Playlist: Bookmarks

Wind-Powered Strandbeest Walks the Beach

Hot Dog Built With Construction Equipment

Time-Lapse Volcano Eruption

Contig

Roll three dice and combine them using any mathematical operation. But be strategic to maximize your points!

New Uses For A Cardboard Tube

So, what can a cardboard tube be used for other than holding wrapping paper?

Words Within Words: SCARECROW

How many words can you find within “scarecrow”?

How Many Will There Be? Chip Off The Block

Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.

Stories with the Same Problems and Solutions

Have you ever noticed that some stories have awfully similar problems? What if we looked for the most unusual way of solving a repeating problem?

Think Like A Historian

Here’s how effects be causes and causes can be effects!

Ultimate (or Inception) Tic Tac Toe

What if each square on a Tic-Tac-Toe board had another Tic-Tac-Toe board inside of it?

Writing About Art: The Scream

Your students will turn the iconic painting The Scream into a vivid, sensory poem.

Game: Number Scrabble

What if we played Tic-Tac-Toe with numbers and instead of three-in-a-row, we add up to 15? Well… then we’d have Number Scrabble!

Invisible Power Can Have Visible Effects

Can you think of times when power is unseen, but we can clearly see its effects?

Punctuation Power

In a sentence, punctuation may seem meek when compared to those mighty words, but punctuation has incredible power over the meaning of a sentence. Students will try re-punctuating sentences to find new meanings – without changing a single word!

Writing Seuss Style Poetry

Sure, Dr. Seuss wrote for young students, but can older students analyze his writing and learn to mimic his style? THEN, they can produce Seuss-style poetry about any topic: Ancient China, the electromagnetic spectrum, Pride and Prejudice, and (yes) fraction division!

Game: Order and Chaos

Imagine Tic-Tac-Toe if both players could play as both Xs and Os!

Same Perimeter, Different Area For Rectangles

Can two rectangles have the same perimeter but… different areas!?

Rounding Numbers (But Not To 10)

What could we possibly do to make rounding more interesting for students who already get it? In this series, students consider how they might round to values other than “the nearest 10.” How, for example, do we round to the nearest 9? 7? 15?

Math Curiosity: Magic Squares

Imagine a 3×3 square in which every row, column, and diagonal have the same sum. That’s a magic square!

The Resiliency Tournament

Your students will set up a tournament to determine which person or character best demonstrated resiliency.

Greekymon

Rather than just memorizing word parts, students will use those word parts to create four possible products.

Reduce Anxiety: Square Breathing (Tool 1)

Reduce anxiety by breathing in a square pattern.

The Game of 100

Who can get to 100 first in this simple, but delightful, math game?