Paradox: Ship of Theseus Here's a fun thought experiment your students are sure to get a kick out of: when something is slowly replaced over time, is it still the same thing in the end?
Matching Flowers and Pollinators How to add a couple of Analyze-level tasks to this Synthesize activity.
Introducing “Criteria” To Students Teaching our students to identify the criteria behind a decision will make them better decision makers and help them understand others' points of views.
Concentric Circles – Getting Students to Think Bigger (and Smaller!) This differentiation technique is called "Concentric Circles". You use it to move students up and down the ladder of abstraction, applying a single idea in multiple contexts.
From “Summarize” to “Synthesize” Even what seems like a low-level "summarize" task can become beautifully high-level when we climb Bloom's Taxonomy.
The Original Puzzlement: A Zoetrope As teachers, I spend a ton of time searching for inspiration to enliven my lessons. But sometimes, inspiration hits as soon as you leave the desk and books behind. Friday my wife and I took a trip to Disneyland and saw this unbelievable (literally, it seems like magic) intersection of art & technology.
Create A Civilization: The River Most humans want to live near fresh water, which means that most civilizations settled near a river! Let's add a river to your students' civilizations.
Enrichment Must Prompt Thinking 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!
Fluency: Asking For (Way) More Than One Answer Being able to generate many possible answers is key to high-level thinking. So why don't we ask students to do it more often?
Students Need More Than Independent Work It's so easy to just ask advanced students to work by themselves in a corner. But, the more advanced the kid, the more they need advanced instruction and adult guidance.
