Playlist: Bookmarks
Domesticated Animals Tournament
Which domesticated animal will win the tournament?
Compare and Create New Year’s Traditions
Hey! Our New Year traditions have a lot in common.
Categorize and Re-Categorize Animals
Put these animals into groups. Then do it again. Then… do it one more time. How does re-re-grouping the same creatures reveal new patterns and give new insights?
Think Like A Historian
Here’s how effects be causes and causes can be effects!
Writing About Art: The Scream
Your students will turn the iconic painting The Scream into a vivid, sensory poem.
A Lunar Survival Mission
A favorite of mine! This task is delightfully complex and ambiguous, forcing students to make choices without enough information and with no right answer. How will they survive on the moon for three days?
Inferring With Art: A Man
What’s going on in this painting? Who is that guy? What’s his job? And where’s his other boot?
Generalization: Change Leads to More Change
Can you think of a time in your life when “Change lead to more change?”
Generalization: Problems Lead to New Rules, Which Lead to New Problems
Problems create rules. Rules create new problems. Can you trace the cycle in history, stories, and your own life?
Student Introductions With Depth and Frames
Want to introduce the tools of Depth and Complexity and learn more about your students and introduce the Frame graphic organizer? Have I got the activity for you!
An App For A Historical Figure
What kind of an app could have helped Abe Lincoln accomplish his goals?
Motivation and Moral Development
Can someone do the right thing, but for the wrong reason?