Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Glow Sticks

For Students 3rd - 8th
Test your electrical skills! Can you make a working glow stick with a nine-volt battery and a strand of lights?
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Build a Better Lunchbox

For Students 3rd - 8th
Follow the directions to build a lunchbox that will keep a frozen treat from melting.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Bristle Bots

For Students 6th - 8th
Are you up to the task of making a mini robot? It requires a small motor, a button battery, wires, and a toothbrush.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Balloon Joust

For Students 3rd - 8th
Prepare your balloons, using barbeque skewers and straws, for a balloon joust with your friends.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Balance Magic

For Students 3rd - 8th
See if you can balance a sculpture on the end of a toothpick!
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Air Cannon

For Students 3rd - 8th
Make your air cannon using simple items like a paper cup, a plastic bag, and pom poms; then see how far you can shoot the pom poms.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Treasure Grab

For Students 3rd - 8th
Grab all the treasure you can and test your driving skills with your Treasure Grabber made with string, paper clips, and a straw.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Indoor Slingshot

For Students 3rd - 8th
Build your own launchers to play carnival-style games using things like toilet paper rolls and rubber bands.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Marshmallow Blaster

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

Braingle: Cryptography Brain Teasers

For Students 9th - 10th
Test your critical thinking skills with a variety of cryptography brain teasers, phrases or expressions "encoded in some way." Solve the teasers provided at this site, and submit your own for others to try!
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: Lineum

For Students 1st - 6th
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.
Website
University of Canterbury

University of Canterbury: Cs Unplugged

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A collection of free learning activities that teach computer science through games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons and lots of running around. The activities introduce students to computational thinking through concepts such...
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: 2048

For Students 4th - 6th
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!
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: 10 X 10 Ice Cream Adventure

For Students 3rd - 6th
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!
Interactive
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Got It

For Students 1st - 8th
Sharpen your logical thinking and see if you can figure out the strategy to get to the target number before the computer.
Interactive
Science Museum, London

Science Museum: Launchpad Online: Launchball

For Students 9th - 10th
Use your knowledge of physics concepts like electricity, reflection, magnetism, etc. to complete interactive online puzzles.
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Prisoner Boxes Riddle?

For Students 9th - 10th
Your favorite band is great at playing music but not so great at being organized. They keep misplacing their instrucments on tour.
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Other

Puzz.com's 1001 Best Puzzles: Brain Training Games: Analogies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
These four self-scoring analogy tests include a number of open ended analogies to challenge your logic skills.