TEKS ELA Standard: 5.1.B

Domino Chain Takes 10,000 Steps

Omni-Directional Sidewinder Forklift

unscrew a lightbulb and then screw a new one in

origami caterpillar

a 3D staircase

folds and launches paper airplanes

toss leftover tea in -40°C

Drawing A 3D Staircase

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

Greekymon Studies – Round 2

What might a creature named “Hypermnemonicus” be like?

Path Cipher (Codes Part 4)

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

Shift Cipher (Codes Part 1)

Let’s encode and decode secret messages like Julius Caesar!

Word Pyramid: D to ASIDE

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

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!

Four Player Chess

Tired of boring ol’ chess? Then you need to try FOUR PLAYER chess!

Game: Wild Tic Tac Toe

Imagine Tic-Tac-Toe, but both players can both play as both X and O throughout the whole game!

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!

Bulls and Cows

How quickly can you break the numeric code?

Chomp

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

Game: Notakto

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

Sprouts

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