Ten lesson plans are described to encourage creative work and thought in talented art students. Lessons include emphases on brainstorming, fluency, value clarification, logic elaboration, and role playing. (CL)

The third of three reports on Project SEARCH (Search for Exceptional Abilities Reachable among Children with Handicaps) contains 28 lesson plans designed to develop the creative/productive thinking processes in handicapped children. It is explained that the activities are the products of cooperation between professional artists and special…

The document presents information on activities designed to foster growth in creativity and upper level thinking of secondary gifted students. An introductory section covers instructional models, including Guilford's Structure-of-Intellect Model and Krathwohl's Affective Taxonomical Model. Activities are described in terms of objectives,…

The unit on nonverbal communication is designed for presentation to elementary, middle, and junior high school gifted students. An introductory section lists four unit objectives leading to awareness of the nonverbal communication transmitted by students themselves and by others; expression and understanding of the nonverbal messages of gestures,…