
Jumpstart! Creativity
Games and Activities for Ages 7-14
Steve Bowkett(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 23. April 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
148 pages
978-0-8153-6796-3 (ISBN)
Description
Jumpstart! Creativity contains over 70 games and activities that any primary teacher can use to quickly and easily boost students' creative and critical thinking skills, allowing their thinking to flourish. Now in its second edition, the book contains fresh material that will help children to engage with the new National Curriculum.
Applicable across a wide age and ability range, Jumpstart! Creativity is designed to help children learn to generate, organise and refine their own ideas and to explore, question and connect knowledge presented to them in the classroom. Focusing on getting the children to do the thinking work, the jumpstarts cover:
Creative thinking
Creative questioning
Creating reasoning
Creative problem solving
Creative wordplay
Filled with practical, fun-packed and easy-to-do activities, Jumpstart! Creativity is an essential companion to any primary teacher looking to inspire creativity and independent thinking in their students.
Applicable across a wide age and ability range, Jumpstart! Creativity is designed to help children learn to generate, organise and refine their own ideas and to explore, question and connect knowledge presented to them in the classroom. Focusing on getting the children to do the thinking work, the jumpstarts cover:
Creative thinking
Creative questioning
Creating reasoning
Creative problem solving
Creative wordplay
Filled with practical, fun-packed and easy-to-do activities, Jumpstart! Creativity is an essential companion to any primary teacher looking to inspire creativity and independent thinking in their students.
More details
Series
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Professional Practice & Development
Illustrations
8 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 11 s/w Zeichnungen, 1 s/w Tabelle
1 Tables, black and white; 11 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
221 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8153-6796-3 (9780815367963)
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E-Book
04/2018
2nd Edition
Routledge
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04/2018
2nd Edition
Routledge
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04/2018
2nd Edition
Routledge
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Previous edition

Book
08/2007
1st Edition
David Fulton Publishers Ltd
€39.80
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Person
Steve Bowkett is a former teacher and author of numerous books for teachers. He visits schools to run creative writing workshops for children and works as an educational consultant specialising in the areas of thinking skills and problem solving, creativity and literacy.
Content
Chapter 1: Jumpstart Creative Thinking Chapter 2: Jumpstart Creative Questioning Chapter 3: Jumpstart Creative Reasoning Chapter 4: Jumpstart Creative Problem Solving Chapter 5: Jumpstart Creative Wordplay