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Struggle Makes Us Stronger

How the lotus can teach your young students about resiliency.

Two Animals Switch Biomes

What if a capybara and a kangaroo rat switched homes? Would their adaptations be helpful at all?

New Uses For A Cardboard Tube

So, what can a cardboard tube be used for other than holding wrapping paper?

Halloween Emoji Story 🌕

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Student Introductions With Depth, Complexity, and Frames: Level Two

Once students know the prompts of Depth and Complexity, let’s take them much higher up Bloom’s Taxonomy.

How to Reset Your Brain When You’re Flooded

Allison Edwards explains how changing your senses can reset your brain.

What Happens In Your Brain When You’re Worried or Afraid

Allison Edwards explains how blood flow in your brain affects your decision-making

Compare and Create New Year’s Traditions

Hey! Our New Year traditions have a lot in common.

Bobbing for Apples

What is bobbing for apples like… for an apple?

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?

Shift Cipher (Codes Part 1)

Let’s encode and decode secret messages like Julius Caesar!

Random Emoji Prompt Generator

Click up an interesting, visual writing prompt suitable for any grade or purpose.

New Uses for a Paperclip

So what are some new ways to use a paperclip?

Looping Grid Art

Pick a few numbers, draw some corresponding lines on grid paper, and you’ll end up with some interesting, looping math-y art!

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?

Writing About Art: The Scream

Your students will turn the iconic painting The Scream into a vivid, sensory poem.

An Escher-Style Tessellation Project

Create a piece of repeating art in the style of MC Escher!

Not Like The Others: States of Matter

How is each of the states of matter not like the others?

Word Ladders Introduction

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

Running A “Notice, Wonder” Lesson

For Teachers

Use these puzzling images to build a classroom culture that is comfortable with curiosity, ambiguity, and taking intellectual risks.

Student Introductions With Depth and Frames

Want to introduce the tools of Depth and Complexity and learn more about your students and introduce the Frame graphic organizer? Have I got the activity for you!

Math Curiosity: The Coloring Problem

No video gets me more email from students! How few colors can you use to color in any map so that no two, neighboring regions are the same color?

Chomp

Chomp away at your opponent in this grid-based strategy game.

Analyze and Create Misleading Graphs

Let’s make some intentionally bad graphs to learn how to spot poorly made graphs.

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?

Writing Clear Directions

Can you write directions so clear that a group of kids can put a toy together with no illustrations?

Engineering: Build A Bridge

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