This non-profit group promotes creative ideas across the state of Oklahoma through initiatives to help in education, among other things. "Creative Oklahoma recognizes that creativity must become an overarching and essential mindset for Oklahomans if this state is to thrive economically and socially in the 21st Century. Creative Oklahoma is the only statewide non-profit organization in the nation that encourages and supports creativity in the multiple arenas of Culture, Commerce and Education." Note: It is part of a world-wide community dividing areas into "districts of creativity."
Have your students create and print out these free online thinking guides when they are working on a laboratory assignment or collaborative group project. There is a wide array of graphic organizer templates that may be manipulated and used for different disciplines and topics.
This seems like a very interesting site/organization to note as an overview of the educational topics we are discussing so far. The bulleted articles are quite informative.