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CREATIVITY COUNTSCREATIVITY COUNTSPRESENTERPRESENTER
Stephanie Malcom Stephanie Malcom GT Coordinator Jessieville SDGT Coordinator Jessieville SD
This interactive session will present strategies that challenge students to use productive thinking and problem solving together with creativity in the core content areas. Let the arts enrich learning experiences, stimulate the senses and tickle the interest of advanced learners. Process and product choice will motivate students to take ownership in their own education. Varying instructional approaches and using combinations of content, process, and products will allow for adaptations that consider the needs, abilities, and interests of individual students.
What is “gifted”?• THERE IS NO FEDERAL DEFINITION• Varies by state
RENZULLI's3 Ring Model
GIFTED
Albert EinsteinWas he gifted?
• Above Average Intelligence• Task Commitment• Creativity
Different LearnersLearn Differently
Many Gifted Students are Visual–Spatial Learners
• Visual-spatial learners think in pictures rather than in words.
• They learn best visually. They learn all-at-once, and when the light bulb goes on, learning is permanent.
• They do not learn from repetition and drill. They are whole-part learners who need to see the big picture first before they learn the details.
• They are non-sequential, which means that they do not learn step-by-step. Creativity allows them to develop their own learning process.
Visual–Spatial Learners• May have difficulty with easy tasks, but show
amazing ability with difficult, complex tasks.• Tend to be organizationally impaired and
unconscious about time.• They also are very creative, dramatic, artistic and
musical.
You can tell you have one of these children by the endless amount of time they spend doing advanced puzzles, completing mazes, counting everything, building with any materials at hand, designing scientific experiments, or taking everything apart to see how it operates.
You may find that gifted students will finish their work early, and after becoming bored, disrupt other class members who are still working.
Gifted students need challenge & creativity to keep them engaged!
Multiple Intelligences• Linguistic – Highly
developed verbal skills • Logical/Mathematical –
Steps, patterns• Spatial – Artistic, visualizes• Naturalist – Sensitive to
natural phenomena• Bodily kinesthetic –
Excellent body/motor control, drama
• Musical – rhythms, beats• Interpersonal – High ability
to understand other individuals
• Intrapersonal – High ability to understand one’s self
GARDNER'STheory of MULTIPLEIntelligences
School is often not receptive to the highly gifted!
• Einstein was four years old before he could speak and seven before he could read.
• Isaac Newton did poorly in grade school.• When Thomas Edison was a boy, his teachers
told him he was too stupid to learn anything.• A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because
he had ‘no good ideas.’• Winston Churchill flunked the 6th grade.• Louis Pasteur was rated as mediocre in
chemistry when he attended the Royal College.
Studies show that 20% of H.S. dropouts are gifted students.
From Theory to the Classroom
• Showing Our Funnybone– Fingerprint comic strips– Kreative Komix Comic Book
Maker• Mr. SLIF• Artwork that Measures Up!
Creative lesson ideas
Showing Our Funny Bone
Gifted Frameworks: Creativity, Critical Thinking, Self-Awareness
Multiple Intelligences: Visual/spatial, verbal, intrapersonal Interdisciplinary Connections: History, Science, ForensicsMaterials: long strips of white paper, ink pads, colored
pencils, wet wipes for easy clean-upInstructions: 1. Fold paper into fourths, separating equal sections with a vertical
pencil line2. Press thumb lightly and evenly on ink pad and transfer print onto
a section 3. Repeat process as desired4. Use prints to create cartoons Use as a follow-up lesson
after teaching fingerprint
types, careers in forensic
science, historical political
cartooning or propaganda.
Showing Our Funny Bone!
• Gifted Frameworks: Critical thinking, creativity, technology
• Multiple Intelligences: Visual/spatial, verbal• Interdisciplinary Connections: History,
science, creative writing• Materials: Kreative Komix software
http://www.kreativekomix.com/Titles: Science, US History, Dinosaurs, Science Fiction, Fairy Tale, Super Hero
Tell a story, invent characters, make your own graphic story, print or play on screen
Mr. SLIF• RESEARCH• CREATIVITY• SELF-AWARENESS
Gifted Frameworks
Multiple Intelligences•Kinesthetic•Naturalistic•Interpersonal•Musical
BONUS: WE USED
RECYCLED
MATERIALS
Mr. SLIF Room 206Types of Bones• Short (wrists, ankles)
• Long (arms, legs)
• Irregular (spine, face)
• Flat (skull, ribs, chest)
There are 206 skeletal bones in the human body.
Without our skeletons,
we would be shapeless
mass, just like a
jellyfish.
Interdisciplinary Connections: Students learn the scientific names for the bones that comprise the human skeleton, the types and number of human bones, and functions of bones with the assistance of Ron Clark’s CD The Essential Raps!
$15.55 at www.Amazon.com
The Essential Raps! By Ron Clark
Multiple Intelligences:Integrates music into the classroom to appeal to musical/rhythmic learners.
Artwork that Measures Up!Big Idea: Interdisciplinary connections between art and standard measurements Art Element: Lines and basic geometric shapes K.I.S.S. – Keep It Simple Students
Fast Fact: Henri Matisse used simple lines and designs to create paper collages
Artwork that Measures Up!Gifted Frameworks: Creativity, Critical Thinking, Self-AwarenessMultiple Intelligences: Logical/Mathematical, Visual/Spatial, KinestheticInterdisciplinary Connections: Art techniques and history, standard units of
measurement, motor skillsMaterials: colored construction paper, rulers, scissors, pencils Instructions:1. Choose 2 colors of construction paper and get 2 of each color2. Mark off the short side for every one inch3. Slide ruler to other side and repeat step 2 (sliding the ruler ensures your
marks are perfectly aligned)4. Connect the dots making long one inch stripes5. Repeat with other 3 sheets of construction paper6. Cut one of each color along the lines creating colored strips7. Paste colored strips on other two sheets, alternating colors in a pattern (red,
blue, red, blue…)8. You now have 2 sheets of construction paper with alternating colored stripes.
On the back of one, draw large simple figures. (REM: Keep It Simple Students)
9. Cut out figure(s) 10. Align figure(s) to the other sheet matching ends to opposite colors on the
sheet (EX: the red lines on the figure aligns with the blue lines on the sheet) 11. Secure figures with glue
Integrate this activity into the Bones
Unit by having students draw things
that help build strong bones, such as
healthy foods or exercise.
Student Showcase• Display research and projects in the
classroom or outside the door• Present student work to parents
– During parent/teacher conference– Invite parents for a lunch visit– Have parents drop by during the GT pull-out time
• Collaborate with Home Economics teacher or cafeteria to have students prepare snacks to serve to parents.– This hands-on activity will have students poking
parents to come!
Cookie Ingredients: 1 cup butter, softened1 cup powdered sugar1 egg1 teaspoon vanilla extract2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour1 teaspoon baking powder1 teaspoon salt1/2 cup sliced almonds2 tablespoons Icing Glue
Icing Glue Ingredients: 1/4 cup powdered sugar1 teaspoon water
Preparation1. In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter until
smooth and creamy. 2. Add the sugar, egg, and vanilla extract and mix
well. 3. Add the flour, baking powder, and salt and beat
until completely mixed. 4. Cover the dough and refrigerate for 30 minutes. 5. Preheat the oven to 325°F. 6. With your hands, roll a heaping tablespoon of
dough into a finger shape for each cookie. If the dough gets sticky and hard to work with, put it back in the refrigerator for a little while. Place fingers on an ungreased cookie sheet about 3 inches apart.
7. Use a butter knife to make knuckle marks on the finger cookies. Slightly flatten the front of the finger to create a nail.
8. Bake 20-25 minutes, until fingers are slightly golden. Remove from the oven and let cool.
9. Meanwhile, prepare the Icing Glue. Mix together powdered sugar and water in a small bowl until the consistency is similar to that of a paste.
9. Attach almond slice fingernails to the tips of the fingers with Icing Glue. Let glue dry for about 30 minutes.
Read more at http://www.epicurious.com/recipes
Finger Food Cookies