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The dig has mad e me more creative because i had to think beyond simple ideas. and i also had to think creatively about our culture and how to make clues. and while making the artifacts we had to be creative and make it fit in with the other artifacts
-scarlet

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It made me more creative because I had to make up part of a new culture and also make artifacts. it also taught me how to work better in a bigger group.
-Dylan C.

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the dig made me a more creative person  by making me push past the limits of creativity and think of a whole new culture and make artifacts that go with it.It also helped me be creative by exposing my brain to have to make up a culture from scratch and make sure that it would make sense.

MATTEO
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The dig taught me that other than just how cultures work and are found out  (It did teach me that), But it also taught and helped me better my skills of working in a group.
-Matias

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During the DIG, I created a puzzle that was related to government, which is not very usual. The DIG project made me more imaginative for ideas, solutions for problems, and much more. The puzzle could have been a picture, but there were words, meaning that if you put a piece upside down, then the puzzle was wrong.  You create things that could have been extraordinary. We met, we worked, and completed the  the project with deep thoughts. We also had creative ideas when we were trying to uncover the other group's artifacts. So overall, the DIG project made me more  creative.

-Ryan Zhang

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I think it is so much fun to come with a culture with mostly anything you want.
- Aashi Dugar

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It has made me a more creative person because it helped make me look at a different perspective of things.
-Allison

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With the DIG you had to create a different kind of culture. You really had to think about what you were going to make that would represent your cultural universal. Every thing you made did not have to make sense to everyone, it just had to make sense to you. The DIG not only helped me become more creative, but it also helped me learn to work better in a group. The DIG was an interesting and fun project!
- Kendall

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The dig has really pushed my limits of problem solving within a group. I also thought the project was lots of fun too.
-Jack Cook

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The DIG made me think outside of the box and really come up with  new and different ideas.  It also helped me be a better leader and better at collecting information but it did not help me be creative but it did help exercise my the fact of being creative.
- Michael Y

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Working on the DIG made me look in things in a different way. It also helped me learn new things and work with people.
Laura

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The dig has made me a little bit creative because for me I am very creative like always.  Maybe the dig helped my skills on getting along and get more ideas for my ideas.

MERIK-EZY

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The DIG was extremely fun. I learned a lot about cultural universals and improved my ability to work in a group and cooperate with others but I don't think of myself of as any more creative. I don't think that I learned anything new about being more imaginative.

-Lucas

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The DIG made me more creative and think in different ways to solve problems. The DIG also made me work better in a group.

- Soren

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I think the Dig project was the best social studies project now and on going. The Dig project made me have to think about how word cultures work and used that to help me do my part in my culture. The dig project made me a little more creative but not much. I used things that might not seem helpful and the worked.  The funnest part was using the rosette stone an decoding things. and sometimes we had to get creative. -Aidan Jacques :)

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The dig project was fun an interesting and it helped me learn about the cultural universals. But i'm not sure if it made me a more creative person , but I did come up with interesting ideas that was a little creative. - Owen

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yes the in the dig we had to use our imaginations but I think it just helped me learn more about cultural universals and help me work better with a team.

-Jazzy J

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It helped me be more creative by forcing me to come up with interesting ideas that can help create a culture, but I was not present for some of the project(the digging and some of the piecing together). I did make 2 artifacts using creativity to show how the artifact was used.
-Julia

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I think the DIG made me a more creative person because we had to think of a whole new culture. We had to think outside the box when we were making artifacts and when we were decoding what the other artifacts meant. I didn't know what to build for the cultural universe I was assigned to. After a few people showed me what they had done I got the idea and got to work. When we were decoding the artifacts, I got to see what other people did and it was fun trying to figure out what they meant. It made me a more creative and a more out of the box thinker.

Sanika

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I think that the DIG did help me become a more creative person because I got to make artifacts and try to create a entire culture within just a few weeks. Another reason I think that I am more creative is that I had to think about another culture that I had no ideas about and try to piece it together. During the DIG I got to work with a group so it has also made me more cooperative. I also learned all about cultural universals. That is why I think that I became a more creative person during the DIG.

-Andrew Ji :)

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I think yes because because the dig helped me think of how other people live,eat and build shelter's etc... also it made me think of creative questions like what is it? what is it used for? how was it made? The last reason the dig made me creative is getting asigned a cultural universe that I didn't know much about
-Andrew Abousleiman

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I think yes because it helped me learn how to create things and more ways people can live and more thing people can express, and it can also make you think about how others might have though about something  -David Ge

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Yes because the in the DIG I needed to be very creative to make artifacts that other people and decipher and see if it makes sense.

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Yes because the in the DIG I needed to be very creative to make artifacts that other people and decipher and see if it makes sense.

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I mean, the DIG was a great activity that helped you with collaborating with your friends and thinking like archaelogists, but it didn't focus you that much on creativity. You had to make artifacts and all, and your using your creativity, but that doesn't mean it expands it. We had to do a specific culture, and focus our artifacts on it, so you aren't just thinking about anything and making anything that comes to mind. There was great stuff in the DIG though. It was very fun decoding some of the artifacts and putting the other groups culture together piece by piece. The DIG will be a memory that I won't forget for a long time. I hope we do more fun activities like this throughout the year.
-Emilia K. :]

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Seeing how creative our culture is, it has inspired me to  be more creative. I did not expect our culture to be the way it is now, but I still like it. I also think the culture we dug up has inspired me to be more creative, too.

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The DIG not only lets me use my critical thinking skills (with partners too!) but it also lets me be creative with artifacts. We decode stuff, we make stuff, we interact with stuff! It's all hands on!
~Chrisy D

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I think the DIG helped me come a more creative person. It made me think of things that I wouldn't have thought of before. It also allowed me to use my creativity to piece together their culture. My favorite part of the DIG was learning not only about cultural universals, but learning how learning is more than just worksheets, its being creative with your ideas and understanding what would happen in real life. I think the DIG was a great team building, creative, real life project.

-Reagan C. Exley

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I think the DIG made me a more creative person because we had to be think of a totally new idea and think outside the box which requires creativity. Also, we had to decode another groups culture, which also required me to be creative since I had to really piece together a culture from scratch.
That is why I think the dig made me more creative.

Alina Liu

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I think the DIG helped me stretch my creativity further. I really enjoyed pretending to be an Archaeologist, and my favorite part of the DIG was coming up with our culture's universals and trying to piece together the other culture's universals. I think these activities take a lot of thought and imagination which has made me a much more creative person. Overall I think participating in the DIG has been a wonderful experience. -Anna C.

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I think it helped me a lot with my creativity and also my team work we had to make all the artifacts fit together like a puzzle. - Adithya

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It made me improve my skills to work in a group and my knowledge of cultural universals, but it didn't change my own creativity. It made me think deeper into problem solving and leadership. It will never change how creative I am throughout my life.
-Kaitlin

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Doing the dig is a creative way to have fun and learn. By doing this project I have learned the 10 cultural universals and helped me learn how to puzzle others and help myself be more creative by taking others creations and giving there my own touch to make an even cooler culture.

-William G.

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I think in general I am pretty creative and good at art. We did a lot of working with art in this project, which was very fun and probably helped with creativity. We had to think very creatively about what our cultures would be about and that was hard. When you are trying to decipher the groups from the other class, you have to think outside of the box, as it could be anything that they wanted in their culture. I honestly think that this helped me be a lot more creative just based on the fact that this project had a lot to do with figuring things out and making sure things were reasonable.

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The DIG helped me learn how to be creative and think of new ideas. My group had a good background of the culture and We made the best of it! The Dig was a great way for me to learn how to  be more creative
-Mia *<:-]

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I think doing the DIG is a fun project and in it I learned a lot about cultural universals but I am a very creative person and I am not more creative now than when I started the DIG. Also I have done more creative things than the DIG ----Viraj

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I think the dig improved my creativity skills because it also helps me infer on other peoples cultures. It also helps because you create artifacts for your group and it boosts your imagination. The dig helps me visualize what the descriptions say and helps me imagine how they would look like. The dig also is a very fun project and it makes me look forward to doing it.
-Triston

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I think that the DIG made me more creative because I got to decode confusing languages and make confusing languages. I also got to figure out what other people made and try to see what their culture is about and piece all the artifacts together and to see what other people made

-Calvin

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I think the dig helped me be more creative because you had to make up a culture. It can be hard to agree  on something or even just making an idea. It can also be challenging to tie all the Cultural Universals together to make the culture. I think you had to be creative when you try to piece together another culture.That is why I think the dig helped me more to be a creative person.

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DIG helped me be more creative because I got to make artifacts that were used in daily life as opposed to just giving clues about our culture (thinking outside the box). Also decoding the other cultures made me more creative because some of the cultures were SO WACKY :P
-Amber Lu :)

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Doing the DIG project has made me think more about different ways and making the artifact makes you work creatively to show something about your culture. Making the culture in general was an activity that made you think creatively. Creating the culture made you create your ideas on your cultural universal. The DIG makes you think outside the box with what you want to put inside your cultures box. The analyzing is another reason. While my group was    trying to figure out what the other culture was I had to stretch my mind and creatively use the artifacts in order to solve the mysteries of the other culture. Those are some of the reasons why the DIG made me a more creative person.

Michael Hong

P.S. Good job Bunch 3

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The DIG helps me because it  forces me to think about different points of view.  We had to think up the culture, create the artifacts, and dig the artifacts of another group and discover what their culture is. I think that that really boosts your creativity .

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I think it made me more creative because it made me think about what you need to make. It's hard to think of something that is in your cultural universe and goes with your culture.

- Tyler

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I think the DIG made me more creative because you had to think of a totally new idea and make something related to it. The DIG helped me think outside the box, and that requires a lot of creativity.

That is why I think the DIG made me a lot more creative.
-Sarina Li

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I think the DIG made me more creative because you had to come up with your entire new ( hopefully creative ) 'culture' with your group, then make artifacts that represented your cultural universal. Next, when you dig up the artifacts of the corresponding culture, you have to be creative and think about all the things the artifact could be/represent. That takes a lot of, and helps develop, your creativity. That is why I think it made me more creative.
-Sarah

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I think I have always been a very artsy and creative person, but for the DIG you had to think outside of outside the box. It was very challenging while being super fun. We had think up a lot of made up nonsense for our made up culture. Some of my groups details do not make sense at all but still easy to de-code. Also trying to figure out the other groups culture took a lot of creativity because some things were very easy to understand while others, like the language and number system, felt like they were almost impossible. We also had to be extremely imaginative when we were making up artifacts that had to go with our cultural universal. Some people did not get the universal that they wanted but everyone had to be flexible( not literally).  That is why I think that the DIG made me more creative.
- LILY

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Personally, I think I'm pretty creative, but the DIG made me think more widely. Some examples of what we had todo were think of a creative culture, which is sometimes tricky because not everybody may think some ideas are suitable and make artifacts that represent parts of our culture and what we believe in. This was sometimes hard because for some things, like shelter, because you had to think of some way to make an artifact that would be possible to represent that without over-doing it. I'm really enjoying this project and looking forward to meeting with the other team tomorrow to discuss and reveal our cultures. Today was really fun and I think it's nice that this time, we get to actually meet the civilization and mark our findings true or false. -Coco

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We had to make artifacts, think of our group name, think of our time, and think of our setting. That requires creativity. Also, we had to make artifacts that represent our culture. That can be hard and requires a lot of creativity. For example, if your culture is really complicated (like it's about potatoes and the illuminati and the vice president is a frog), it can be hard to think of some artifacts to come up with.

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I always was a creative person and the dig didn't change anything. I don't think a activity would change how creative I am. The dig was fun and it was a activity that required creativity, but it didn't change how creative I am.

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I feel that I was already a very creative person. Even though this was a creative activity I do not feel it made me more creative.

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Being in the DIG has made me a more creative person because you have to think about things that may or may not be considered normal. Or when you are making your own culture, it cannot be related too much to our world.

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Participating in the DIG has made me a more creative person because, our group had to come up with a culture, and when making a culture you need to think big, and be creative. Also when making an artifact you have to be creative with your design so that the person who digs it up knows what it is. That is why participating in the DIG made me a more creative person.