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Slow Motion Popcorn

What surprises can you spot when a kernel pops in super slow-mo?

Cooking In Space

Watch astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti cook a meal in zero gravity on the International Space Station.

Changing Baby Names

You won’t believe how fascinating it is to watch a map of the most popular baby names by US state.

Lego Shadow Spinner

Watch this block of Lego cast three completely different shadows of three distinctly different objects! How’d he do it?

Misconceptions About 🏛️ Big Idea

For Teachers

For too long, I let my students turn in blah Big Ideas. Here’s how I fixed it.

Differentiate with Low Floors and High Ceilings

For Teachers

Stop starting at grade level and stretching up. Start high and scaffold down. It’s simpler, and it actually works.

My Top 5 Depth and Complexity Mistakes

For Teachers

I spent about a decade making some pretty major mistakes in my use of depth and complexity.

Habitable Planets and Moons Tournament

Which object in the solar system is most habitable?

Introduction to Differentiation

For Teachers

When differentiating, most teachers simply start in the wrong place!

Differentiation of the Environment

For Teachers

Lisa explains how Log Cabin Living changed her classroom environment. Sort of.

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?

What’s In My Brain: Owl vs Eagle

Some of these animals are nocturnal and some are diurnal.

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?

Game: Gomoku

Want to take Tic-Tac-Toe to the next level!? Imagine a 15×15 board. You must get five-in-a-row. You cannot get six-in-a-row. That’s Gomoku!

SCAMPER: Scaffolding Creativity

Asking students to “think creatively” won’t get you far. They won’t know how to start, they’ll get stuck with simple ideas, or they’ll just go completely wild. SCAMPER is a tool for scaffolding the process of creativity.

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!

Depth and Complexity – An Introduction for Teachers

For Teachers

Depth and Complexity is the most powerful framework most teachers have never heard of. Here’s what it actually is — and isn’t.

Not Like The Others: US Presidents

Four US presidents. One doesn’t belong. But which one? That depends on your argument.

The Resiliency Tournament

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

Building Creative Analogies

We’ll take two seemingly unrelated pieces of content (say volcanoes and the human body) and then build analogies to connect the two ideas. In the end, students can create a skit, comic, or story relating the two concepts.

Depth and Complexity: 🏛️ Big Idea

Let’s get students thinking big and focusing on more abstract ideas.

Create A Creature

Create a new creature based on the adaptations of existing creatures from the same biome.

The Game of 100

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

Multiple Perspectives in Primary

For Teachers

Even our youngest students can learn to think from multiple perspectives!