Playlist: Bookmarks
Words Within Words: ORNAMENT
How many words can you find within ORNAMENT?
Squiggles Introduction
What do you see in this squiggle?
Squiggles Collection 1
Everyone starts with the same squiggle. No two drawings end up the same. What do you see?
Lipogram: Rewrite “Twinkle, Twinkle”
What if we rewrote a piece of writing without using certain letters?
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?
Special Gifts with Special Requirements
Your special friends sure have some unique gift needs!
What’s In My Brain!? Walnut vs Clouds
Let’s look at living vs non-living things.
Introducing Universal Theme of Systems
So what could you do with a Universal Theme of Systems? Well, here’s an introduction that will get your students’ brains sweating.
Drawing Knots, Level 1
How to draw a simple version of this twisty Henri Matisse knot!
Tournament: 8 Wonders of the Solar System
Which location is the most wondrous place in the solar system?
Not Like The Others: Branches of the US Government
How is each part of the United States Government not like the other parts?
Create A Civilization: Design A Flag
What makes for a good flag? What makes a bad flag?
How Many Will There Be? Flowers
These flowers sure are getting bigger faster! How large will they be in step 10? What about step 50?
An Escher-Style Tessellation Project
Create a piece of repeating art in the style of MC Escher!
Addition: 3 Digits Plus 2 Digits (Multiple Solutions)
Typical practice problems don’t move students up Bloom’s Taxonomy. With this framework, you’ll see kids stop and really think about how to approach multi-digit addition.
Disneyland Parking Structure Math Project
Your students will use estimation strategies to figure out how many parking spots are there in the parking structure at Disneyland? And you bet I reveal the real answer!
Ghost
Ghost is a word-building game for two players. The first person to create an actual word loses.
Undoing Multiplication With Division
Multiplication and division, natural foes, are constantly seeking to undo each other. Students will attempt to reverse the effects of multiplication by dividing once, twice, or even thrice!
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!
Math Curiosity: The Coloring Problem
No video gets me more email from students! How few colors can you use to color in any map so that no two, neighboring regions are the same color?
Col – A Strategy Game
The first person to run out of regions loses in this strategy game.
Investigating Cost of Living
Would you save money if you lived in Las Vegas and commuted every day to San Francisco?
Educational Valentines
Let’s make valentines with an educational twist!
How Many Students Can Fit On The Playground?
So… just how many kids could we cram onto the playground?
Reduce Anxiety: Square Breathing (Tool 1)
Reduce anxiety by breathing in a square pattern.