Playlist: Term 3 2026
Broken Calculator: Multiplication Cross Product
This calculator multiplies almost correctly. Students will find the one step it skips.
Who has more power: the Queen Bee or the Hive?
Who really runs the hive: the queen, or the thousands of bees around her?
Factors and Codes (Episode 1)
Let’s use factors to encode and decode words.
Idiom Tasks
Four fantastically terrific tasks for a weekly idiom study.
Introducing Universal Theme of Change
Everything changes. But how does it change? Students brainstorm dozens of examples and boil them down to one big idea.
Fancier Figurative Language: Move the Simile
What if we started a sentence with the simile?
Think Like A Philosopher
What would Socrates have thought if he watched Frozen?
Virtue or Vice?
Aristotle noted that positive traits and negative traits are often the same thing, but just in different amounts. The right amount is a virtue, but too much or too little and it’s a vice.
Undoing Multiplication With Division
Multiplication and division, natural foes, are constantly seeking to undo each other. Students will attempt to reverse the effects of multiplication by dividing once, twice, or even thrice!
Showing A Character’s Trait
We tell students to ‘show, not tell’ — but that advice is useless until they experience the difference. This lesson makes it click.
Greekymon
Rather than just memorizing word parts, students will use those word parts to create four possible products.
Greek and Latin Dinosaur Names
Let’s create a new dinosaur using Greek and Latin stems!