Creative and Critical Thinking

Creative and Critical Thinking

Creativity

Creativity is defined as the tendency to generate or recognize ideas, alternatives, or possibilities that may be useful in solving problems, communicating with others, and entertaining ourselves and others.

Creativity in my classroom

Students are given problems to solve with unusual materials and asked to come up with their own solutions and explainations

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Critical Thinking

Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.

Bungee Jumping Barbie

Critical thinking in my classroom. The students are given Barbie's and rubberbands. They must think through, measure and process how to get Barbie as close to the ground as possible without smashing her head.

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