Indiana ELA Standard: 8.W.5.a

Sometimes power is concentrated in one place. Other times it is spread out.

What if a capybara and a kangaroo rat switched homes? Would their adaptations be helpful at all?

Which of these deserts is not like the others?

How high-performing students can often feel like they aren’t really that great.

Ever ask students to create research questions? Were their ideas a bit… blah? My own students had a very hard time writing questions they didn’t already know the answer to! This video is how I solved that problem: upgrade research questions with depth and complexity.

Every topic has details that get glossed over in a sentence. Zoom in on one and you’ve got an entire unit hiding inside a paragraph.

Pull on one thread and watch the whole topic move. Contribution asks: what single factor is quietly shaping everything else?

This underutilized tool focuses students on what we don’t yet know and even what we can’t know.

Your students will create a new flower, designed to attract a specific pollinator.