Playlist: Bookmarks
Holiday Shuffle – Day vs Date
Wouldn’t some holidays be better on a certain day of the week? Should Thanksgiving have a set date?
Getting Specific With St. Patrick’s Day Writing
Let’s take a starting phrase about St. Patrick’s Day and get specific. No, even more specific!
Tournament of Mythological Creatures
Who will win the tournament of mythological creatures!?
What’s In My Brain: Tree vs Tree
Let’s look at deciduous vs coniferous trees.
What’s In My Brain: Narwhal vs Penguin
We’re looking at the arctic vs the antarctic.
Emoji Stories 🏰
Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?
A Character’s Playlist
What playlist of songs best goes with a character’s change over time?
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?
Squiggles Collection 2
Everyone starts with the same squiggle. No two drawings end up the same. What do you see?
Idiom Tasks
Four fantastically terrific tasks for a weekly idiom study.
Lipogram: Rewrite “Mary Had A Little Lamb”
What if we rewrote a piece of writing without using certain letters?
What’s In My Brain!? Japan vs Jamaica
Is it an island or an archipelago?
What’s In My Brain!? Gold vs Wood
Some of these examples are conductors and some are insulators!
Not Like The Others: Microorganisms
Four microorganisms. One doesn’t belong. But which one? That depends on your argument.
Not Like The Others: US States
How is each of these states not like the others?
Concept Attainment: Art
Can your students tell the difference between cubism and abstract art?
An Escher-Style Tessellation Project
Create a piece of repeating art in the style of MC Escher!
Notice, Wonder: A Long Line
A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!
How Many Ways: Fraction Equivalence
How many different ways can you make this math statement true using only the digits one through nine?
Notice, Wonder: Climber
A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!
Investigating Christmas Trees
Start with facts about Christmas trees. Group them. Label them. Can you boil it all down to one big idea?
Parts of Speech Party – Thanks
How many different ways can we use the word “thanks”? Let’s find out in this Parts of Speech Party!
A Donut Investigation
In this cross-curricular investigation, students will look into an intriguing question: do donuts or salads have more sugar? They’ll grapple with misleading information, bias, and use their math skills to create a visual representation of sugar in popular foods.
Jabberwocky and Context Clues
Context clues lessons can be a disaster. Here, we expose students to a delightful classic packed with nonsense words (“Jabberwocky”) and ask them to decipher the meanings and parts of speech. Then, it’s only natural for students to write their own nonsense poems.
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.
Math Curiosity: Twin Primes
What do you call two prime numbers who are very close together?
Percents and Credit Cards
Let’s buy something expensive with a credit card and then make only the minumum payments!
Historic Social Media
How would people from history have interacted online? Students will develop a conversation online between people involved in the same event from history.
Greekymon
Your class will become a wonderland of imaginary creates with Greek and Latin names.