Playlist: Bookmarks
Antagonyms: Dust, Clip, and Left
Dust can mean “remove dust” but also “add more dust!”
Holiday Shuffle – Day vs Date
Wouldn’t some holidays be better on a certain day of the week? Should Thanksgiving have a set date?
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Alpha
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Bobbing for Apples
What is bobbing for apples like… for an apple?
Shift Cipher (Codes Part 1)
Let’s encode and decode secret messages like Julius Caesar!
Word Pyramids
Start with a one letter word, add another letter, then add another. How tall can you make the pyramid?
Thanksgiving Photo Writing
Starting with an old-timey photo, students will write from a particular item’s point of view.
Greek and Latin Word Part Paths
How can we go from Biology to Immobile?
Animal Adaptation Tournament
Which animal has the most interesting, most valuable, or strangest adaptations?
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?
Self Portraits Part One: Line Drawings
Anyone, yes anyone, can create a (somewhat) realistic self-portrait using these steps. Anyone!
Addition: 3 Digits Plus 2 Digits (Multiple Solutions)
Typical practice problems don’t move students up Bloom’s Taxonomy. With this framework, you’ll see kids stop and really think about how to approach multi-digit addition.
Math Game: Heaps
Try this a simple (but surprisingly strategic) subtraction game!
Notice, Wonder: A Long Line
A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!
Remixing A Holiday Poem
Let’s take a classic Christmas poem and remix it to work with another holiday!
Numerator or Denominator: Which has more power in a fraction?
What do you do with students who already get their fraction operations? Give them a contrived project about recipes or pizza slices? Make them solve annoyingly hard practice problems? Please. Here, we get students thinking in a whole new way, pondering which has more power, the numerator or denominator.
Parentheses: How big of a change can they make!?
Two tiny parentheses. One expression. How big of a change can they make? Bigger than you think.
Calculators, Patterns, and Multiplying By Decimals
Before teaching students the procedure for multiplying with decimals, how much can they intuitively glean from a structured play session with calculators?
Rounding Numbers (But Not To 10)
What could we possibly do to make rounding more interesting for students who already get it? In this series, students consider how they might round to values other than “the nearest 10.” How, for example, do we round to the nearest 9? 7? 15?
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Introduction
Your students will try to match up definitions that belong to the same homophone in this brain-boggling vocab puzzle.
The Game of 100
Who can get to 100 first in this simple, but delightful, math game?