Curriculum & Instruction Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Keywords
Life Cycle; Science; Second Grade; Creativity
Journal/Book/Conference Title Title
Creative Education
Volume
3
Issue
4
First Page
479
Last Page
485
Abstract
Creativity is a necessary skill for students to become problem solvers in the rapidly changing 21st century. This study’s main activity allowed students to demonstrate their content knowledge in an engaging way while also exhibiting creative strengths. Twenty-two second grade students (15 female, 7 male) of mixed ability levels at a Title 1 school produced projects using identical sets of recycled and craft items. They incorporated vocabulary words and images associated with the life cycles of four organisms: horse, dragonfly, sea turtle, and bean plant. Projects were analyzed for creative strengths as well as science concept integration. Student-made products showed vocabulary from all four life cycles, but familiar organisms (dragonfly and bean plant) were depicted more frequently. Creative strengths evidenced in student work included: elaboration, breaking boundaries, storytelling articulateness, originality, and emotional expressiveness, among others. The authors recommend teachers incorporate similar creative tasks as assessments of content learning. Additional studies integrating more creative product assessments for a longer duration to show growth over time are suggested.
Department
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Original Publication Date
8-2012
DOI of published version
10.4236/ce.2012.34073
Repository
UNI ScholarWorks, University of Northern Iowa, Rod Library
Copyright
© 2012 Angela Naomi Webb and Audrey C. Rule. The copyright holder has granted permission for posting.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Date Digital
2012
Language
EN
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Webb, Angela Naomi and Rule, Audrey C., "Second Graders’ Recycled/Craft Item Products Demonstrate Life Cycle Content Knowledge and Creativity Skills" (2012). Curriculum & Instruction Faculty Publications. 11.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ci_facpub/11
Comments
First published in Creative Education, v. 3 n. 34 (2012), pp. 479-485,10.4236/ce.2012.34073, published by Scientific Research Publishing.