Creativity

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have"-Maya Angelou

What is Creativity?

Thinking Creatively

Elaborate, refine, analyze, and evaluate original ideas to improve and maximize creative efforts

Working Creatively with Others

Develop, implement, and communicate new ideas to others effectively

Innovation and Creativity

Act on creative ideas to make a tangible and useful contribution to the field in which the innovation will occur

More about creativity:

http://www.nea.org/assets/docs/A-Guide-to-Four-Cs.pdf

http://psychlearningcurve.org/creative-teaching-and-teaching-creativity-how-to-foster-creativity-in-the-classroom/

Video Explaining Creativity in Classrooms

Music and Science Lesson

Lesson Plan on Vibrations

Science Standard:

(K-PS2-1) When objects touch or collide, they push on one another and can change motion.

Music Standard: (MU Cr 1)With guidance, explore and experience music concepts (such as beat and melodic contour).

2: Animal Habitats

Lesson Plan on Animal Habitats

2-LS4-1 Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.
2.VA:Cr1.2 Make art or design with various art materials and tools to explore personal interests, questions, and curiosity
2.VA:Re7.1 Perceive and describe aesthetic characteristics of one’s natural world and constructed environments.

Art, History, and SJ Integrated Lesson Plan

Art, Social Studies, and Social Justice Lesson Plan

3.2.1 Describe national identities, religious beliefs, customs, and various folklore traditions.
3.VA:CR.1 Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work
JU.3-5.11 I try and get to know people as individuals because I know it is unfair to think all people in a shared identity group are the same.

Dance Lesson and Slideshow

Dance Standard:

1.4: Expand the ability to incorporate spatial and time concepts in movement problems (e.g., select and combine three locomotor movements traveling in three different pathways and using three different tempos).

2.5: Perform dances to communicate personal meaning, using focus and expression.

A video of my presentation: The Tourdion in action!

The Tourdion

Movie on 2-18-20 at 12.11 PM.mov

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