Playlist: Bookmarks
How to Reset Your Brain When You’re Flooded
Allison Edwards explains how changing your senses can reset your brain.
What If… Long Life?
What would the consequences be if all people lived much, much longer?
Phrases to Join a Discussion
Want your classroom discussions to go a bit more smoothly? Train students to use a few simple phrases and it’ll make all the difference in the world.
Find The Pattern: Multiply Fractions
What if you set the stage for students to discover how to multiply fractions?
Racetrack – Race Around A Graph
How fast do you get your mathematical car going without crashing?
New Uses for a Paperclip
So what are some new ways to use a paperclip?
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.
Fraction Ordering Tournament
Which set of fractions would be the trickiest to order from least to greatest? Let’s have a tournament!
The Resiliency Tournament
Your students will set up a tournament to determine which person or character best demonstrated resiliency.
More Specific than “Smart”
When students are told that they’re “smart”, what does this word actually mean to them? (Psst. It isn’t what we intended.)
Visualizing Fraction Multiplication
What does it look like to multiply fractions?
Educational Valentines
Let’s make valentines with an educational twist!
Running A Curiosity Based Research Project
Skip the assigned topics. Let students research what they’re genuinely curious about — here’s how to structure it so it actually works.
Motivation and Moral Development
Can someone do the right thing, but for the wrong reason?
Creating A Classroom Motto
Starting with specific examples of fantastic classroom behavior, your class will end up with one sentence summing up their expectations. It’s a classroom motto!
Intellectual Intensity
Do you know someone who becomes a bit overexcited by ideas?
Impostor Syndrome
For TeachersThe student who breezes through school may hit a wall in college. Here’s why — and what to do about it now.