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A user-friendly resource book for teachers,
Kaleidoscope of Ideas contains numerous classroom activities that are designed to help middle primary to junior secondary students develop creative thinking skills.
These practical and enjoyable activities require very little preparation and may be used in the classroom immediately. Covering topics that range from the everyday to larger global and more serious issues, each activity can be used as a tool to help the development of systematic creative thinking.
The hands-on activities in
Kaleidoscope of Ideas will appeal to gifted and talented students, encouraging cooperative social skills, different techniques and approaches to creativity and more.
About the author
Author, mentor and teacher Hazel Edwards OAM has been involved with gifted education as a Tournament of Minds problem-writer and judge, mentored interesting thinkers of all ages and is intrigued by the techniques of unconventional problem-solvers. Many of her published stories deal with 'coping successfully with being different' and with real-world problem solvers. Her best-known publication is the children's picture book classic There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake (1980), along with its sequels and adaptations.
