Playlist: Bookmarks
Shift Cipher (Codes Part 1)
Let’s encode and decode secret messages like Julius Caesar!
What’s In My Brain!? Japan vs Jamaica
Is it an island or an archipelago?
What’s In My Brain!? Gold vs Wood
Some of these examples are conductors and some are insulators!
What’s In My Brain!? Walnut vs Clouds
Let’s look at living vs non-living things.
Greek and Latin Word Part Paths
How can we go from Biology to Immobile?
Antonym Paths
Does the antonym of an antonym bring us back to the same meaning?
What’s In My Brain: Owl vs Eagle
Some of these animals are nocturnal and some are diurnal.
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.
Game: Notakto
What if you only played Tic-Tac-Toe with Xs and you could play on multiple boards?
Pronouns With Too Many Antecedents
What happens when a pronoun could refer to more than one noun? Big problems!
Upgrading Compare and Contrast Writing
Upgrade compare and contrast writing with just a couple of key words.
Depth and Complexity: 🏛️ Big Idea
Let’s get students thinking big and focusing on more abstract ideas.
Math Curiosity: Collatz Conjecture
The Collatz Conjecture: start with any number and get to 1 using just two rules. It seems to always work…