Creativity and its dimensions speak about the meaning of creativity. It also explains how to foster creativity in various subjects.

1. CREATIVITY AND ITS
DIVERGENT
DIMENSIONS

2. Author :
 Mrs.S.Jerslin
 Research Scholar, Department of
Education, GRI-DU.

3. INTRODUCTION
 “All can dance but only a few are identified as
outstanding dancers; for centuries people
have been seeing objects falling around them
but only Newton to invent this observation in to
a theory”. So what differences this few from
the rest? This is known as creativity.
 we are going to discuss some of its
components like fluency, elaboration and
originality.

4. FLUENCY
 Fluency is termed as producing a lot of
different ideas. It is a type of skill that we can
frame a number of variable solutions to solve
our problem.

5. FLUENCY BUILDERS
 Maths: List the things which are round in
shape
 Language: Word Building
 Science: List the living things.
 Social Studies: Things that can affect election.

6. ELABORATION
 Elaboration involves adding, filling and
connecting creative solution to a problem it
carries the ideas of the co-workers. It brings
something real, understandable, without
elaboration one cannot see the full-fledged
form of creativity.

7. Ideas for building elaboration
 Math: Decorate 3d shapes to show three
dimension and characteristics.
 Science: Annotate an image of a plant cell.
 Social Science: Make campaign posters of
“Teague Awareness”.
 Language/arts/reading: Write a paragraph
about ”India 2020”.
 Music/art: Complete a drawing/ musical
phrase. Many technology tools are used to
elaborate a concept

8. ORIGINALITY
 Originality is the ability to produce on to
generate an idea or a product which is usual,
unexpected or first of its kind. Originality is the
peak of creativity.

9. IDEAS FOR BUILDING
ORIGINALITY
 Maths: Show 24 as a shape.
 Science: Create an illustrated lab report from
the point of view of one of the chemicals
involved.
 Social Science: Make a ppt on “Ancient India”
 Language/arts: Write a poem about pollution.

10. CONCLUSION
 The IQ test doesn’t tap whatever it takes to
produce original, workable ideas- that is, it
doesn’t measure creativity. Measuring
creativity is through originality, elaboration and
flexibility is the one of the best way to measure
creativity.