1. welcome KIM ALLEN KIM.ALLEN@HALLCO.ORG DEANNA FAWCETT DEANNA.FAWCETT@HALLCO.OR G SARDIS ENRICHMENT SCHOOL Hall county, GA

2. CREATIVE THINKING 4Four Parts of Creative Thinking 4Adding creative elements to a task… Transformation Pictures & Writing…

3. Choice Boards = Motivation Creativity Packets to Compliment Interdisciplinary Units CREATIVE THINKING

5. Technology

6. Hour of code This year our students, grades 2-5, participated again in the global movement, Hour Of Code through www.code.orgwww.code.org What is this? Basically it is a movement for students to have exposure to computer science and coding. Click here to watch some of the videos with some familiar faces (Bill Gates, Chris Bosh, Barack Obama and more) that explain this further… https://hourofcode.com/us/promote/resources#videos

7. Technology Hour of code

8. CRITICAL THINKING & PROBLEM SOLVING Matrix Madness Albert’s Insomnia

9. CRITICAL THINKING & PROBLEM SOLVING “stay in the Struggle” Creative Problem Solving

10. STEMSTEM

11. STEMSTEM ScienceTechnologyEngineeringMath Organized by grade level Student response sheets Used in various units AND as a collaborative tool

12. LEGO WEDO ROBOTICS

13. LEGO WEDO ROBOTICS

14. Specialty tools in our tool belt Search Design Company: Card Project Roller Coaster Unit “This is How We Roll…” Creativity + Fundraising = $$$ for your classroom

15. Specialty tools in our tool belt Projects By Jen (online) Wish You Were Here Year-long Theme

16. Thank you for joining us! We hope you were able to add a new idea or two to your teacher toolbox! Don’t forget…we have the BEST job in the world…making a difference in the lives of our students and our future! (Even if it feels like we are “herding cats” some days.)