Science
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?
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
Which of these planets is not like others? Well, it sure looks simple at first. But quickly, you start to realize… there's more to it than you thought. Each option could be the one that doesn't fit in.
Create a new creature based on the adaptations of existing creatures from the same biome.
Using real bridges as their starting point, students will construct bridges out of straws and paperclips.
Students will determine which type of natural disaster is not like the others.
How is each of the states of matter not like the others?
Sure, students might know the difference between a producer and a consumer… but have they considered how they feel about each other? What, in a producer's opinion, are the pros and cons of a consumer?
Your students will create a new flower, designed to attract a specific pollinator.
The Nile, the Tigris, the Euphrates, the Seine, the Thames, and now... your river!
Which animal has the most interesting, most valuable, or strangest adaptations?
Want to move beyond memorizing the characteristics of biomes? In this lesson, students work through a Tournament of Biomes, explaining which biome wins in each round (based on criteria you choose). In the end, they crown a đź‘‘ Champion Biome!
Which location is the most wondrous place in the solar system?
What would an igneous rock be like? Would it get along with a sedimentary rock? Could they handle the hot personality of a metamorphic rock?
Students will determine which creature of the tundra is not like the others.
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Who will win in a tournament of eight plants with Interesting adaptations!?
Let's look at living vs non-living things.
Students will determine which US National Park is not like the others.
Which inventor and invention will win the tournament?
Some of these examples are conductors and some are insulators!
Which resource is more renewable? And which is easier to find?
How is each of these stars not like the others?
Can your class spot the vertebrates vs invertebrates?
Which object in the solar system is most habitable?
Students will determine which type of penguin is not like the others.
Some of these animals are nocturnal and some are diurnal.
Eight types of precipitation battle it out in this tournament.
What if a capybara and a kangaroo rat switched homes? Would their adaptations be helpful at all?
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Who will win the tournament of Natural Disasters!?
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Which of these types of volcanoes is not like the others?
Is it an island or an archipelago?
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
Which of these rocks is not like the others?
Which type of energy will win the tournament!?
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Your students will be surprised by the size of this turbine… and by what's hanging from it!
Which of these four birds is not like the others?
Let's look at Kinetic vs Potential Energy!
Is it a reptile or an amphibian?
Students will determine which snake of the rainforest is not like the others.
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Let's look at misnomers - things with the wrong name!
Which of these rainforests is not like the others?
Which parts of a cell serve a similar job to the parts of a cruise ship, human body, computer, or other system?
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Which of these deserts is not like the others?
We're looking at the arctic vs the antarctic.
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Students will determine which of these types of diseases is not like the others.
Students will determine which type of ant is not like the others.
Students will determine which flower is not like the others.
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
Students will determine which of these microorganisms is not like the others.
Students will determine which desert bird is not like the others.
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
Let's look at saltwater vs freshwater organisms.
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A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
Let's look at deciduous vs coniferous trees.
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A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
Students will determine which cephalopod is not like the others.
Students will determine which river is not like the others.
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
We're looking at inventions vs discoveries.
We're looking at carnivores vs omnivores.
We're looking at magnetic vs. non-magnetic materials.