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Illustrative Mathematics

Make Your Own Puzzle

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Puzzling over what geometry instructional activity to teach next? Look no further. This simple activity teaches young mathematicians how shapes can be decomposed into smaller figures, and how smaller figures can be assembled into larger...
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Curated OER

Bilingual Crossword Puzzle

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students assess new ways to strengthen and expand their vocabularies by creating crossword puzzles for their classmates to experience. They become aware that learning a new language can be a fun experience if approached with an open mind...
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Curated OER

The Pythagorean Puzzle

For Teachers K - 12th
An engaging hands-on activity is presented. Learners of all ages are addressed in thie unique plan. K-5 learners identify, name, and define a rectangle, square, triangle, and the concept of area. Older learners prove the Pythagorean...
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Curated OER

An Environmental Puzzle: The Carbon Cycle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle school science stars examine fuels and energy with a variety of activities. They begin with a KWL chart, read an informative passage, and then complete a puzzle. The puzzle itself is included. Cleverly, each piece corresponds to a...
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Education Development Center

Algebraic Habits of Mind

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Math really is just one big puzzle waiting to be solved. Show learners that math can be intriguing and provide them with visually engaging problems and puzzles. The focus is on solving simple equations and looking at expressions. 
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North Carolina Consortium for Middle East Studies

Missing Pieces of the Puzzle: African Americans in Revolutionary Times

For Students 5th - 11th
What's missing from most studies of the American Revolutionary War is information about the role African Americans played in the conflict. To correct this oversight, middle schoolers research groups like the Black Loyalists and  Black...
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Curated OER

The "Wright" Puzzle

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A crossword puzzle based on the lives of the Wright brothers. Students research on their own or in small groups several brief biographies of the Wright brothers.They complete a crossword puzzle based on their reading.
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Curated OER

Map Puzzles

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students make puzzles from world maps, dramatizing how much of the globe is covered by ocean.
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Curated OER

CHO Puzzle

For Teachers 8th - 10th
In this sugar worksheet, students complete a puzzle by circling all the words in the puzzle related to sugars. The remaining letters in the puzzle create a sentence describing the sugar molecules.
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Curated OER

Multiplication Puzzle

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
For this multiplication worksheet, students match up 12 multiplication math problems puzzle pieces to 12 pieces of another puzzle with the answers on them.
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Curated OER

Wind Logic Puzzles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners listen to books on wind energy for background knowledge. For this wind logic puzzle, students use knowledge of wind energy and critical thinking skills to complete logic puzzles. Learners may work in groups or individually as...
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Crossword Puzzle

For Teachers 10th - 11th
In this crossword worksheet, young scholars complete a crossword puzzle by different solving clues. For example, "Term used to describe a broad range of cultural differences."
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Curated OER

Fruits and Vegetables Crossword Puzzles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In these five crossword puzzles worksheets, students read the clues across and down and write the answers to complete the crosswords about kiwi, apples, lettuce, peppers, and pineapple. 
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Mascil Project

Teaching Geometry Through Play

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Puzzle your way through to a new understanding of area. Scholars learn about the area of polygons through equidecomposability, the idea that polygons that can be decomposed into the same set of pieces have the same area. By using...
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Education Development Center

Area and Multiplication

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Take some intellectual fun and apply it to the concept of multiplying expressions together. A guide models how to break two numbers into an area model to multiply together in pieces similar to FOILing. The rest of the puzzles consist of...
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Autism Speaks

Puzzle Piece Project and Autism Awareness Month

For Students K - 12th Standards
Looking for ways to include your class members in Autism Awareness Month? Use a packet that provides several opportunities to include the student body in an important campaign. 
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Curated OER

Gene Puzzles

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students come to understand that in sexually reproducing organisms, such as humans, typically half of the genes come from each parent. Students examine a fictional pedigree and determine which gene is responsible for a given trait. The...
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Curated OER

-air Family Puzzle

For Teachers K - 2nd
In this -air worksheet, students cut out and put together sixteen different pieces of a puzzle that contains eight words and pictures related to the suffix -air.
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Curated OER

Patterns and Pentominoes

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Young scholars solve pentomino puzzles.  In this problem solving lesson, students discuss how pentomino puzzles play into the plot of Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett and practice solving a pentomino puzzle on their own.  Young...
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Putting It All Together

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students examine a painting.  For this shapes and puzzle lesson, students view Guston's painting Blue Water and identify the colors, shapes and recognizable forms.  Students work in groups to put together puzzle pieces of the painting. ...
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Where in the World Is Mexico?

For Teachers K - 5th
Students practice map-reading skills as they locate Mexico and its cities on a world map. By creating a puzzle out of a map of Mexico, students engage in a meaningful hands-on activity to help them explore that country's geography.
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Texas Instruments

Vandalism 101

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Learners explore logic and use Geometer’s Sketchpad and patterns of logic to solve a puzzle.
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Curated OER

Autobiographies: A Jigsaw Puzzle

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read The Autobiography of Ben Franklin. Using construction paper, they cut out five jigsaw puzzle pieces in different shapes using the entire sheet of paper. They write events from their own lives on the puzzle pieces, thus...
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Curated OER

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners define from a word list for a literary selection. Using the literary selection, they read the vocabulary in context. They determine the definition of the word as used in context and create a crossword puzzle using the...

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