Creativity in Practice

Creativity in Practice

Creativity has been in full play at NHHS, especially this week with Homecoming activities, both in and out of the classroom. Creativity includes:

• Define the creative challenge
• identify sources of information
• generate and select ideas
• present work to uses/target audience
• originality
• value
• style

By challenging students and staff to be creative, products emerge that are out of the box, new and fresh ideas, and can move learning to a deeper level.

Students started the week by decorating hallways.  Every year student senate members look for new and inventive ways to begin our homecoming week, including how to hang decorations that will stay for the whole week of our celebration!

Students in Mr. Paulus's class used creativity to work on teamwork skills.  By building towers, they worked in groups and competed with other groups. They were tasked to generate and select ideas and be original to create the tallest tower with dry spaghetti and marshmallows.

Students in advanced chemistry were tasked to balance an equation and create the solution they found in the balance. They started with chemicals and had to work together to define the challenge and outcome.

Mr. Richards, dressed as Wayne, helps students work through problem in algebra. Students first worked with a partner to look for original or alternative ways to solve problem.  The outcome was a presentation of Trasketball after finding a solution in any way.

Finally, students worked through their own personal principle as part of the LEAD group working with Ryan Rausch. Students had to dig deep and reflect on their own strengths and weaknesses unique to their own situations. This was a tough task for students as they had to explain the reasoning behind the goals they have set for the year.