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Directions
Enduring Understandings Creative and innovation thinking are essential life skills that can be developed. Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative art-making goals. How to Break through your CREATIVE BLOCK
What is it? What does it look like? Brainstorming involves experimentation to come up with as many ideas as possible. Good brainstorming emphasizes quantity over quality, taking risks, and thinking by DOING. Investigating involves researching to see how other artists have approached your topic or idea not what it is going to look like. It should not look like a final sketch. Sketching, researching, writing Quantity=Quality Making ideas deep Making a list or a MIND MAP |
Skills Rubric
4 - I used a brainstorming process to generate an idea with creativity and depth of meaning without assistance 3 - I needed help to give a simple idea more depth and creativity 2 - I used a brainstorming process but stopped too early before my idea was strong enough 1 - I didn't properly use the brainstorming process to get a strong and creative idea Visual Journal: Process Use your writing and photos to show how you started brainstorming, your decision making, and what direction your thinking led you to your idea. (What did you do first, second, etc.) Your reflection should show EVIDENCE of what skill level you are and explain the meaning behind your idea. How Do I Know I am Done?
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