TEKS ELA Standard: 2.1.B

Domino Chain Takes 10,000 Steps

Omni-Directional Sidewinder Forklift

unscrew a lightbulb and then screw a new one in

cutting into individual leaves

origami caterpillar

a 3D staircase

folds and launches paper airplanes

toss leftover tea in -40°C

Marble Course All Around the Backyard

Making a Chain Link From a Red-Hot Rod

Drawing A 3D Staircase

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

Path Cipher (Codes Part 4)

Now let’s try the Path Cipher – a cipher that mixes things up even more than Zig Zag did.

Squiggles Introduction

What do you see in this squiggle?

Squiggles Collection 1

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

Word Pyramid: D to ASIDE

One letter. Add another. And another. How tall can you build the pyramid before you run out of words?

Back to School: Rewriting The Beatles’ “Help!”

Can your students come up with a one-syllable word to sum up their time away from school? And then rewrite The Beatles’ song Help!?

Drawing An Impossible Triangle

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

Drawing Knots, Level 1

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

Word Pyramid: I to LIONS

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Looping Grid Art

Pick a few numbers, draw some corresponding lines on grid paper, and you’ll end up with some interesting, looping math-y art!

Cram

Try this a simple (but surprisingly strategic) grid-filling game!

Word Ladder: Fast to Race (4 step)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Art Lesson: Two-Point Perspective

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

An Escher-Style Tessellation Project

Create a piece of repeating art in the style of MC Escher!

Game: Snakes

In this grid-based strategy game, who will be the last to add to the snake?

Math Game: Heaps

Try this a simple (but surprisingly strategic) subtraction game!

Game: Gomoku

Want to take Tic-Tac-Toe to the next level!? Imagine a 15×15 board. You must get five-in-a-row. You cannot get six-in-a-row. That’s Gomoku!

Chomp

Chomp away at your opponent in this grid-based strategy game.

Sprouts

Learn how to play the abstract, paper-and-pencil game Sprouts.

Depth and Complexity: 🚦 Rules

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