The purpose of the study was to explore the characteristics of teaching-learning processes that creativity emerges and find the implications for the teaching-learning methods to promote students' creativity in regular instructions at schools. To fulfill the research purpose, the qualitative case study method has implemented; observation of social studies and science instructions of the 14 classrooms including lower, middle, and higher grades in three elementary schools. The research findings were as follows. First, the characteristics of teaching-learning processes were differed in the beginning, development, and concluding stages. In the beginning stage, the teachers provided students various familiar materials to find the theme of the lesson rather than providing it directly. In the development stage, the teachers tried to let the students explore the concepts (knowledge) and internalize it. Then in the concluding stage, the teachers provided new situations which the students could apply (externalize) the internalized knowledge. The common factors found in all of the three stages were; 1) providing the contexts of authentic situations, 2) keeping the students' curiosity and interests, 3) promoting students to discover new knowledge, and 4) facilitating critical and divergent thinking. Also in all of the three processes, questions raised by teacher were critical to nurture creativity. These factors found in the study should be considered if the teachers want to facilitate students' creativity in regular subject matter teaching.