Creativity

1. Creativity By Mrs. Hares

2. “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might discover and create.” Albert Einstein

3. Think about this quote for a minute. What do you think it says about the future? The past? What do you think it means? Do you agree with it? How do you feel when you read this quote?

4. Creative Goals • There are things at school and in life that you don’t know or understand yet. • Youshould be curious about those things. • On the stuff that you do know or understand, there should be a deeper level you express.

5. WHAT IS CREATIVITY? • Using the Frayer Diagram, work with your table to come up with a definition of creativity. You will have 2 minutes. • Creativity is the bringing into being something which did not exist before, either as a product, a process or a thought. • Creativity can also be changing something that already exists.

7. List 3 ways you are creative. • We are all creative every day because we are constantly changing the ideas which we hold about the world about us and our relationship with it. Creativity does not have to be about developing something new to the world, it is more to do with developing something new to ourselves. When we change ourselves, the world changes with us, both in the way that the world is affected by our changed actions and in the changed way that we experience the world. Creativity is a state of being, a way of meeting the challenges involved in bringing any project to completion. A five-year-old drawing a house can be just as creative as a fifty-year-old designing an office building.

8. WHAT IS CREATIVE THINKING? • Creative thinking is the process which we use when we come up with a new idea. It is the merging of ideas which have not been merged before. New ideas are formed by developing the current ones within our within our minds. Creative thinking means that you look at things in a new way. You seek out more than one solution to a problem, see things from a different perspective and continually contemplate different ways to do things.

9. HOW DOES CREATIVE THINKING WORK? • New ideas happen when two or more ideas are merged when they have never been merged before. It is the combining of two previously-uncombined thoughts, products or processes. Creative thinking techniques provide the method for deliberately combining ideas in ways which you would not normally come across or think about.

10. CREATIVE IDEAS • Creative ideas are • 1. flexible • 2. fluent • 3. original • 4. elaborative How has your definition of creative thinking changed today?

11. How Do You Think Creatively? Creativity isn’t always innate, sometimes there are “tricks” (stategies) to help us be creative. • One way to practice thinking creativily is brainstorming. Brainstorming allows our brains to think quickly and tap into connections about a topic.

12. Think Outside The Box Thinking outside the box is when we look at things from a different perspective. If you’re writing a story, try reading it backwards. In math, try drawing a picture. Discuss with your group other ways you can “think outside the box.”

13. Another trick is to use SCAMPER • SCAMPER – SCAMPER is a method of devising creative ways to change something. This is the method that J.K. Rowling used to invent the game of Quiddich. S - substitue C – Combine A – Adapt M – modify P – put to another use E – eliminate R – reverse or reaarance

14. WEB Resouces for Scamper • http://litemind.com/scamper/

15. How it works • SCAMPER works by providing a list of active verbs that you associate with your problem and hence create ideas. As they are all verbs, they are about doing, and so get you to think about action. • SCAMPER was defined by Robert Eberle, after an initial list from Brainstorming originator Alex Osborn.

16. S - substitute What can you substitute? What can be use instead? Who else instead? Other material? Other process? Other power, other place, sounds, forces? Instead of ___________I can _______.

17. C - combine • What can you combine or bring together somehow? What materials, features, processes, people, products can I combine? • I can bring together _______and ____to____.

18. A -Adapt • What can you adapt for use as a solution? What else is like this? What other idea does this suggest? Does the past offer an idea? What could I copy? Who could I emulate? • I can adapt______in this way___ to_____.

19. M - modify • What can you change about the item in some way? Add: time? More often? Stronger? Higher? Longer? Exaggerate? Take away: Remove? Smaller? Lower? Shorter? • I can change ___in this way to_____.

20. P – put to another use • How can I put the thing to different or other uses? New ways to use it as is? Other uses if it is modified? Who or what else might be able to use it? • I can re-use ____in this way ____by____>

21. E - eliminate • What can you eliminate? Remove something? Think of what might happen if you eliminated various parts. • I can eliminate ___by____.

22. R – reverse or rearrange • What can be rearranged in some way? Another pattern, layout, sequence? Revere he cause and effect, change the pace, change the schedule? • I can rearrange ____like this___so that___.

23. You try SCAMPER • Use the scamper sheet to create your own classroom. What would it be like.