Playlist: Bookmarks
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Theta
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Parts of Speech Party – Change
How many different ways can we use the word “change”? Let’s find out in this Parts of Speech Party!
Think Like A Historian
Here’s how effects be causes and causes can be effects!
Analyze Characters Using Philosophy
What is the Brick Pig’s philosophy? How would he apply it to the characters in Harry Potter?
Cram
Try this a simple (but surprisingly strategic) grid-filling game!
Paradox: Rebuilding A Ship
What if we completely rebuild something slowly? What if we completely rebuild it all at once? Is it still the same thing?
Think Like A Philosopher
What would Socrates have thought if he watched Frozen?
Ambiguous Sentences
Rather than just demand that students “write clearly,” we’ll explore the hazards of poorly written sentences… and maybe create one of our own!
Paragraphs: Systems of Sentences
Blow up a paragraph into individual sentences. Now reassemble it. The clues hiding in each sentence will surprise you.
Run On or Not? – What’s In My Brain
Can your students spot the run-on sentences?
Chomp
Chomp away at your opponent in this grid-based strategy game.
Dots and Boxes
Who can make the most boxes from dots in this strategy game?
Upgrading Compare and Contrast Writing
Upgrade compare and contrast writing with just a couple of key words.
Propaganda and Logical Fallacies
Let’s see how propaganda techniques can make even something great seem bad.
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Introduction
Your students will try to match up definitions that belong to the same homophone in this brain-boggling vocab puzzle.
Ways to Start a Sentence – Part 3
Your students’ sentences all start the same way. Here are three techniques that fix that overnight.
Teach Non-Fiction Writing Structure With Fractals
Did you ever notice that the structure of an essay is very similar to the structure of a paragraph? Hmm…
Think Like An Economist
How would an economist read Goldilocks? How would they see a rainforest? How would they study the American Revolution?