Playlist: Bookmarks
Bobbing for Apples
What is bobbing for apples like… for an apple?
Racetrack – Race Around A Graph
How fast do you get your mathematical car going without crashing?
Tournament of Ancient Inventions
Which of these inventions of the ancient world is most influential? Least useful today? Most taken-for-granted?
Fancier Figurative Language: Move the Simile
What if we started a sentence with the simile?
Remixing A Holiday Poem
Let’s take a classic Christmas poem and remix it to work with another holiday!
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!
Finding The Volume of Laptops
How has the volume of laptops changed over time? You know you want to check out how huge those first versions were!
The Thinking Hats
So… do your students moan when forced to work in a group? Part of the problem is that lack the structure to work well with peers. Edward de Bono’s Thinking Hats are a perfect tool to help with this problem.
Propaganda and Logical Fallacies
Let’s see how propaganda techniques can make even something great seem bad.
Content Imperatives: Paradox
How can one idea pull in opposite directions, being both true and false or right and wrong at the same time? It’s time to explore Paradoxes!
Studying and Remixing “The Raven”
Ready to push kids beyond the boring, old ABAB rhyme scheme and into something a bit more complex?
Depth and Complexity: Patterns
Can your students spot anything that repeats? Or that has stopped repeating?
Introduce Symbolism with Pixel Art
Create a pixelated icon that represents the essence of a character!