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TEKS ELA Standard: 5.1.B

follow, restate, and give oral instructions that include multiple action steps

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
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
Greekymon Studies – Round 2
What might a creature named “Hypermnemonicus” be like?
Gr 1-8
Path Cipher (Codes Part 4)
Path Cipher (Codes Part 4)
Now let’s try the Path Cipher – a cipher that mixes things up even more than Zig Zag did.
Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8
Shift Cipher (Codes Part 1)
Shift Cipher (Codes Part 1)
Let’s encode and decode secret messages like Julius Caesar!
Gr 1-5
Word Pyramid: D to ASIDE
Word Pyramid: D to ASIDE
One letter. Add another. And another. How tall can you build the pyramid before you run out of words?
Gr 1-5
Drawing An Impossible Triangle
Drawing An Impossible Triangle
Here’s how you can draw The Penrose Triangle, an example of an impossible shape.
Gr 1-2
Drawing Knots, Level 1
Drawing Knots, Level 1
How to draw a simple version of this twisty Henri Matisse knot!
Gr 1-2
Sets of Idioms Related to Body Parts
Sets of Idioms Related to Body Parts
Five sets of five idioms, all related to body parts!
Gr 1-8
Four Player Chess
Four Player Chess
Tired of boring ol’ chess? Then you need to try FOUR PLAYER chess!
Gr 2-8
Game: Wild Tic Tac Toe
Game: Wild Tic Tac Toe
Imagine Tic-Tac-Toe, but both players can both play as both X and O throughout the whole game!
Gr 3-8
Art Lesson: Two-Point Perspective
Art Lesson: Two-Point Perspective
Let’s get students’ art really popping with two-point perspective!
Gr 1-8
An Escher-Style Tessellation Project
An Escher-Style Tessellation Project
Create a piece of repeating art in the style of MC Escher!
Gr 1-8
Game: Snakes
Game: Snakes
In this grid-based strategy game, who will be the last to add to the snake?
Gr 3-8
Math Game: Heaps
Math Game: Heaps
Try this a simple (but surprisingly strategic) subtraction game!
Gr 1-6
Game: Gomoku
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!
Gr 1-8
Bulls and Cows
Bulls and Cows
How quickly can you break the numeric code?
Gr 1-8
Chomp
Chomp
Chomp away at your opponent in this grid-based strategy game.
Gr 1-8
Game: Notakto
Game: Notakto
What if you only played Tic-Tac-Toe with Xs and you could play on multiple boards?
Gr 1-8
Sprouts
Sprouts
Learn how to play the abstract, paper-and-pencil game Sprouts.
Gr 1-8