The effects of creative thinking activities on the creative web design of the elementary school students

The aim of this research is to realize the effects of creative thinking activities, in the 8th step `I am creating a website? unit of 7th grade elementary school information and communication course book, on students? self-efficacy about web design and creating a creative website.The study has been carried out from real experimental design suitably to pretest posttest control group design and applied in two different elementary school classes of 7th grade students in İzmit, Kocaeli.26 students have taken place in the study group, 13 of them being the control group and the other 13 being the experimental group. Both the experimental and control groups have been chosen randomly. The unit `I am creating a website? has been presented with creative thinking activities in the experimental group and with traditional methods in the control group.The research has shown that statistically there is no significant difference between experimental and control groups in terms of having the sense of self-sufficiency regarding web design. In addition to this, self-sufficiency of the students in the experimental group has shown an increase just like the students in the control group. Although, the students of the experimental group are better in general design as it is seen in the success point, there is no difference in terms of creativity.Keywords: Creative thinking methods, creating an original website, self sufficiency about web design