Can you shred paper using just Lego?
Students will go from “FLY” to “BEE” by changing just one letter per step.
Students start with the same squiggle and then draw on it, turning it into whatever they think it might be.
So, what can a pencil be used for other than writing and drawing?
What if we rewrote a piece of writing without using certain letters?
Some of these examples are conductors and some are insulators!
Let’s look at living vs non-living things.
Ready for a tricky counting and divisibility game?
Pick a few numbers, draw some corresponding lines on grid paper, and you’ll end up with some interesting, looping math-y art!
What if each square on a Tic-Tac-Toe board had another Tic-Tac-Toe board inside of it?
What if I told you a movie was a whopping 0.017 long? Could you figure out the unit I’m using? This lesson packs in strange measurements of time as well as tiny decimals.
Every positive integer can be written as the sum of (at most) four perfect squares!
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?
Learn how to play the abstract, paper-and-pencil game Chomp!
Context clues lessons can be a disaster. Here, we expose students to a delightful classic packed with nonsense words (“Jabberwocky”) and ask them to decipher the meanings and parts of speech. Then, it’s only natural for students to write their own nonsense poems.
Your students will create a new flower, designed to attract a specific pollinator.
Let’s make valentines with an educational twist!
You’ve got 60 spaces on a grid to create an amusement park, a house, a farm, or whatever you’d like. Divide it into seven pieces, order it by size, combine into two halves, and more in this fraction project.
