How to Think Outside the Box with Creativity Exercises Encouraging creative thinking inspires studen

How to Think Outside the Box with Creativity Exercises
Encouraging creative thinking inspires students to ask questions, try new things and apply ideas to practical situations. Use individual and group based activities to open the door to innovation and build individual confidence. Incorporate creativity activities into everyday subject matter like English, science and art. The result will be increased interest in learning and the opportunity for each student to believe in her power to be creative in a variety of situations. Three creativity exercises are suggested as follows.
Use a mind-mapping exercise to help students overcome mind blocks to creativity.
Joyce Wycoff, author of the book “Mindmapping,” explains that a mind map encourages creativity by stimulating the brain to think in different patterns. Put a concept in the center of a large piece of paper and have your students surround the paper, each holding a marker. Ask them to brainstorm ideas and write them as offshoots (分支) to the concept. Have them add images and draw connections between ideas. You can use this to help them create a project, study for tests or organize a research paper.
Play a game of charades to empower students to use their minds and bodies to help their team win the game.
Select words that apply to a new topic you wish to introduce to the class. For example, if you want to discuss the history of your state, pick words that illustrate historical events your class will study. Divide the class into teams and ask volunteers to act out the words. Have students guess what the words are, and write the words on the board after students guess them correctly so they can see a complete list at the end of the game. Go back and forth between teams until all words have been used. When the game is over, ask the class to guess what the words have in common.
Invigorate (鼓舞) your students and stimulate creative thinking by facilitating a sentence relay race.
The goal of the race is to see which team can compose a sentence on a given subject. Begin by taping large pieces of paper to the wall and line up student teams about 5 feet from the wall. Give the teams one marker and a subject for the sentence. Tell them the object of the race is to build a sentence, one word at a time. The first student in each team will begin the sentence with a word. He will then run the marker to the next teammate and continue the process until each student has added a word to the sentence. The sentence relay will encourage quick thinking and stimulate creativity. Use the race to introduce a social studies concept or to reinforce the plot of a story for English class.

How to Think Outside the Box with Creativity Exercises
Introduction		71．of encouraging creative thinking and organizing creativity exercises	Students are more likely to ask questions, try new things and put ideas into 72．. Students will be increasingly interested in learning and have more73．to be creative by means of
Creativity exercises	Helping Students Map Their Minds	74．of a mind map and how to use it	It encourages creativity by making the brain think 75．. Put a concept in the middle of the paper to which students add 76．and draw connections between them.
	Using Dramatic Play to Lead Students to be Creative	77．.	Volunteers are asked to act out the words illustrating historical events, of which the correctly guessed words are 78．.
	79．a Relay by Building a Sentence	The race is 80．at building a sentence, one student, one word at a time until each teammate has made an addition to the sentence.