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Other

Mycoted: Lateral Thinking Puzzles

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Website
New York Times

New York Times: Resources From the New York Times and Learning Network

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Great website to find lesson plans for countless technology units. Students and teachers can access technology themed crossword puzzles, ask New York Times reporters questions about technology, view...
Professional Doc
Primary Resources

Primary Resources: Solving Problems and Puzzles

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Lots of useful teacher resources for making problem-solving easier and more fun for students. Includes games and worksheets.
Website
University of Vienna (Austria)

University of Vienna: Maths Online

For Students 9th - 10th
The University of Vienna, Austria, created this site to help bring the worlds of math and technology together. You have access to many applets and downloads that allow you to create lessons, tests, and puzzles. There are also great...
App
Other

Disney Junior: Play App

For Students 3rd - 8th
Welcome to the magical world of Disney Junior Play featuring your favorite Disney Junior characters all in one place! Loads of exciting TV shows, games, puzzles, sing-along videos, dress-up fun and sticker book scenes. The 'Disney Junior...
Interactive
Fun Brain

Fun Brain: Word Turtle (Make a Word Search Game)

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Create word searches three different ways. Make puzzles from your own word lists, find puzzles based on popular books, or select FunBrain-created puzzles at different levels of difficulty.
Activity
NASA

Disfruta De Tu Confusion Con El Juego Spuzzled!

For Students 3rd - 8th
NASA provides a challenging puzzle scrambler where students must rearrange 1 to 53 puzzle pieces to form a strange land view. Good resource information is also available as this site describes what Landsat satellites do and how they...
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Make Your Own Puzzle

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Students will cut a square into four pieces, and then will put those pieces in an envelope for another student to put together. The purpose of this task is to give students a hands-on experience with composing and decomposing geometric...
Handout
University of St. Andrews (UK)

University of St. Andrews: Henry Ernest Dudeney

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of St. Andrews contains information on the life of Henry Ernest Dudeney. Links for more information are provided throughout the site.
Website
Merriam-Webster

Merriam Webster: Quizzes and Games

For Students 9th - 10th
This website is full of links to word games and quizzes including game of the day and word of the day links.
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.
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Baby Puzzle

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

Ab Cya: Blue Box

For Students 4th - 6th
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...
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Blobble

For Students 1st - 6th
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?
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Ball Ornaments Puzzle

For Students 4th - 6th
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...
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Lightybulb

For Students 4th - 6th
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!
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Let Me Grow

For Students K - 1st
Let Me Grow is an entertaining puzzle game. Help get water to the thirsty flowers by removing blocks and opening levees. Be careful not to get the garden gnomes wet! Younger children might need help from adults beyond the first six levels.
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Jelly Slice

For Students 3rd - 6th
Jelly Slice is a unique brain and puzzle game in which you use your fingers or mouse to slice the jelly and collect the stars through challenging levels. There is only one rule: Slice the jelly so that each slice contains only 1 star....
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Jelly Doods

For Students 3rd - 6th
Jelly Doods is a fun puzzle game for both children and adults! Slide the jellies around the screen to combine all the matching colors. You only have so many moves to complete each puzzle, so make sure you plan accordingly!
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Jelly Collapse

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Jelly Collapse is a physics-based puzzle for kids of all ages. Tap chains of like-colored jellies to collect them and reach the goal!
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Hydro Logic

For Students 4th - 6th
Hydro Logic is a splashy puzzle game that teaches the Water Cycle, also known as the Hydrologic Cycle! Navigate our wet little friend Enki to the goal in each level. Enki is liquid at room temperature, but can transform into gas and...
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Halloween Candy Hunt

For Students 2nd - 6th
Halloween Candy Hunt is fun holiday activity for kids of all ages. The object of this Halloween activity is to simply find the hidden candy. Look carefully at the pictures and click/tap on the candy to collect them. This Halloween Candy...