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Learn to lead a lesson that is built entirely on student curiosity.

A passage from “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

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

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Just because a task is “creative” doesn’t mean students are at the top of Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Have you ever noticed that some stories have awfully similar problems? What if we looked for the most unusual way of solving a repeating problem?

We’ll take two seemingly unrelated pieces of content (say volcanoes and the human body) and then build analogies to connect the two ideas. In the end, students can create a skit, comic, or story relating the two concepts.

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Adults can learn to help students reduce anxiety with the tool Worry Time.

Rather than just memorizing word parts, students will use those word parts to create four possible products.

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Adults can limit anxiety by implementing the Five Question Rule.

You only have six digits to form three fractions. Can you combine them to get to 0?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Students use 12 random phrases to create a story that takes place in space!

Do you know someone who becomes a bit overexcited by ideas?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Reduce anxiety by learning to “change the channel.”

Place value is something we cover in elementary school. It seems simple, but I’d wager that very few adults really understand the topic. I sure didn’t until I worked with non-base-10 number systems in college. Your students can get a taste of this mind-boggling experience by imagining what it would be like if we didn’t have the number 9. What would each digit represent then?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

The Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum, the Sydney Opera House — group them, pick the best from each group, then design your own.

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Want something to do during the holiday season that is both fun and involves thinking? Get students writing about what a snowman would think about Halloween or what a ghost would think about Thanksgiving.

Let’s use factors to encode and decode words.

We tell students to ‘show, not tell’ — but that advice is useless until they experience the difference. This lesson makes it click.

How I accidentally discouraged curiosity in my classroom.

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

No video gets me more email from students! How few colors can you use to color in any map so that no two, neighboring regions are the same color?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Can someone do the right thing, but for the wrong reason?

What’s going on in this room? There are shoes everywhere! Are those… oranges? Let’s make some inferences!

We’ll show students how to add more variety to their writing by starting sentences with a reason, a prepositional phrase, and a simile.

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

When a student’s brain is full of worries, everything feels urgent. Brain Plate helps them sort what’s real from what’s noise — and actually do something about it.

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Two tiny parentheses. One expression. How big of a change can they make? Bigger than you think.

Your students will set up a tournament to determine which person or character best demonstrated resiliency.

When fractions take on a new denominator, it’s as if they’re wearing a disguise – same value, new look. So let’s write a story about fraction equivalence starring a fraction who needs to fit in with a new group.

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

How would people with two different perspectives discuss a decision from history?

We’ll start with the cliché “as cold as ice” and go somewhere much more interesting.

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Why are there 12 months? Why don’t weeks fit into months evenly? Why don’t weeks fit into the year evenly? What’s going on with the calendar!

Reduce anxiety by breathing in a square pattern.