 🔗🤔📜

Generate metaphors and analogies

How to Write a Metaphor 🔗

Metaphorical Thinking: Using Comparisons to Express Ideas and Solve Problems 🔗

7 Tips for Creating (Poignant) Poetic Metaphors 🔗

TED Ed: The art of the metaphor - Jane Hirshfield 🔗🤔📜

TED-X: Dance your PhD 📽

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