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Harvard University: Project Zero: Artful Thinking

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Find engaging ways to integrate visual art and music into regular classroom instruction and strengthen cognitive thinking skills and abilities to reason creatively from multiple perspectives. Get great classroom questioning tips, case...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Geo Logic: How Much of the State Is Wet

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using investigation and inquiry skills, students match classmates with their home state, and their states with the area and percentage of area of surface water that they contain, as well as where each of the states rank nationally in...
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Light on 2

For Students 3rd - 6th
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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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Argumentative Essays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on argumentative essays, longer writings on a well-researched topic with the writer arguing one side of the topic, free of fallacies, and providing several claims. A short YouTube clip of Monty Python shows the...
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Sugar, Sugar Logic Game

For Students 3rd - 5th
Practice your strategic thinking skills with this game.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Logic

For Students 6th - 8th
Understanding mathematical language in problem solving can be a difficult concept to grasp. Sharpen your logical reasoning skills at this test prep site that explains the terms: if, and, or, implies, and only if, as they relate to math....
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Computer Science for Fun: What Is Computational Thinking?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Find out about teaching computational in the classroom, and then link to some classroom resources and student activities to teach these skills.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Negation: Not

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use this website to help you hone your critical thinking and math-problem solving skills. Learn what "Negation," is and how it applies when you are working on mathematical problems and sentences.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Primordial and Complex Jealousy

For Students 9th - 10th
Read and analyze the passage "Primordial and Complex Jealousy" and complete the related six-question quiz.
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Robo Trobo

For Students 3rd - 6th
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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ABCya

Ab Cya: Hook

For Students 3rd - 6th
Hook a is beautifully unique and simple game that will keep you thinking for hours. The goal is to remove the hooks in the correct order, so they do not get "hooked" on anything.
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Basket Math Interactive

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explore more than twenty math concepts such a perimeter, rounding, exponents, decimals, sign numbers, and more using this interactive basketball game. A Spanish version is also offered. Students results are tabulated daily.
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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!
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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!
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Mythical Jewels

For Students 2nd - 6th
A whole treasure chest awaits and diamonds & emeralds abound in this glittering Match-3 puzzle game. Create bigger matches for awesome boosts! Can you reach a high score before you run out of moves?
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Puzzle Drops

For Students 3rd - 6th
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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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.
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Google

Google for Education: Writing a Story

For Teachers 4th - 8th
For this activity, student storytellers write a story with each group member writing one chapter based on a set of story points. After all the members have come up with their chapters independently, the group collaborates to make the...
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Propaganda Critic

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive site that offers student information on: Name Calling, Glittering Generalities, False Connections, Bad Logic or Propaganda, Wartime Propaganda and more! Site also offers the Propaganda Gallery - short video clips that can...
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Alarmy 2

For Students 2nd - 6th
Alarmy is back in this fun physics based puzzle game! Kids of all ages can help Alarmy wake up more of his fuzzy friends. Alarmy 2 is packed full of new challenges and obstacles. Do you have what it takes to collect all 72 stars?
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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!
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Amy's Dominoes

For Students 3rd - 8th
On this one page website sharpen your logic and problem solving skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Street Party

For Students 3rd - 8th
Sharpen your logic and spatial sense skills while working on this challenge. Solution included.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Types of Sentences

For Students 3rd - 8th
What is "Logic"? What is a "Mathematical sentence"? This website provides definitions of both of these terms and defines examples of mathematical sentences ("open sentence" and "closed sentence") and provides examples of each. Use the...