Playlist: Bookmarks
A Character’s Challenges and Changes
Your 1st and 2nd graders will analyze how a character responded to a challenge.
Order, Chaos, and the Holiday Season
Let’s write a holiday song about order and chaos!
Robot Writing: Volcano
Read three pieces of writing from three different robots about the same beautiful painting of a volcano. Who wrote it best?
An Olympic Sized Pool and 2 Liter Bottles (Episode 1)
How many 2 liter bottles could you fill up using the water in an olympic-sized pool?
Back to School: Rewriting The Beatles’ “Help!”
Can your students come up with a one-syllable word to sum up their time away from school? And then rewrite The Beatles’ song Help!?
How Many Will There Be? Xs and Os
Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.
Self Portraits: Pointillism
Turn your students into a bunch of Monets with q-tips and some tempera paint.
Story Starter: A Magical School
Students use 12 random phrases to create a story that takes place in at a magical school.
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!
Analyze Character Change with Depth and Complexity
Your students will use Depth and Complexity to note how a character’s main trait changes across a story.