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Challenge Games - Caution: Construction Zone
This challenge game activity focuses on not just following directions, but on active listening as the players receiving the directions are blindfolded. The players giving directions need to be clear and concise in telling the blindfolded...
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Puzzling Clue Vocabulary
Students play a matching, puzzle-like game designed to help them review and practice a given subject matter.
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Word Search Puzzle: April
In this April puzzle worksheet, learners locate and circle/highlight sixteen words in a word search puzzle that are associated with the month of April.
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MyVocabulary.com: Word Roots CERN, JUR, and LEG Advanced Crossword Puzzle
A fun and challenging way of using word roots to increase learners' vocabulary, this crossword puzzle provides 12 clues to vocabulary words containing the word roots cern, jur, and leg. In order to complete the puzzle, they must supply...
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It All Adds Up Puzzle #25
For this addition puzzle worksheet, students complete a 12 square addition puzzle. Students supply the missing addends which will make each row and column add up to be the sum that is given.
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It All Adds Up -- Puzzle #17
In this addition matrix puzzle worksheet, students insert 8 numbers that make the puzzle add up horizontally, vertically, and diagonally.
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It All Adds Up- Puzzle #35
In this addition puzzle learning exercise, students complete a 24 space puzzle in which all rows, columns and diagonals must add up to be the sums provided at the end of each.
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It All Adds Up - Puzzle Matrix #20
In this addition puzzle matrix worksheet, students determine what 8 numbers are missing from the matrix. They insert the proper numbers to make the numbers add up vertically, horizontally, and diagonally.
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MyVocabulary.com: Word Roots FIN, SED, and FER Advanced Crossword Puzzle
Pupils are provided with 12 clues for this standard crossword activity. In order to complete the puzzle, they must come up with vocabulary terms for these clues that contain the word roots FIN, SED and FER. This worksheet is challenging...
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Math Doodles
Discover the joy and excitement of improving your math fluency through four different puzzles. Combine those with 25 different ways to represent numbers and you have hours of enjoyment that can be fun outside of the classroom as well.
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Using Insight Puzzles to Engage and Intrigue Gifted Learners
Challenge your smartest kids with these engaging, fascinating puzzles that require real outside-the-box thinking to solve!
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Word Roots 3 jur, cern, leg Beginner Puzzle 1
Four brief word puzzles are given to challenge your class in this worksheet. The roots jur and jus are written with spaces for other letters, and clues are provided for learners to complete the word. Quiz your scholars with this resource.
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
Tangram Cutout
Challenge the spatial thinking of your young mathematicians with this printable tangram puzzle. Using different sized triangles, squares, and parallelograms, children must figure out how to fit all the shapes together to create a square.
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Branches of Government: Crossword Puzzle
Reinforce terminology that goes along with the branches of government with this crossword puzzle. There are 17 clues provided. Learners fill in the crossword puzzle with the appropriate answers regarding the legislative, executive, and...
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Maze 2f
For this mind challenging worksheet, students study and analyze the most strategic path to follow to find their way through a circle maze from the entrance to the exit of the maze.
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Elements 1
The periodic table can be a little overwhelming to young scientists. Meet your class' worries head on by introducing the table in a game. Individuals test their knowledge of the names and symbols of common elements, then use deductive...
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pH 4: Activity
Sometimes playing games in class isn't a bad thing. Science sleuths evaluate and calculate pH and pOH with an online resource. They then manipulate concentration information and relate it during a series of puzzles.
Illustrative Mathematics
Toll Bridge Puzzle
Here is a great problem-solving activity for young mathematicians. Intended solely for instructional purposes, the activity is appropriate for learners to add four numbers together. Not only must they add four numbers together,...
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Make a Crossword Puzzle
In this crossword puzzle worksheet, students follow directions on how to make a crossword puzzle out of their vocabulary words on the internet. Students complete 6 sets of directions.
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Multiplication Puzzle
In 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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It All Adds Up---Puzzle #6
For this addition crossword puzzle worksheet, students fill in eight missing numbers so every column and row add up to the number at the end of each column and row.
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Memorial Day Challenge
In this Memorial Day activity worksheet, students use the 36 clues to identify the words missing in order to complete the crossword puzzle.
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Acids and Alkalis
Is your acid-base chemistry lesson plan a little ho-hum? Spice things up with puzzles! Young chemists manipulate facts about acids and bases to solve a series of interactive puzzles. The activity combines content knowledge and...
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Concentration of Solutions 1
Need a fun solution to teaching ... solutions? A series of puzzles provides reinforcement to key molarity terms and calculations. Science scholars determine the concentration of several solutions before using the information to solve...