Activities for Developing Creativity
Creativity in teaching and learning are served best when a process of modeling through specific instructional strategies support the instructor. These lessons are a combination of ideas obtained from the writer's personal experience and the following books.
The lessons in this article are from the following books:
Lessons for integrating movement, and singing for stimulating motivation in learning will come from, The Child's Way of Learning: A Handbook for building Creative Teaching Experiences.
If the Shoe Fits: How to Develop Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom, and The Yippee Book: Creative Ideas for Writing and Drama, have lessons focusing on creative writing.
These lessons will be mix with creativity lessons designed by the author of this article.
The Maze Game involves moving to sound. The individual instruments selected for this activity are experienced before the activity to acquaint the students with their sound. The students are to move in specific directions depending on the instrument that they hear.
Teacher's participation: The teacher will play the individual instruments behind a partition that hides the type of instruments played.
Materials needed: Guiro, maracas, hand drum, wood block, and a triangle are the instruments needed in this exercise. Activities: When the guiro is played, the students are take one step to the right. When the maracas are played, the students are to take one step to the left. When the hand drum is played, one step forward should be taken. When the triangle is played, one step backwards is the answer. When the wood block is played, the student should make one quarter turn.
Facilities: The music classroom is used for this activity.
The Sound Machine will include work that uses bodily movements supporting the kinesthetic learners, verbal use, supporting the linguistic learners and interpersonal development skills. The social skills are practiced through the use of cooperation and shared responsibilities.
Activities: The students will create environmental sounds of a particular setting. All will participate and work together for the machine to produce the setting. Some ideas for performance include, farm equipment, transportation vehicles, emergency vehicles or household appliances.
Teacher's role: The teacher will divide the students into groups of four. Each student is assigned a role. The role of the engineer will assign other parts and the role of the checker will make sure that all members understand timing, motions and sounds.
Materials Needed: A classroom providing open space is needed. Chairs will be moved aside for this exercise.
Other: A discussion for reflection will conclude the activity. What made the machine work? What would have made it better? Students are encouraged to take notes.
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