Enrichment

Asking students to “think creatively” won’t get you far. They won’t know how to start, they’ll get stuck with simple ideas, or they’ll just go completely wild. SCAMPER is a tool for scaffolding the process of creativity.

Who can get to 100 first in this simple, but delightful, math game?

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?

So what are some new ways to use a paperclip?

Your students will turn the iconic painting The Scream into a vivid, sensory poem.

In this grid-based strategy game, who will be the last to add to the snake?

Who can make the most boxes from dots in this strategy game?

Try this a simple (but surprisingly strategic) grid-filling game!

The only type of octopus that routinely wanders onto land!

A crocodile makes a deal. But the deal creates a paradox. Can your students untangle a 2,000-year-old logic puzzle?

What do you see in this squiggle?

What if we completely rebuild something slowly? What if we completely rebuild it all at once? Is it still the same thing?

Can you shred paper using just Lego?

Roll three dice and combine them using any mathematical operation. But be strategic to maximize your points!

Let’s give our students an art history lesson while teaching them how to enhance their drawings using one-point perspective.

What’s going on in this painting? Who is that guy? What’s his job? And where’s his other boot?

How to draw the final version of the twisty Henri Matisse knot!

St. Patrick Day’s themed word searches, crossword puzzle, reverse crossword, transition writing practice, and a math puzzle.

What if this triangle pattern just kept repeating… forever!?

How to draw a simple version of this twisty Henri Matisse knot!

What would the consequences be if all people lived much, much longer?

Ready for a tricky counting and divisibility game?

Can your students tell the difference between cubism and abstract art?

Want to take Tic-Tac-Toe to the next level!? Imagine a 15×15 board. You must get five-in-a-row. You cannot get six-in-a-row. That’s Gomoku!

What happens when you blow a bubble in below-freezing temperatures?

Try this a simple (but surprisingly strategic) subtraction game!

Worksheets for Earth Day! Featuring reading, writing, and math… with a pinch of Depth and Complexity.

You could keep zooming in on this snowflake forever!

Imagine Tic-Tac-Toe if both players could play as both Xs and Os!

Andy Goldsworthy turns leaves and stones into art. Your students will learn to draw his signature natural curves — then build on them.

Everyone starts with the same squiggle. No two drawings end up the same. What do you see?

The first person to run out of regions loses in this strategy game.

What if we rewrote a piece of writing without using certain letters?

What surprises can you spot when a kernel pops in super slow-mo?

Hey! Our New Year traditions have a lot in common.

It’s Hamlet in just about five minutes!

What would the consequences be if a town’s tap water became… unreliable?

Put these animals into groups. Then do it again. Then… do it one more time. How does re-re-grouping the same creatures reveal new patterns and give new insights?

Shakespeare’s Much Ado summarized in just five minutes!

How to draw a more complex version of this twisty Henri Matisse knot!

Vulcan Point Island is an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island

What if one side played with THREE QUEENS and the other had SEVEN KNIGHTS!? What if?