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Asking students to “think creatively” won’t get you far. They won’t know how to start, they’ll get stuck with simple ideas, or they’ll just go completely wild. SCAMPER is a tool for scaffolding the process of creativity.
Who can get to 100 first in this simple, but delightful, math game?
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?
So what are some new ways to use a paperclip?
Why does this dinosaur keep looking at me…
How to draw a simple version of this twisty Henri Matisse knot!
What would the consequences be if all people lived much, much longer?
Ready for a tricky counting and divisibility game?
What if this triangle pattern just kept repeating… forever!?
This optical illusion looks like a 3D staircase, but it’s all drawn on a plain piece of paper.
What’s going on in this painting? Who is that guy? What’s his job? And where’s his other boot?
How to draw the final version of the twisty Henri Matisse knot!
Teach your students about basic cryptography and code making.
A worksheet pack featuring writing prompts, a summer essay project, a science-based escape room activity, and image analysis prompts.
A music video filmed on 64 phones and then displayed on 64 phones. What?
What if we completely rebuild something slowly? What if we completely rebuild it all at once? Is it still the same thing?
These two tables are the same size. But how!?
In this grid-based strategy game, who will be the last to add to the snake?
Your students will turn the iconic painting The Scream into a vivid, sensory poem.
Try this a simple (but surprisingly strategic) grid-filling game!
Who can make the most boxes from dots in this strategy game?
What do you see in this squiggle?
A crocodile makes a deal. But the deal creates a paradox. Can your students untangle a 2,000-year-old logic puzzle?
So, what can a cardboard tube be used for other than holding wrapping paper?
Learn how to play the abstract, paper-and-pencil game Sprouts.
Who can guess the codeword first?
Watch astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti cook a meal in zero gravity on the International Space Station.
The story of the Fabergé Eggs is heartbreaking. It’s also the perfect way to build empathy in your classroom.
Crosswords, image analysis, and writing prompts for Halloween!
Oil paint floats on water and becomes a familiar scene.
Various desserts melt in surprisingly different ways.
How fast do you get your mathematical car going without crashing?
What if one side played with THREE QUEENS and the other had SEVEN KNIGHTS!? What if?
It’s Hamlet in just about five minutes!
Hey! Our New Year traditions have a lot in common.
What would the consequences be if a town’s tap water became… unreliable?
How to draw a more complex version of this twisty Henri Matisse knot!
Put these animals into groups. Then do it again. Then… do it one more time. How does re-re-grouping the same creatures reveal new patterns and give new insights?
Shakespeare’s Much Ado summarized in just five minutes!
The first person to run out of regions loses in this strategy game.
Everyone starts with the same squiggle. No two drawings end up the same. What do you see?
