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Section 1: Analogies
Introduce your freshmen to analogies with this packet of prompts that also includes strategies for solving these critical thinking puzzles.
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The Things They Carried
The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien's powerful collection of vignettes about the experiences of a platoon of soldiers during the Vietnam War, serves as a text for a crossword puzzle. The 23 clues asks readers to recall characters,...
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Crossword Puzzle - Human Body
A 20-prompt body systems crossword gives life science learners a compact overview of different organs and specialized cells within them. Some require filling in the blanks, while others require vocabulary recognition. Use it as a review...
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Kodable
Prepare young scholars for life in the twenty-first century with this introduction to computer coding formatted as a fun problem solving game, this resource is a great way to develop children's sequential thinking...
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The Deadly Picnic: A Lab on Deductive Reasoning
Whodunnit? Find out who killed Mr. Brooks through a logical examination of evidence. Class members fill out a couple of data tables to help them pin down the suspect. After they've figured out just who the culprit is, pupils compose...
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Plate Tectonics: Kindergarten Lesson Plans and Activities
This unit focuses primarily on plate tectonics and plate boundaries surrounding continents. It contains pre- and post-lab sections that walk young geologists through plate movements in order to visualize what's going on inside Earth.
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Eric Carle: Animals and Friends
Celebrate Eric Carle’s beloved children’s books, especially those about animals. Teachers and readers alike engage in Carle’s books as they explore the art and color in each of his stories, and how these elements support comprehension.
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Volcanoes: Kindergarten Lesson Plans and Activities
In the pre-lab, kindergarteners mimic the movements of the eruption of a volcano and discover various volcanoes around the United States. Then, pupils sort different types of volcanic rocks in the lab before learning how volcanoes grow...
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Earthquakes: Kindergarten Lesson Plans and Activities
Beginning with a pre-lab, kindergarteners trace the letters in the word earthquake and discuss what happens in an earthquake. The lab portion allows young scientists realize that earthquakes trigger shaking of different intensities...
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Ab Cya: Puzzle Drops
Puzzle Drops is a fun match-3 puzzle game that the whole family will enjoy! Click/tap to rotate the puzzle piece and then drag it to the appropriate place on the game board. You'll have to use some strategy to reach the goal in each level.
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Ab Cya: Daisy's Plumber Puzzle
Daisy needs your help getting water to all the snoozing flowers! Use your plumber skills to rearrange the pipes so that the water flows from the faucet to the thirsty flower. The whole family will have fun with this puzzle game!
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Ab Cya: Alarmy
Alarmy is a fun physics based puzzle game for all ages! Help Alarmy wake up his fuzzy friends as he makes his way through different levels. You never know what type of challenges Alarmy will face!
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Ab Cya: Ball Ornaments Puzzle
Ball Ornaments Puzzle is a fun winter holiday activity. Kids must find as many ornaments as possible by locating matches to the example ornaments shown. The game is over when all 150 ornaments have been found or when the time has run...
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Ab Cya: Robo Trobo
Robo Trobo is a problem solving game for kids of all ages. Kids will need to guide Robo through complex puzzles in order to complete the different levels. Have fun and think outside the box!
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Ab Cya: Light on 2
Who turned off the lights? Well, we'll need your help turning them back on. Use logic and reasoning to light up the rooms with the different tools provided. Are you bright enough to complete this challenging puzzle game?
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Ab Cya: Lightybulb
Lightybulb is a fun puzzle game that will keep you thinking as you try to light up Lightybulb's dark world. Could it be as easy as flipping a light switch? You'll have to find out for yourself!
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Ab Cya: Lineum
Lineum is a relaxing puzzle game where the goal is to turn the entire gameboard green by drawing a continuous line to flip the non-green tiles.
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Ab Cya: 2048
2048 is a challenging number puzzle for kids and grown ups. The object is to join the numbers to get the 2048 tile. Use your arrow keys to move tiles. When two tiles with the same number touch, they merge into one!
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Ab Cya: 10 X 10 Ice Cream Adventure
10 x 10 is a fun puzzle game for the whole family! Help Mr. Pebbles score points by dragging the ice cream into the grid to fill up vertical and horizontal lines. There are lots of tasty ice cream treats to help you along the way!
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Prisoner Boxes Riddle?
Your favorite band is great at playing music but not so great at being organized. They keep misplacing their instrucments on tour.
Maths Challenge
Maths challenge.net: Problem Solving Database
Need some challenging problem-solving work for your students in the following areas: Discrete, Geometry, Numbers, and Code Breaking? This is the place for an enormous database of problems aimed at high school age students. They are...
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Ab Cya: Blue Box
In a very blue world of a very square box, there is green, red and blue, and a puzzle to solve. Help move the bouncing blue box from the green box to the red box. Both children and parents will find tons of fun in this addicting puzzle...
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Ab Cya: Zippy Boxes
Zippy Boxes is a fun stress-free puzzle game that will keep you entertained for hours. Move the colored boxes to the square containing the same colored key to unlock the crazy creature trapped inside. Parents and children will have a...
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Ab Cya: Blobble
Blobble is slimy strategy puzzle game that will keep you slipping and sliding for hours! The goal is to fill an entire space with blobs, using only the tools available in each level. Do you have what it takes to complete all 45 levels?