Creative Materials and Activities for the
Early Childhood Curriculum
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– 1st Edition
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TEST BANK
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Joan Packer Isenberg
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Comprehensive Test Bank for Instructors and
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Students
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© Joan Packer Isenberg
All rights reserved. Reproduction or distribution without permission is prohibited.
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©Medexcellence ✅��
, Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Creativity and the Arts 1
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Chapter 2 Facilitating Creativity and the Arts 4
Chapter 3 Designing Environments for Creativity and the Arts 7
Chapter 4 Visual Arts and Children’s Development 10
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Chapter 5 Creative Materials and Activities for the Visual Arts 14
Chapter 6 Creative Materials and Activities for Drama 17
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Chapter 7 Creative Materials and Activities for Music, Movement, and Dance 20
Chapter 8 Language, Literacy, and the Creative Arts 23
Chapter 9 Mathematics and the Creative Arts 26
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Chapter 10 Science and the Creative Arts 29
Chapter 11 Social Studies and the Creative Arts 32
Chapter 12 Assessing Creative Learning 35
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Chapter 13 Planning Effective Arts-Based Lessons 38
Chapter 14 Integrating the Curriculum through Arts-Based Units 40
Answer Key 42
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, Chapter 1
Creativity and the Arts
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1. Creativity is defined as:
a. the ability to produce something original but still appropriate and useful
b. the ability to recognize new and original ideas
c. the ability to think and learn about ideas in new and unique ways and to produce
something original but still appropriate and useful
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d. the ability to think and learn about ideas in new and unique ways
2. Divergent thinking is defined as:
a. the ability to narrow a pool of novel ideas into a single chosen idea or response
b. the ability to generate many unique ideas and choose the single best idea or response
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c. the ability to generate many unique ideas
d. the ability choose the single best answer from a larger group
3. The four cognitive characteristics of creativity (Torrance, 1969) are:
a. originality, fluency, flexibility, elaboration
b. originality, frequency, flexibility, elaboration
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c. originality, fluency, flexibility, explanation
d. innovation, fluency, flexibility, elaboration
4. Flexibility, one of the four cognitive characteristics of creativity, is:
a. the ability to generate many different ideas and produce a variety of diverse solutions
b. the ability to think of ideas or solutions that have never been thought of before
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c. the ability to brainstorm in a group setting
d. the ability to see things from different points of view or to generate many responses
5. Which of the following is not an effective characteristic of creativity:
a. playfulness
b. imagination
c. timid
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d. perseverance
6. As an affective characteristic of creativity, curiosity is seen as:
a. the uninhibited ability to generate many possible ways of doing things or solving
problems
b. the courage to express ideas that are unexpected but acceptable
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c. the deep desire to know how things work and how people think
d. the ability to think about a range of possibilities and engage in fantasy play
7. The four C’s include:
a. creativity, cognition, collaboration, communication
b. creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, communication
c. creativity, cognition, cooperation, communication
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d. creativity, critical thinking, cooperation, collaboration
8. Media literacy is:
a. the ability to understand visual images, music, acting, and dance through all forms of
media
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b. the ability to produce visual images, music, acting, and dance through all forms of media
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, c. the ability to interpret visual images, music, acting, and dance through all forms of
media
d. the ability to discuss visual images, music, acting, and dance through all forms of media
with others
9. The four steps in the creative process from the Wallas model include:
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a. preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification
b. preparation, cultivation, illumination, and confirmation
c. planning, incubation, clarification, and verification
d. planning, incubation, illumination, and confirmation
10. Aesthetics is:
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a. the enjoyment, sensitivity, and appreciation of beauty that can involve human creations
all forms of art
b. the enjoyment, sensitivity, and appreciation of beauty that can involve nature, human
creations, and all art forms
c. the enjoyment, sensitivity, and appreciation of beauty that can involve nature, human
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creations, and visual forms of art
11. Children develop aesthetics through:
a. hearing, seeing, touching, tasting, creating, and smelling
b. listening, seeing, touching, and smelling
c. hearing, seeing, touching, tasting, and smelling
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d. listening, creating, and touching
12. Creativity is discussed as an important metal process in:
a. Classical theories
b. Classical and modern theories
c. Modern theories
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d. Postmodern theories
13. Perseverance, fluency, flexibility, and elaboration are:
a. learned skills that children can develop
b. fixed skills that children are born with
c. adult skills that children have yet to develop
d. skills that are best taught in the secondary grades
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14. Children’s creative process may take the form of:
a. imaginative play
b. self-expression
c. a new product or understanding
d. all of the above
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15. The arts provide opportunities for children’s development in:
a. the cognitive domain
b. the social/emotional domains
c. the physical domain
d. all of the above
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16. As a 21st century skill, the critical thinking skill set, is seen as:
a. discovering new ways to think, learn, and do
b. the capacity to change one’s mind based on additional information, to approach a
problem from a new angle, and to consider alternative points of view
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c. the ability to know what to say and how to say it to make ourselves understood
d. none of the above
17. The right hemisphere of the brain involves:
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Early Childhood Curriculum
UV
– 1st Edition
IA
TEST BANK
_A
PP
Joan Packer Isenberg
RO
Comprehensive Test Bank for Instructors and
VE
Students
D?
© Joan Packer Isenberg
All rights reserved. Reproduction or distribution without permission is prohibited.
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©Medexcellence ✅��
, Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Creativity and the Arts 1
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Chapter 2 Facilitating Creativity and the Arts 4
Chapter 3 Designing Environments for Creativity and the Arts 7
Chapter 4 Visual Arts and Children’s Development 10
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Chapter 5 Creative Materials and Activities for the Visual Arts 14
Chapter 6 Creative Materials and Activities for Drama 17
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Chapter 7 Creative Materials and Activities for Music, Movement, and Dance 20
Chapter 8 Language, Literacy, and the Creative Arts 23
Chapter 9 Mathematics and the Creative Arts 26
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Chapter 10 Science and the Creative Arts 29
Chapter 11 Social Studies and the Creative Arts 32
Chapter 12 Assessing Creative Learning 35
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Chapter 13 Planning Effective Arts-Based Lessons 38
Chapter 14 Integrating the Curriculum through Arts-Based Units 40
Answer Key 42
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, Chapter 1
Creativity and the Arts
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1. Creativity is defined as:
a. the ability to produce something original but still appropriate and useful
b. the ability to recognize new and original ideas
c. the ability to think and learn about ideas in new and unique ways and to produce
something original but still appropriate and useful
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d. the ability to think and learn about ideas in new and unique ways
2. Divergent thinking is defined as:
a. the ability to narrow a pool of novel ideas into a single chosen idea or response
b. the ability to generate many unique ideas and choose the single best idea or response
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c. the ability to generate many unique ideas
d. the ability choose the single best answer from a larger group
3. The four cognitive characteristics of creativity (Torrance, 1969) are:
a. originality, fluency, flexibility, elaboration
b. originality, frequency, flexibility, elaboration
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c. originality, fluency, flexibility, explanation
d. innovation, fluency, flexibility, elaboration
4. Flexibility, one of the four cognitive characteristics of creativity, is:
a. the ability to generate many different ideas and produce a variety of diverse solutions
b. the ability to think of ideas or solutions that have never been thought of before
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c. the ability to brainstorm in a group setting
d. the ability to see things from different points of view or to generate many responses
5. Which of the following is not an effective characteristic of creativity:
a. playfulness
b. imagination
c. timid
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d. perseverance
6. As an affective characteristic of creativity, curiosity is seen as:
a. the uninhibited ability to generate many possible ways of doing things or solving
problems
b. the courage to express ideas that are unexpected but acceptable
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c. the deep desire to know how things work and how people think
d. the ability to think about a range of possibilities and engage in fantasy play
7. The four C’s include:
a. creativity, cognition, collaboration, communication
b. creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, communication
c. creativity, cognition, cooperation, communication
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d. creativity, critical thinking, cooperation, collaboration
8. Media literacy is:
a. the ability to understand visual images, music, acting, and dance through all forms of
media
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b. the ability to produce visual images, music, acting, and dance through all forms of media
1
, c. the ability to interpret visual images, music, acting, and dance through all forms of
media
d. the ability to discuss visual images, music, acting, and dance through all forms of media
with others
9. The four steps in the creative process from the Wallas model include:
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a. preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification
b. preparation, cultivation, illumination, and confirmation
c. planning, incubation, clarification, and verification
d. planning, incubation, illumination, and confirmation
10. Aesthetics is:
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a. the enjoyment, sensitivity, and appreciation of beauty that can involve human creations
all forms of art
b. the enjoyment, sensitivity, and appreciation of beauty that can involve nature, human
creations, and all art forms
c. the enjoyment, sensitivity, and appreciation of beauty that can involve nature, human
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creations, and visual forms of art
11. Children develop aesthetics through:
a. hearing, seeing, touching, tasting, creating, and smelling
b. listening, seeing, touching, and smelling
c. hearing, seeing, touching, tasting, and smelling
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d. listening, creating, and touching
12. Creativity is discussed as an important metal process in:
a. Classical theories
b. Classical and modern theories
c. Modern theories
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d. Postmodern theories
13. Perseverance, fluency, flexibility, and elaboration are:
a. learned skills that children can develop
b. fixed skills that children are born with
c. adult skills that children have yet to develop
d. skills that are best taught in the secondary grades
VE
14. Children’s creative process may take the form of:
a. imaginative play
b. self-expression
c. a new product or understanding
d. all of the above
D?
15. The arts provide opportunities for children’s development in:
a. the cognitive domain
b. the social/emotional domains
c. the physical domain
d. all of the above
??
16. As a 21st century skill, the critical thinking skill set, is seen as:
a. discovering new ways to think, learn, and do
b. the capacity to change one’s mind based on additional information, to approach a
problem from a new angle, and to consider alternative points of view
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c. the ability to know what to say and how to say it to make ourselves understood
d. none of the above
17. The right hemisphere of the brain involves:
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