Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: String Puppet

For Students 3rd - 8th
Make your own puppets that move, bend, and twist at your command simply using straws and fishing string.
Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: 4 Wheel Balloon Car

For Students 3rd - 8th
Create your own 4-wheel balloon cars with simple household items and race them across the floor.
Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: 2 Wheel Balloon Car

For Students 3rd - 8th
Make your own 2-wheel, air-power cars and race them or play games with them. Balloons and straws are them main components.
Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Marshmallow Blaster

For Students K - 1st
Shoot marshmallows across the room with your own Marshmallow Blaster.
Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Robo Wheel

For Students K - 1st
Make your own Robo Wheel to race or do freestyle tricks using simple household items like paper bowls, string, and rubber bands.
Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Unpoppable Balloon

For Students 3rd - 8th
Can you run a stick through a balloon without popping it? See if you can make this un-poppable ballon?
Handout
PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad Nation: Games: Fidgit

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource allows students to practice engineering skills while trying to win a fun interactive game.
Interactive
Physics Games

Physics Games: De Construction 2

For Students 3rd - 8th
Buy bombs and detonators, and then use them to demolish each structure so that the rubble ends up below the marked height. Take care not to get hit by the rubble.
Activity
Primary Games

Primary Games: Jigmania: Snow White

For Students K - 1st
This is a picture story book about Snow White with puzzle pages to rearrange into the picture. It offers three levels of difficulty (number of puzzle pieces).
Interactive
TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Questioneering Engineering Trivia Game

For Students 9th - 10th
In this challenge, students test their knowledge of engineering and technology trivia.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Robert Merry's Book of Puzzles by Robert Merry, Ed.

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Robert Merry's Book of Puzzles by Robert Merry, Ed. (1861), a collection of riddles, charades, and puzzles.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Cat in the Hat: The Marbleous Marvel Coaster

For Students 1st - 3rd
Test your engineering skills by creating your own rollercoaster using open-ended play.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Curious George: Build a Bot

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Use your engineering skills to help build a robot with Curious George and equip it with the correct accessories for different tasks.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Wild Kratts: Creature Mobile

For Students 2nd - 4th
Mix creature powers to customize different creature mobiles to outrace the Zachbots.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Materials Humans Use

For Students 9th - 10th
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Materials Humans Use

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Just a few resources that we use for products that we like.
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Make a Robot

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Kids will enjoy engaging in this interactive to build a virtual robot. Extend the activity by printing out the creation and incorporating language arts as students write a descriptive story about their new robotic friend or an expository...
Article
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: How to Solve Cryptograms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article provides detailed tips on how to solve cryptograms such as looking for repeated words, solving the short words first, and looking for digraphs and common letters.
Article
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Kids Rebus Puzzle

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on children solving rebus puzzles, puzzles that are a combination of images and letters. It explains the benefits and history of the rebus puzzle and provides examples.
Handout
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Crossword Puzzle Dictionary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a basic crossword puzzle dictionary with an explanation of how to use it. It also offers information and a comparison of three other online crossword dictionaries that have extra features: Wordsmyth, Amo's Online Crossword Puzzle...
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Starfall: Space 3 D

For Students 1st - 4th
In this interactive, students use the arrows to move a cube through a maze to place it in locations as directed.
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Puzzles

For Students K - 1st
In this interactive students click on one of the black statues to break them down into shapes; then they reconstruct the statue by putting the puzzle pieces together, which shows the animal that it represents and replaces the statues...
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Toy Box Puzzle

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This interactive video asks children to click and drag puzzle pieces to form sentences about a toy box.
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Dragon Puzzle

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This interactive video asks children to click and drag puzzle pieces to for sentences about what a dragon is doing.