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St. Patrick’s Day Worksheets

St. Patrick Day’s themed word searches, crossword puzzle, reverse crossword, transition writing practice, and a math puzzle.

Order, Chaos, and the Holiday Season

Let’s write a holiday song about order and chaos!

Crossing Every Bridge Exactly Once (aka Eulerian Paths)

How can you cross each bridge in this city exactly once?

Bobbing for Apples

What is bobbing for apples like… for an apple?

Words Within Words: SCARECROW

How many words can you find within “scarecrow”?

The Heaviest Pumpkin

How heavy is the world’s heaviest pumpkin when measured in Mr. Byrds?

Word Pyramids

Start with a one letter word, add another letter, then add another. How tall can you make the pyramid?

How Many Will There Be? Checkerboard

Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.

Special Gifts with Special Requirements

Your special friends sure have some unique gift needs!

Why I Don’t Use “Create” in Bloom’s Taxonomy

For Teachers

The word “Create” can mask low-level tasks. Here’s why I avoid using it in objectives.

Racetrack – Race Around A Graph

How fast do you get your mathematical car going without crashing?

Notice, Wonder: Butterball

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Fizz Buzz: A Counting and Divisibility Game

Ready for a tricky counting and divisibility game?

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?

Content Imperatives

For Teachers

Learn to use the Content Imperatives, a set of five additional tools that work with Depth and Complexity.

Word Ladders Introduction

You won’t believe how this spelling and vocabulary puzzle will get kids’ brains sweating over the smallest of words.

Asking Questions That Make Students Think

For Teachers

Most classroom questions test memory. These questions test thinking. There’s a difference — and your students will feel it.

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.

How to Play Go

Ready to learn a 2,500-year-old Chinese board game? Let’s… Go!

The Game of 100

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

Engineering: Build A Bridge

Using real bridges as their starting point, students will construct bridges out of straws and paperclips.