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Creativity (创造力) is the key to a bright future. Here is1schools and parents can help their children to develop their creativity.

Drew worked for a company in 1925. At work he invented a kind of material 2 enough to hold things together. But his boss told him not to think more about the idea. Drew didn't stop and finally, using his own time, made a kind of tape, 3 now is used everywhere by many people. And his company learned from its 4 .

Now the company asks its workers to 5 15 percent of their work time just thinking about and developing new ideas.

Creativity is not something 6 is just born with. A person with high intelligence does not mean that he uses it creatively. Creativity is the matter of 7 your intelligence to think of new ideas that are good for something.

We know that many schools have tried to8 students' creativity, but some teachers only want to develop students' reading, writing and maths skills, and have to 9 creativity for correct answers. Children from such schools can give correct answers, but they are unable to use 10 to work out problems.

It is important to give children choices. From the earliest age, children should learn to make decisions and understand their 11 Even though it's choosing between two kinds of food 12 lunch, decision- making helps thinking skills.13 children grow older, parents should let their children decide how to use their time or spend 14 money. The child may have a 15 time, but that is all right.

On a sunny day, a yellow school bus headed for Elver Park in Madison, Wisconsin. The seventh graders took their rockets (火箭) , notebooks and pencils with them. At the park, they prepared, their rockets for take-off. They waited for their teacher's signal (信号) to start the countdown: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, GO!

"With the rocket unit, 1 taught the basic principles (原理) of physics," explained David Ropa. He teaches science at Spring Harbor Middle School.

"Kids, like all humans, are doing science all the time. They discover the world through play whether they're playing with toys or playing with sand on the beach. They have an idea. They set up a test. They study the results. Then they improve their methods, "said Ropa.

In fact, kids stay more confident about "doing science' when their teachers use those words. Talking about "being scientists" actually may lower their confidence. After all, science isn't just for scientists. Cooks, musicians and gardeners often use textbook knowledge of science in the real world.

Leslie Hunter is also interested in science. But she's growing plants, not building airplanes. She started her own vegetable garden at the age of eight. Her parents prepared the land, and she did everything else.

In college, Hunter learned the science of growing flowers, fruit and vegetables. Today she works at the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden in Lowa. Hunter uses science to grow plants. The science of plants helps her manage the garden well.

Matt Mason has seen the future - and it's fun. Mason likes thinking about how machines can make our lives easier by doing the work we hate, such as cleaning. He shows a hard floor cleaning system that's built into the wall; it will blow dirt to a part of the room where it will be collected by a vacuum. Then the system will drop some cleaner on the floor and an arm will mop it up.

When it comes to the kitchen, Bruce Beihoff, another expert at Whirlpool, is sure that in a few years, robots will be doing most of the boring work, freeing us to relax. "More than just fun. Future kitchens will be environmentally friendly, "he says." A new system will be built in the house which can recycle energy lost from your kitchen to make the whole home warm.

"The fridge will be the centre of the home," says Daniel Lee, a market expert. The fridge will have a touch screen where you can watch TV, surf the Internet, check your email, keep a shopping list and order vegetables. Lee says, "Your fridge is the first place you go in the morning and the last place at night.

Ever wonder why a 1. 9- metre man and a 1. 6-metre woman have to cook meals on counters of the same height? "The height was decided over 50 years ago, according to the height of ordinary women," says Jane Langmuir, an expert of cooking machines." But times have changed. We are thinking about making a new counter where you press a button and it moves to whatever height you want.

Man invented a lot of sports equipment. The first one was the ball.

Thousands of years ago, in Egypt, the children's favourite game was throwing stones. But a badly thrown stone could hurt a child. Looking for something less dangerous to throw, the people in Egypt made the first balls.

At first, they used tree leaves to make balls. They used vines(藤) to keep the leaves together. Later they began to use pieces of animal skin and fill them with some light things. These balls were much better than the old ones.

Before long they invented a lot of ball games. Each had its own rules. They began to play these ball games according to the rules. They thought that ball playing was one of the best ways to teach the young people to be brave and strong.