Power can be Visible or Invisible

What are examples of unseen Power? And can invisible power be more powerful than visible power?

Concept Attainment: Art

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

Art Lesson: Two-Point Perspective

Let’s get students’ art really popping with two-point perspective!

How Renewable Is That Resource?

Which resource is more renewable? And which is easier to find?

Game: Notakto

What if you only played Tic-Tac-Toe with Xs and you could play on multiple boards?

Create A Civilization: Calendars

Why 12 months? Why 30ish days? Why 7 days in a week? Your civilization could organize a year in any way you want!

Content Imperatives: Paradox

How can one idea pull in opposite directions, being both true and false or right and wrong at the same time? It’s time to explore Paradoxes!

Content Imperatives: Parallel

Get students thinking broadly by exploring similarities across multiple topics. Combine with Depth and Complexity for bonus points!

Depth and Complexity: 📈 Trends

Has something been changing recently? What might be causing that? What are the effects?

Depth and Complexity: 🚦 Rules

Is there a consequence for not doing something? You may have found a rule!

Depth and Complexity: 📚 Across Disciplines

No topic is an island! With the 📚 Across Disciplines prompt, students note connections within and across multiple fields.

Depth and Complexity: Patterns

Can your students spot anything that repeats? Or that has stopped repeating?

Drawing Natural Curves Like Andy Goldsworthy

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

Reduce Anxiety: Change The Channel (Tool 2)

Reduce anxiety by learning to “change the channel.”

Add Layers To Direct Instruction

For Teachers

Take direction instruction beyond a monotonous practice of the same skill over and over.