Students took the classic song, Help!, and rewrote it to be about their collective summers.
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How Many Kids Could Cram onto the Playground?
If your students can find the area of a square then, armed with Google Earth, they can also figure out how many students you could pack into your school’s playground.
Concept Formation: A Model for Inductive Thinking
Here’s are the steps for running an inductive lesson based on Hilda Taba’s model of Concept Formation. Plus a sample lesson about the Nile River.
The Marshmallow Challenge
A fantastic fuzzy problem to start the year. Students use pasta and tape to try to get a marshmallow up as high as possible.
What could we do with this Wax Museum event?
How one might revamp a “Wax Museum” project into something that focuses more on thinking than product.
Fizz Buzz – A Divisibility Game
Here’s a quick to learn but difficult to master math game. Start with some basic divisibility rules, but then feel free to extend it to any math topic.
The Coloring Problem
How few colors can you use to fill in a map so that no neighboring regions are the same color?
Adding Complexity to Parts of Speech
Here’s how you can add some spice to an otherwise dull study of parts of speech.
Words Within Words
So… how many words can you find that are made from the letters in the world “soldier”? There’s more than 10… more than 20… more than 50…
Rewriting a Sentence With Different Coordinating Conjunctions
The first unit in our writing program was always teaching the coordinating conjunctions. It always felt goofy teaching this to 6th graders – especially a gifted magnet class. I mean… do they really not know the difference between “and” and “but”?
