Destination ImagiNation®

Teaching Pre K-8, Nov/Dec 2004

Destination ImagiNation is a one of the world's largest creativity and problem solving programs open to students from kindergarten through college. DI is not just a wonderful extracurricular activity, it's an extension of the Destination ImagiNation brand of curriculum which draws on creative problem solving strategies and the multiple intelligences of students to use what they've learned in the classroom in new and creative ways. The program helps kids build important, lifelong skills such as problem solving, teamwork and divergent thinking.

Teams of five to seven children take one of the five or six yearly challenges offered by Destination ImagiNation and spend up to six or seven months in meetings and practices to offer up their solution to the challenges. The teams' efforts are aimed at Tournament Day, at which time teams from all over the region gather to perform an eight-minute skit that demonstrates their particular problem and solution.

To learn more about how to introduce the Destination ImagiNation program to your school, please visit www. destinationimagination.org