Enrichment is not merely about doing fun things. It should never be just a project-of-the-week. It must be about getting students thinking in new and interesting ways. Here's how!
Game: Ghost
How to play the word-building game Ghost.
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Enrichment should be much more than fun and games. It shouldn't be a bunch of random projects and activities. The goal of enrichment is to get kids analyzing, evaluating, and synthesizing. Here's a few resources for doing just that.
Enrichment is not merely about doing fun things. It should never be just a project-of-the-week. It must be about getting students thinking in new and interesting ways. Here's how!
How to play the word-building game Ghost.
Let’s create an MC Escher-style tessellation art (and math) project with nothing more than an index card, a marker, and paper.
Let’s play Tic-Tac-Toe with numbers. But instead of three-in-a-row, we’re summing to 15.
Imagine Tic-Tac-Toe if both players could play as both Xs and Os!
Let’s play the simple (but surprisingly strategic) game of Chomp!
With Sprouts, students draw a small set of dots and then connect those dots with lines. The first person who can’t make a connection loses.
A surprisingly strategic game played on a simple grid.
Heaps is a lovely math-y strategy game that requires no more than paper and pencil to play.
When you’re teaching a reading skill, can you replace some of those dull sample texts with glorious artwork?
According to Costello, 7 × 13 = 28. In fact, watch him prove it…