TEKS ELA Standard: 8.5.D

Rebus Puzzles

a clam burrow

Robin Eley paints Vermeer’s The Milkmaid

Zhongshuge Bookstore Walkthrough

surreal woolen carpets

hollow mask optical illusion

hot coffee as ice cubes are added

pancakes that look like bacon and eggs

60,000 magnetic spheres

Gears that form a cube

Hand-Painted Rock Portrait

optical-illusion sculptures

Blanket Octopus unfurl its colorful skin

100,000-Photo Composite of the Moon

a familiar Van Gogh scene

blend into its surroundings

inside a volcano

inside the sun’s corona

portrait of Jackie Chan

Dinosaur Optical Illusion

Deep Ocean Creatures Without Names

Recursive Island

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

Power can be Visible or Invisible

What are examples of unseen Power? And can invisible power be more powerful than visible power?

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?

How to Reset Your Brain When You’re Flooded

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

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?

Squiggles Collection 2

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

Drawing An Impossible Triangle

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

Microchess (Chess Variant)

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

Drawing Knots, Level 3

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

Drawing Knots, Level 2

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

Drawing Knots, Level 1

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

Fancier Figurative Language: Use the Opposite

Let’s start with “As cold as fire.”

Thinking With Art: Head Down

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

Inferring With Art: A Couple

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

Inferring With Art: Two Women

What are these two women up to? What’s that thing she’s holding? Let’s make some inferences!

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.

Art Lesson: Two-Point Perspective

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

Self Portraits: Pointillism

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

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

Can students spot similes vs metaphors?

How to Play Go

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

Introduce Symbolism with Pixel Art

Create a pixelated icon that represents the essence of a character!

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.

Reduce Anxiety: Change The Channel (Tool 2)

Reduce anxiety by learning to “change the channel.”

Reduce Anxiety: Square Breathing (Tool 1)

Reduce anxiety by breathing in a square pattern.

Add Layers To Direct Instruction

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