Playlist: Bookmarks
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?
Fractions: Decompose and Recompose
What if we took a fraction apart, then took those pieces apart, then recombined them, and then recombined those, arriving back to the original fraction?
An Escher-Style Tessellation Project
Create a piece of repeating art in the style of MC Escher!
Not Like The Others: Charlotte’s Web
Four Charlotte’s Web characters. One doesn’t belong. But which one? That depends on your argument.
Ghost
Ghost is a word-building game for two players. The first person to create an actual word loses.
Analyzing Movies’ Success
So should we make another movie in this series?
Depth and Complexity: Patterns
Can your students spot anything that repeats? Or that has stopped repeating?
Greek and Latin Dinosaur Names
Let’s create a new dinosaur using Greek and Latin stems!