Enrichment

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?

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?

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.

Worksheets for Earth Day! Featuring reading, writing, and math… with a pinch of Depth and Complexity.

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

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

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

What’s going on in this painting? Who is that guy? What’s his job? And where’s his other boot?

Vulcan Point Island is an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island

What if this triangle pattern just kept repeating… forever!?

Anyone, yes anyone, can create a (somewhat) realistic self-portrait using these steps. Anyone!

It’s a car made out of Lego with a working engine.

Ready for a tricky counting and divisibility game?

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

What would the consequences be if all people lived much, much longer?

What happens when you blow a bubble in below-freezing temperatures?

Want to take Tic-Tac-Toe to the next level!? Imagine a 15×15 board. You must get five-in-a-row. You cannot get six-in-a-row. That’s Gomoku!

Can your students tell the difference between cubism and abstract art?

Try this a simple (but surprisingly strategic) subtraction game!

Imagine Tic-Tac-Toe if both players could play as both Xs and Os!

You could keep zooming in on this snowflake forever!

The only type of octopus that routinely wanders onto land!

What surprises can you spot when a kernel pops in super slow-mo?

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?

What if we rewrote a piece of writing without using certain letters?

Can you shred paper using just Lego?

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!

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

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?

What if one side played with THREE QUEENS and the other had SEVEN KNIGHTS!? What if?