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Students use 12 random phrases to create a story that takes place in space!
Click up an interesting, visual writing prompt suitable for any grade or purpose.
We tell students to ‘show, not tell’ — but that advice is useless until they experience the difference. This lesson makes it click.
Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?
Reduce anxiety by breathing in a square pattern.
We’ll show students how to add more variety to their writing by starting sentences with a reason, a prepositional phrase, and a simile.
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?
Rather than just memorizing word parts, students will use those word parts to create four possible products.
Can someone do the right thing, but for the wrong reason?
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?
Learn to lead a lesson that is built entirely on student curiosity.
A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!
You only have six digits to form three fractions. Can you combine them to get to 0?
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.
A passage from “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.
We’ll start with the cliché “as cold as ice” and go somewhere much more interesting.
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.
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.
How I accidentally discouraged curiosity in my classroom.
The Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum, the Sydney Opera House — group them, pick the best from each group, then design your own.
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.
Reduce anxiety by learning to “change the channel.”
Adults can limit anxiety by implementing the Five Question Rule.
Your students will set up a tournament to determine which person or character best demonstrated resiliency.
Let’s use factors to encode and decode words.
What’s going on in this room? There are shoes everywhere! Are those… oranges? Let’s make some inferences!
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?
Do you know someone who becomes a bit overexcited by ideas?
