Jumpstart! Creativity - Softcover

Bowkett, Steve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0815367961 ISBN 13: 9780815367963

Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0815367961
• ISBN 13: 9780815367963
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 162