A storehouse of puzzles designed to train the brain to think in atypical ways. Find riddles, visual puzzles, analogies, math problems, and more. Excellent source of raw material for practicing original and creative thinking one puzzle at...

Check your understanding of copyright, DMCA, Creative Commons and open source licenses in this set of free practice questions designed for AP Computer Science Principles students.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students are given word problems with various operations used to solve. Watch a video for additional help and answer a practice problem. [1:32]

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will practice converting between liters and milliliters.

This lesson focuses on figurative language used in descriptive writing including similes, metaphors, cliches, hyperbole. It offers multiple links to websites pertaining to figurative language in descriptive and creative writing; an...

Simple machines are devices with few or no moving parts that make work easier, and which people have used to provide mechanical advantage for thousands of years. Students learn about the wedge, wheel and axle, lever, inclined plane,...

The purpose of this task is for students to practice rounding numbers to the nearest ten, connect the rules for rounding with location on the number line, and to introduce the idea of rounding to the nearest 100. Aligns with...

Explore music at home and in class with homemade instruments. In "Top of the Charts," Emily Elizabeth gets inspired to create the happiest song in the world. Emily Elizabeth, Jack, Pablo, Samantha, and Clifford pool their talents and...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Braingenie builds mastery and sharpens problem-solving skills. Students can learn, practice, and quiz themselves on thousands of skills in the areas of math and...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Braingenie builds mastery and sharpens problem-solving skills. Students can learn, practice, and quiz themselves on thousands of skills in the areas of math and...

This site offers links to the winning stories from MysteryNet's mini-mystery writing contest for kids. They provide good reading practice and/or models for story writing activities.

This is a great math writing assignment. First, students learn about the patterns and shapes of polynomial equations and their inverses by making their bodies imitate mathematical concepts, using popular disco & 80's dance moves....

Students practice their multiplication skills using robots with wheels built from LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT kits. They brainstorm distance travelled by the robots without physically measuring distance and then apply their math skills to...

In this fifth module of a course on Digital Photography, students learn about how to take photographs that reflect a personal aesthetic, they learn how to use Surrealist techniques, they manipulate their images to create new material,...

A very creative way to practice learning the differences between the preterite and the imperfect tenses. Read three different stories and select the appropriate tense in the story. A brief explanation is given with each answer you select.

Brainstorming is a team creativity activity that helps generate a large number of potential solutions to a problem. In this activity, students participate in a group brainstorming activity to generate possible solutions to their...

Looking for ways to weave in online safety messages across your school curriculum? Visiting a topic in different subject areas offers a creative way for pupils to bring their learning to life by making links to the world around them. We...

Learn about some of the interests and abilities that propel people into careers in architecture. Includes short first-person stories of practicing architects who explain that the pathway into architecture often begins as a child.

The purpose of this task is for students to practice adding numbers within ten and become familiar with the ten-frame.

The purpose of this task is for students to practice plotting points in the coordinate plane and finding the areas of polygons. This task assumes that students already understand how to find areas of polygons by decomposing them into...

Students will learn about managing money and scarcity while practicing addition and subtraction. They will be given a certain amount of money to spend at a fictitious store. Included are discussion questions about how students decided to...

At first glance, this might seem like an impossible problem because the number $7^{2011}$ is much too large to evaluate even with a calculator. It requires a starting point, and, to many, such a starting point might not be obvious....

What is an adjective? This site features a lesson plan that will allow young scholars to think creatively and work in small groups. This will sharpen your grammar skills.

The purpose of this task is to give students practice plotting points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane and naming coordinates of points. Aligns with 5.G.A.1.