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Help my students remember these confusing terms!

For Teachers

When we want students to memorize two terms, we actually shouldn’t aim for memorization!

St. Patrick and Other Legends

How would real people feel about the legends that have been created about them?

Getting Specific With St. Patrick’s Day Writing

Let’s take a starting phrase about St. Patrick’s Day and get specific. No, even more specific!

What’s In My Brain: Austin vs Los Angeles

We’re looking at capital cities.

What’s In My Brain: Ball vs Book

Let’s look at Kinetic vs Potential Energy!

Emoji Stories 🦁

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

Mother’s Day Cards

Let’s write the cleverest Mother’s Day cards you’ve ever seen!

What Makes A Math Puzzle Actually Puzzling?

For Teachers

This math puzzle fell flat. Why? Because puzzling isn’t about difficulty — it’s about something else entirely.

Word Pyramids

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

Depth and Complexity and Graphic Organizers

For Teachers

Let’s see a few examples of how Depth and Complexity slides nicely into any graphic organizer.

How Many Will There Be? Crosses

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

Writing Concept Attainment Lessons

For Teachers

In a Concept Attainment lesson, we give students examples and non-examples of a concept — without telling them what that concept is!

Plant Adaptation Tournament

Who will win in a tournament of eight plants with Interesting adaptations!?

Microchess (Chess Variant)

What if we played chess on a board that’s only 4×5?

Four Player Chess

Tired of boring ol’ chess? Then you need to try FOUR PLAYER chess!

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?

A Lunar Survival Mission

A favorite of mine! This task is delightfully complex and ambiguous, forcing students to make choices without enough information and with no right answer. How will they survive on the moon for three days?

Word Ladder: East to West (4 Steps)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

The Pros and Cons of Producers and Consumers

Sure, students might know the difference between a producer and a consumer… but have they considered how they feel about each other? What, in a producer’s opinion, are the pros and cons of a consumer?

Word Ladders Introduction

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

Game: Order and Chaos

Imagine Tic-Tac-Toe if both players could play as both Xs and Os!

Bulls and Cows

How quickly can you break the numeric code?

Ghost

Ghost is a word-building game for two players. The first person to create an actual word loses.

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?

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.)

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Introduction

Your students will try to match up definitions that belong to the same homophone in this brain-boggling vocab puzzle.

Universal Themes

For Teachers

Universal Themes are an easy way to connect lessons, units, and content areas, even going across grade levels, and into students’ personal interests.

Climbing Bloom’s with Depth and Complexity

For Teachers

Bloom’s tells you how high to aim. Depth and Complexity tells you where to look. Combine them and things get interesting.

Depth and Complexity: 🏛️ Big Idea

Let’s get students thinking big and focusing on more abstract ideas.

Depth and Complexity: 🌻 Details

Get kids focusing on the small, but essential, details of a topic.

Educational Valentines

Let’s make valentines with an educational twist!