Techniques that a social studies teacher can use to help students develop imagination, understanding, and divergent thinking are discussed. Also examined are meanings attached to the creative process and traits of creative people. (RM)

Short, creative thinking sessions can help fill the time between classes while encouraging students to develop all of their thinking processes. Activities are offered that require organizing, imagining, observing, patterning, and questioning skills. (DF)

Describes three major difficulties plaguing most discovery-learning teaching systems and presents a theoretical operational approach for offsetting these difficulties. (SL)

This book provides K-12 teachers with a series of lessons that promote the development of students' analytical, creative, and practical thinking skills. It is based on the theory of successful intelligence, which suggests that successful people use all three skills to achieve success. The book supplies educators with theories, techniques, lessons,…

A look at Multi Image Productions, a West Coast production firm staffed by four people whose average age is 25 and whose interest is multi-media. (Author)

Explains the effective use of paper bags to invite preschoolers' attention and participation in activities. Provides examples of the paper bag technique applied to language, science, and premath experiences as well as creative movement activities. (DP)

59 sixth grade boys and girls were randomly assigned to two treatment groups. E's were exposed to three creative thinking strategies for 360 minutes. Significant favourable effects of training were found on verbal fluency, flexibility and originality, but training by sex interaction effects only on verbal originality. (Author)

Author reviews both the major short-range and long-range predictive validity studies of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking and reports the main findings of a 12-year follow-up of a predictive validity study with high school students initiated in 1959. (Author/CB)

Long Island, New York, youngsters cast inhibitions to the wind and felt right at home with creative drama-as much a part of their daily schedule as math and reading. (Editor)

Presents results of action research which had the goal of producing concepts and topics that would permit students to get creatively engaged in mathematical analysis and problem solving. The method used, called Turtle Geometry,'' is concerned with programming a moving point to generate geometric forms. (DT)

Exercises utilizing metaphorical language served the purpose of improving free and innovative writing and speaking, although some of the empathetic and spontaneous responses of the oral were lacking in the written situation. (Author)