Station 1

Mathematical Intelligence

Assignment: • View a section of the movie A Bug's Life. Pay

particular attention to the main character. • Complete Part III: Creativity Characteristics

using Renzulli's Scales for Rating the Behavioral Characteristics of Superior Students for Flik (the main character). Use your background knowledge of the movie to complete the Rating Scale.

Group Discussion: • Compare your ratings. Did Flik score high on

Creativity Characteristics? Do you think Flik is gifted?

Station 2

Visual/Spatial Intelligence

Talents Unlimited is a teaching/learning program that improves students' critical and creative thinking skills within the context of classroom curriculum. One talent, Productive Thinking, is to generate many, varied and unusually ideas or solutions and to add details to make the ideas more interesting. The focus of this talent is originality; the student must be a kind of inventor thinking of new and creative ways to look at a problem.

Assignment: • Working individually for 3-5 minutes, generate

a list of as many, varied, and unusual ideas or solutions to our Gulf Oil Spill.

Discussion: • As a group, read all the responses and

eliminate any duplication in phrasing that expresses the same idea. Were any of your ideas creative and original?

Station 3

Visual/Spatial Intelligence Verbal/Linguistic

Assignment: Take a copy of the Torrance Test of creative Thinking- Figural and Verbal Demonstrator. Complete the assignment in 12 minutes. You have 3 minutes per section. (Be sure to set the timer.)

Station 3 Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking—Figural and Verbal Demonstrator

Directions: Do not begin until you are told to do so.

Try to think of things that no one else will think of. Try to think of as many ideas as possible. Add details to your ideas to make them complete. If you finish before time is up, you may continue to add details or sit quietly. Please do not go to the next activity until told to do so.

Activity 1: Try to improve this stuffed toy rabbit so that it will be more fun to play with. You have 3 minutes. __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________

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Activity 2: Just suppose that people could transport themselves from place to place with just a wink of the eye or a twitch of the nose. What might be some things that would happen as a result? You have 3 minutes. _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Activity 3: Add lines to the incomplete figures below to make pictures out of them. Try to tell complete stories with your pictures. Give your pictures titles. You have 3 minutes. Activity 4: Add details to the shapes below to make pictures out of them. Make the diamond a part of any picture you make. Try to think of pictures no one else will think of. Add details to tell complete stories with your pictures. Give your pictures titles. You have 3 minutes.

Station 4

Verbal/Linguistic

Assignment: Put your answer in writing and then discuss.

1. Imagine that Martians came down to earth and removed part of everyone's brain. Would you rather they remove the logical side or the creative side? Why?

2. Would your answer change if it was your child? Why or why not?

Station 5

Musical Intelligence

Assignment: Change the words of a popular song or melody to explain the traits of gifted students. Perform the song to your instructors.

Station 6 Visual/Spatial Intelligence

BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Synectics is a dialectical method of solving problems using metaphors or analogies. It was created to help businesses come us with innovative solutions and new products. The process was named from the Greek syn (meaning bring together) and etics (meaning diversity) because it require that one force-fit responses.

Assignment: Using the list of concepts below, roll dice to get the first word. Next, roll the dice again to get the second word. If both rolls are the same number, substitute the second roll for 1. How can the two words become a metaphor?

1. acorn 2 . b ee 3. corn 4. car 5. dog 6. ear 7. folder 8. globe 9. harness 10. ink 11. judge 12. kite

Try some other ways of using synectics- Direct analogies: How is fear like a grapefruit? Which is harder, a rock or a scream? Personal analogies: Pretend you are your favorite animal. What are you? How do you feel? What do you want th most? Compressed conflicts: What actions are like living death? What animal is like submissive independence? Try creating a political cartoon by matching a political issue with a children's story and creating an analogy.

Issues Stories Pollution Drugs Cinderella Jack and the Homelessness Gun Control The Three Bears Beanstalk Recycling TV Violence Snow White The Three Pigs Endangered Peter Pan Aladdin Species

Starko, A.J. (2005). Creativity in the classroom: Schools of curious delight (3rd ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaurn Associates, Publishers.

Station 7 Bodily/Kinesthetic Intelligence

Directions: Working as a group, choose one item from each column. As a group, you will dramatize the situation. Be sure to include a conflict. Perform your skit to your instructor. Role (Who are Audience Format Topic

you?)

• Tooth • Whomever • Eulogy • Something fairy will listen • Commercial of

• Steve • Politicians • Debate interest Urkel • Parents • Interview studied in

• Bill Gates • Middle • Monologue module 1 • Pablo school • Motivational

Picasso students speaker • Gandhi • Homeless • Poem • Shrek • News • Report

Station 8 Visual/Spatial Intelligence

Complete the following tasks. Directions: In each of the following questions, a square transparent paper is given. Find out from amongst the four alternative figures which would look like the one when the paper is folded at the dotted line. [Note that in each question, the top the figure is that of the transparent paper and below it the four answer figures are given]. 1. Transparent Paper 2. Transparent Paper

3. Transparent Paper Directions: A Fig. (X) is given, followed by four complex figures in such a way that Fig. (X) is embedded in one of them. Choose that one. 4.

Directions: In each of the following questions, choose the correct water image of the figure (X) from amongst the four alternatives (a), (b), (c), (d) given along with it. 5.

6. Directions: Nets are 2 dimensional patterns which fold into 3 dimensional objects… 7. This graphic shows some same nets. Nets are 2-dimensional layouts that can be folded into 30dimentional objects. They cannot have overlapping pieces or any holes. The finished object must be complete on all sides. Your assignment is to make nets for the following shapes. 1x1x3 1x2x3 2x3x3