Enrichment

This optical illusion looks like a 3D staircase, but it’s all drawn on a plain piece of paper.

The only type of octopus that routinely wanders onto land!

A music video filmed on 64 phones and then displayed on 64 phones. What?

These two tables are the same size. But how!?

Can you shred paper using just Lego?

Who will win the tournament of Van Gogh self-portraits!?

Here’s how you can draw The Penrose Triangle, an example of an impossible shape.

How to draw the final version of the twisty Henri Matisse knot!

How to draw a more complex version of this twisty Henri Matisse knot!

How to draw a simple version of this twisty Henri Matisse knot!

So, what can a cardboard tube be used for other than holding wrapping paper?

Students start with the same squiggle and then draw on it, turning it into whatever they think it might be.

What do you see in this squiggle?

Students start with the same squiggle and then draw on it, turning it into whatever they think it might be.

Students start with the same squiggle and then draw on it, turning it into whatever they think it might be.

Romeo and Juliet in just about five minutes.

Shakespeare’s Much Ado summarized in just five minutes!

An animated summary of Shakespeare’s utterly ridiculous “Twelfth Night.”

It’s Hamlet in just about five minutes!

Nothing could possibly go wrong with a love potion on the loose!

Let’s encode and decode secret messages like Julius Caesar!

Let’s encode some secret messages with a cipher that was actually used during the American Civil War!

Let’s try a cipher that doesn’t substitute new letters or shapes. We just mix things up.

Now let’s try the Path Cipher – a cipher that mixes things up even more than Zig Zag did.

What if we completely rebuild something slowly? What if we completely rebuild it all at once? Is it still the same thing?

The barber shaves everybody who doesn’t themselves. So… does the barber shave himself?

Students grapple with The Crocodile Dilemma, a paradox from Ancient Greece in which a tricky crocodile makes a deal with some parents. Warning: students brains might explode 🤯

Nothing like a paradox to get your kids brains exploding 🤯! This one starts with five simple words: “This statement is a lie.”

Put these countries into groups. Then do it again. Then… do it one more time. How does re-re-grouping the same places reveal new patterns and give new insights?

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?

Create and print mazes for your students – with bonus side quests!

Roll three dice and combine them using any mathematical operation. But be strategic to maximize your points!

What if you had really weak chess pieces, but you could always move twice?

How fast do you get your mathematical car going without crashing?

Ready for a tricky counting and divisibility game?