Creative Activities for the Secondary Classroom

By Mark Labrow
December 2009
Pearson Education
Distrubuted by Trans-Atlantic Publications Inc.
ISBN: 9781408225578
212 pages
$44.50 Paper Original

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Stimulating creativity and motivation in the secondary classroom, this book can be used in any secondary lesson to enhance the creativity of key stage 3 and 4 pupils. Focusing on creativity, confidence, motivation and other core, workplace skills, Mark Labrow provides a wealth of ideas to help teachers bring creativity to their classroom.  The activities in this handy, versatile resource will help students excel at teamwork, be competent in the art of negotiation, have an awareness of themselves and others, be flexible in their thinking, spontaneous in generating unique ideas and imaginative and creative when it comes to dreaming up solutions to everyday problems. All the ideas contained within this book are drawn from the worlds of theatre, drama, improvisation and business leadership. All can be used to breathe life into any lessons, enhancing concentration and supporting the delivery of key subjects in the secondary classroom.

Features   Key features: Over 100 activities aimed at developing core skills in the secondary classroom Individual, group and whole class activities Ideas can be used to tie in with any lesson or curriculum area, inspiring creativity across secondary education Activities can be easily adapted to suit different lessons and age groups Reduces the time spent planning, and fit easily into a busy timetable

Table of Contents Foreword                                                                             Introduction                                                                                                                                   Chapter 1  Developing a Sense of Team      Introduction                                                                                    Name Me Thrice                                                                     Name Tag                                                                               Amazing Adjective Action Names                                           Know Your Place                                                                     Cat and Mouse                                                                        Air Ball                                                                                                Bucket Ball        5 4 3 2 1                                                      Triangle Tag                                                                            Shuffle Monster                                                                      Fill My Chair                                                                            Cross-fire                                                                                 Negotiate                                                                                Rules of Engagement                                                              Machines                                                                                Own Goal                                                                                Agree–Disagree Continuum                                                     The Flock                                                                                 Balancing the Stage                                                                Verbal Artist                                                                            Mirrors                                                                                    Mirrors  – Guess Who?                                                             Mirrors – Whisper on the Wind                                              Mirrors – House of Fun                                                           Appliances                                                                   Advertise Me                                                               Contract and Expand                                                   Invisible Tug of War                                                    Spell TEAM                                                                  The Game                                                                   Trust Walk                                                                Trust Circle                                                                  Trust Fall                                                                     Trust Lift                                                    Object Minefield                                                         The Hand of Hypnosis                                                 Chapter Two                        Developing Focus and Concentration                        Introduction                                                                        1, 2, 3                                                                            1 to 20                                                                          Stop – Go                                                                                    Big Booty                                                                                 Yes Torpedo                                                                            Rag Tail                                                                                   Catch it – Drop it                                                                     Person to Person                                                                     Fuzzy Duck                                                                               Zip, Zap, Boing                                                                                    One Step Back                                                                         Prisoner                                                                                   Bang!                                                                           Sticks                                                                                       Brain Flop                                                                                Focus Line Up                                                                          Ha!                                                                                          The Impulse to Go                                                         Chapter Three         Developing Spontaneity                         Introduction                                                                        What’s in the Box?                                                      Alliteration                                                                  Word Association                                                        Rhyme Time                                                                Shift                                                                             What are you Doing?                                                   What the Audience Want                                           Sound Ball                                                                   Arms Through                                                              Last Letter                                                                   I am a Sandwich                                                          Word Up                                                                      Slide Show                                                              Translator                                                                                Foreign Film                                                                            Dubbing                                                                                   Fictionary                                                                               Die                                                                                             Chapter Four           Developing Scenes and Stories                         Introduction                                                                                    One Word Story/Conversations                                               Alphabet                                                                                  Hot Seating                                                                             Role on the Wall                                                                     Still Images                                                                             The Ripple                                                                               Sculpting                                                                                 Thought Tracking                                                        Conscience Alley                                                         Diary Entry                                                                  Words of Wisdom                                                       Cross Fade                                                                   CharacterBridge                                                         N.S.E.W.                                                                      Group Monologue                                                       Photo Fit                                                                      Soundscape                                                                 Dreamscape                                                                Ten–word Cascade                                                      Hidden Thoughts                                                         Park Bench                                                                  A Scene with no ‘S’                                                      What’s a Question?                                                     Every Other Question                                                   Last Letter Scenes                                                        The Creative Touch                                                                 Freeze Tag                                                                            Typewriter                                                                               Sixty-second Trailer                                                                 Rooms                                                            Emotional Grid                                                                        Sit, Stand, Lie                                                                          First Line, Last Line                                                                 Fish Bowl                                                                                 Puppets                                                                                   Who? What? Where?                                                              The Walls Have Ears                                                               New Choice                                                                             Prompts                                                                                   Silent Scenes                                                               All of Me                                                                     Writer's Raffle                                                              What’s so Funny?                                                        Emotional Baggage                                                      Appendices                                      First and Last Lines Introduction                 Lines                                                                            List of Locations    Introduction                             Locations

 

 

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