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?

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

Create and print mazes for your students – with bonus side quests!

You could keep zooming in on this snowflake forever!

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

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!

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

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!

It’s Hamlet in just about five minutes!

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

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

It’s a car made out of Lego with a working engine.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Watch astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti cook a meal in zero gravity on the International Space Station.

Who can guess the codeword first?

The story of the Fabergé Eggs is heartbreaking. It’s also the perfect way to build empathy in your classroom.

So, what can a cardboard tube be used for other than holding wrapping paper?

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

Learn how to play the abstract, paper-and-pencil game Sprouts.

Various desserts melt in surprisingly different ways.

How fast do you get your mathematical car going without crashing?

Oil paint floats on water and becomes a familiar scene.

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

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

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

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

What do you see in this squiggle?

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

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?