Kindergarten - Grade 1
Ask students to:

• Draw abstract ideas like air, sound, movement, taste and smell. Tell the story of the drawing as it happens.
• Integrate their thoughts and words into their drawing.
• Draw a story beginning with, "Once upon a time..." Tell the story aloud as they draw it. Continue probing by asking, "And then what happened?"
• Think about a job that they may do when they are a grown up. How do they envision that? Draw it and write about it.

Grades 2 - 3
Ask students to:

• Describe what creativity means to them, write about it and draw it. Encourage them to extract important words and weave them into their artwork.
• Look around their surroundings for creative spaces and objects. Discuss why they are creative. Write phrases. Encourage visual expression about the area that inspires them.
• Collage a portrait of a creative friend using different kinds of papers and drawings that they tear and cut. Describe why they think this friend is creative. Use words and phrases in the work to emphasize ideas.

Grades 4 - 5
Ask students to:

• Discuss what creativity means to them and why it is important in the world. Compare and contrast a world without creativity and a world with it. Write this description and illustrate the contrasting views.
• Choose a current issue and think of a creative solution. Write about it and illustrate it.
• Write about a creative person either from today or from history. What makes them more creative than others?
• Design and construct a portrait by choosing colors, textures, words, etc. that describe this person.

Grades 6 - 12
Ask students to:

• Discuss what creativity means to them and why its important in the world. Illustrate problems that could have a creative solution. Draw it and write about it.
• Journal about their most creative characteristics. Interview each other. Ask for their impressions. Are they the same or different? Make a visual representation of these characteristics. Explore if their self-assessment is different from their friends impression. Integrate words.
• Reflect on creative problem solving. How do they generate solutions? Do they like to work alone or in a team? What environment helps them create? Visually express the process and integrate their thoughts.

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