Alabama ELA Standard: 6.DL.11

Crosswords, image analysis, and writing prompts for Halloween!

Students explore the idea of indirect power – which can be both visible (a lighthouse) or invisible (magnetism).

Sure, a Blue Whale is huge. But does a tiny krill have more power?

Students will determine what makes a hero a hero.

Click up an interesting, visual writing prompt suitable for any grade or purpose.

Create mathematical art with curves that, well, aren’t curvy.

Look closely at Twilight in the Wilderness. What do you notice? Now turn those details into a poem you didn’t know you could write.

What makes for a good flag? What makes a bad flag?

Pick a few numbers, draw some corresponding lines on grid paper, and you’ll end up with some interesting, looping math-y art!

A favorite of mine! This task is delightfully complex and ambiguous, forcing students to make choices without enough information and with no right answer. How will they survive on the moon for three days?

Turn your students into a bunch of Monets with q-tips and some tempera paint.

Which resource is more renewable? And which is easier to find?

Ever ask students to create research questions? Were their ideas a bit… blah? My own students had a very hard time writing questions they didn’t already know the answer to! This video is how I solved that problem: upgrade research questions with depth and complexity.

What if you only played Tic-Tac-Toe with Xs and you could play on multiple boards?

Why 12 months? Why 30ish days? Why 7 days in a week? Your civilization could organize a year in any way you want!

This underutilized tool focuses students on what we don’t yet know and even what we can’t know.

Take direction instruction beyond a monotonous practice of the same skill over and over.