Publisher's Synopsis
Part with the ground under your feet and fly free with your imagination by STEAM stories and poems. Discover how birds migrate. Reach higher as the parrots flying high at dawn. Learn what stories animal colors tell. Are those stories of camouflage, warning or courting? Be ignited with interdisciplinary thinking discovering facts about the peacock. Introduce symmetry in nature to children. What is the connection between the peacock feathers' symmetry and courting colors? Learn how to communicate effectively from the story of a small zebra finch trying to get his voice heard. The kids become coauthors and co-illustrators in Raising Creative Thinkers: Birds, celebrating their creative thinking. Ignited by the poems, paintings and interesting facts about birds, they write and draw their own ideas. They create one-of-a-kind books, reflecting their child genius. In the meantime, they bond with the animal world, and become curious about science. Raising Creative Thinkers Series: Birds is based on conversations with Dr. Moshe Rishpon, who established the Clore Garden of Science and the Science Oriented Youth Department in the Weizmann Institute. This department is a pioneer program in science Education and a leader of that field worldwide. Inspire the kids to reach higher, to communicate positively and maturely and to care for the environment with this enriching fun-educational birds STEAM book. Be inspired yourself! Use this book to foster children's creative thinking, to be more successful dealing with challenging educational tasks, and to be better prepared for higher education.Michelle Korenfeld is an Amazon author, lifelong creativity practitioner, 21st century learning curriculum developer, facilitator, painter and poet. She is the director of Raising Creative Thinkers, whose blog helps teachers, educators, parents and grandparents step up 21st century learning. People come to her workshops in order to raise creative thinkers and find out they have raised themselves as such. Michelle offers the 5 E's strategy: Explore, Experience, Examine, Elevate and Express. Using the 5 E's as a success routine, people find creative problem solving accessible and simple.Michelle's STEAM resources are based on 20 years of experience integrating art and literature with nature, science and environment. Raising Creative Thinkers' books and strategy are based on a humanistic and caring approach. They are designed to foster 21st century skills like imagination, flexibility communication. collaboration, and innovation. Michelle believes much of children's anxiety derives from stifled creativity, and hopes her books help direct toward fulfillment of individual creative potentials. Michelle's original tools are based on her life research and on raising her daughters. Already teenagers, they still teach her creative thinking lessons every day.
