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TEKS ELA Standard: 6.1.B
follow 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
Marble Course All Around the Backyard
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.
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?
Parabolic Curve Art
Create mathematical art with curves that, well, aren’t curvy.
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!
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!
Game: Order and Chaos
Imagine Tic-Tac-Toe if both players could play as both Xs and Os!
Chomp
Chomp away at your opponent in this grid-based strategy game.
Col – A Strategy Game
The first person to run out of regions loses in this 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.
How to Play Go
Ready to learn a 2,500-year-old Chinese board game? Let’s… Go!