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Grade 1

• Strand 1

  • 1.1.A
  • 1.1.B
  • 1.1.C
  • 1.1.D
  • 1.1.E

• Strand 2

  • 1.2.A
  • 1.2.A.i
  • 1.2.A.ii
  • 1.2.A.iii
  • 1.2.A.iv
  • 1.2.A.v
  • 1.2.A.vi
  • 1.2.A.vii
  • 1.2.B
  • 1.2.B.i
  • 1.2.B.ii
  • 1.2.B.iii
  • 1.2.B.iv
  • 1.2.B.v
  • 1.2.B.vi
  • 1.2.C
  • 1.2.C.i
  • 1.2.C.ii
  • 1.2.C.iii
  • 1.2.C.iv
  • 1.2.D
  • 1.2.E
  • 1.2.F

• Strand 3

  • 1.3.A
  • 1.3.B
  • 1.3.C
  • 1.3.D

• Strand 4

  • 1.4

• Strand 5

  • 1.5

• Strand 6

  • 1.6.A
  • 1.6.B
  • 1.6.C
  • 1.6.D
  • 1.6.E
  • 1.6.F
  • 1.6.G
  • 1.6.H
  • 1.6.I

• Strand 7

  • 1.7.A
  • 1.7.B
  • 1.7.C
  • 1.7.D
  • 1.7.E
  • 1.7.F

• Strand 8

  • 1.8.A
  • 1.8.B
  • 1.8.C
  • 1.8.D

• Strand 9

  • 1.9.A
  • 1.9.B
  • 1.9.C
  • 1.9.D
  • 1.9.D.i
  • 1.9.D.ii
  • 1.9.D.iii
  • 1.9.E
  • 1.9.F

• Strand 10

  • 1.10.A
  • 1.10.B
  • 1.10.C
  • 1.10.D
  • 1.10.E

• Strand 11

  • 1.11.A
  • 1.11.B
  • 1.11.B.i
  • 1.11.B.ii
  • 1.11.C
  • 1.11.D
  • 1.11.D.i
  • 1.11.D.ii
  • 1.11.D.iii
  • 1.11.D.iv
  • 1.11.D.v
  • 1.11.D.vi
  • 1.11.D.vii
  • 1.11.D.viii
  • 1.11.D.ix
  • 1.11.D.x
  • 1.11.E

• Strand 12

  • 1.12.A
  • 1.12.B
  • 1.12.C

• Strand 13

  • 1.13.A
  • 1.13.B
  • 1.13.C
  • 1.13.D
  • 1.13.E

TEKS ELA Standard: 1.6.D

create mental images to deepen understanding with adult assistance

Gr 1-8

Recursive Island

Vulcan Point Island is an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island

Drawing A 3D Staircase

This optical illusion looks like a 3D staircase, but it’s all drawn on a plain piece of paper.

Optical Illusion: Two Tables

These two tables are the same size. But how!?

Martial Arts in Space

Shaolin kung fu students as seen from a satellite.

Emoji Stories 👁️

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

Gr 2-8

Van Gogh on Water

Oil paint floats on water and becomes a familiar scene.

How to Reset Your Brain When You’re Flooded

Allison Edwards explains how changing your senses can reset your brain.

Gr 1-8

Frozen Bubble

What happens when you blow a bubble in below-freezing temperatures?

Lego Shadow Spinner

Watch this block of Lego cast three completely different shadows of three distinctly different objects! How’d he do it?

Super Specific Similes – Slimy Broccoli

Start with a basic simile. Now make it more specific. Now even more. Watch how much better writing gets with each round.

Gr 1-8

Squiggles Introduction

What do you see in this squiggle?

Gr 1-3

Squiggles Collection 2

Everyone starts with the same squiggle. No two drawings end up the same. What do you see?

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8

Drawing An Impossible Triangle

Here’s how you can draw The Penrose Triangle, an example of an impossible shape.

Gr 1-2

Microchess (Chess Variant)

What if we played chess on a board that’s only 4×5?

Gr 1-8

Drawing Knots, Level 3

How to draw the final version of the twisty Henri Matisse knot!

Gr 1-2

Drawing Knots, Level 2

How to draw a more complex version of this twisty Henri Matisse knot!

Gr 1-2

Drawing Knots, Level 1

How to draw a simple version of this twisty Henri Matisse knot!

Gr 1-2

Fancier Figurative Language: Use the Opposite

Let’s start with “As cold as fire.”

Gr 1-8

Thinking With Art: Head Down

One artist, two paintings. Notice details, compare, synthesize, then find a parallel in another creator’s work.

Gr 1-8

Inferring With Art: A Couple

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

Gr 1-8

Art Lesson: One-Point Perspective

Let’s give our students an art history lesson while teaching them how to enhance their drawings using one-point perspective.

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Art Lesson: Two-Point Perspective

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

Gr 1-8

Self Portraits: Pointillism

Turn your students into a bunch of Monets with q-tips and some tempera paint.

Gr 1-8

What’s In My Brain: Cute Baby vs Fast Cheetah

Can students spot similes vs metaphors?

Gr 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

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.

Gr 1-8

How to Play Go

Ready to learn a 2,500-year-old Chinese board game? Let’s… Go!

Gr 1-8

Reduce Anxiety: Brain Plate (Tool 3)

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.

Gr 1-8

Reduce Anxiety: Change The Channel (Tool 2)

Reduce anxiety by learning to “change the channel.”

Gr 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Reduce Anxiety: Square Breathing (Tool 1)

Reduce anxiety by breathing in a square pattern.

Gr 1-8

Add Layers To Direct Instruction

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

Gr 1-8