Lesson 1: Putting Ideas into Actions
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Welcome in to our final unit for our course, Teaching for Creativity! In this lesson, we'll be taking a look at how we can adapt lesson plans that already exist to teach for creativity, using the knowledge we have learned in previous units.
Let's Practice!
To begin, choose a lesson from the list below that interests you. Read through the lesson, and fill out important information in the graphic organizer, also linked below. How could you adapt this lesson plan so that the lesson is teaching for creativity?
Download the graphic organizer as a PDF
Download the graphic organizer in Google Slides
Lesson Plan Options:
- Author's Purpose Lesson Plan (2nd Grade)
- Layers of the Earth Lesson Plan (4th Grade)
- Surface Area of Prisms and Pyramids (6th Grade)
- Which Country Was to Blame for World War I Lesson Plan (10th Grade)
Self-reflect: How did you do with this activity? Was it easier or harder than you thought?
Adapting Our Own Lessons
Now that we've had some practice adapting lesson plans others have developed, we are going to practice adapting our own lesson plans. Think of a lesson from your repertoire that does not currently have an element of teaching for creativity. How might you be able to add something to it to allow for student creativity?
Please utilize the same graphic organizer template from above to complete this activity. You may want to consider downloading the checklist below to utilize as a reference for teaching for creativity for this activity, as well as other lessons you will conduct on your own in the future.
Download the Teaching for Creativity Checklist here!
Wrapping Up
Wonderful job! As we are nearing the end of this course, I hope that you have learned valuable information that you can begin to implement in your own classrooms. Futhermore, I hope that you have been inspired to continue developing your own creativity.
To wrap up this lesson, briefly describe how you chose to adapt one of your own lessons on the Google Form below. Your responses are completely anonymous. Please be sure to view the summary of responses after submitting your answer, to gain further inspiration from your peers!
Teaching for Creativity Lesson Adaptation Form
Whenever you're ready, please join me in our final lesson, What If?
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