NASA
The Search for Critical Questions
A puzzle isn't about the individual pieces, but how they work together. Scholars assemble a puzzle and discover missing pieces. They write a description of what they expect these pieces to look like, including as many details as...
Science Matters
Energy Flow
Budding scientists work collaboratively to reenact energy flow in a food chain. Scholars take on roles such as producer and consumer and perform tasks that symbolize energy flow in order to provide evidence of how much energy passes...
Bowland
Pointzero: Confined
Groups plan their escape carefully. Three three-tiered puzzles help a story character escape their situation, each involving integer sequences, transformations, and geometric constructions. The teacher resource includes slides and...
Curated OER
A Piece of the Puzzle
Discover the process of writing a story by comparing it to a puzzle. Begin by examining a diagram shaped like a puzzle which contains important elements of a story. Learners mix and match the pieces with elements of a story they are...
Curated OER
What's The Word?
Students define vocabulary words using print or online dictionaries; create crossword puzzles with those words and definitions; and share their puzzles with peers for review.
Curated OER
Gary Paulsen's Canyons: Vocabulary Activity
The final chapters of Canyons (chapters 17-24) present readers with more challenging vocabulary. Two activities provide readers with an opportunity to figure out what they know, and then to use what they know to complete a word search...
Curated OER
Hey Classmates! Let's Get to Know One Another!
Two word puzzles encourage collaboration among learners. One sheet has numbers and initials that show a relationship and the other has pictorial images that represent a phrase. Partners cooperate in order to develop functional working...
Curated OER
Tangram Puzzles
Students explore, experience and study recognizing and applying flips (reflections), slides (translations), and turns (rotations). They utilize spatial memory and spatial visualization skills to figure out what figures look like when...
Curated OER
Common Words and Phrases Puzzle
Students discuss the meaning of a variety of common phrases. As a class, they are tested on how to use those phrases. They participate in a puzzle game in which they are given a statement to describe the phrase and they are to say it...
Curated OER
Month Puzzle
In this months of the year worksheet, students cut apart puzzle pieces . Twelve have the months of the year, and 12 have numbers 1 to 10. Students match the strips in sequential order.
Curated OER
"--Oat" Partner Puzzle
In this phonics partner puzzle activity worksheet, young scholars cut apart 6 word cards so that each has 2 pieces. Students play with a partner to match the cards to create the "--oat" ending words.
Curated OER
-ook Partner Puzzle
In this -ook word partner puzzle worksheet, 1st graders match pieces of words and pictures that are divided between the beginning consonant and the -ook ending. They make six words which include book, shook, cook, crook, hook, and brook.
Curated OER
Puzzle Trees
Elementary artists use a collage and multi-media technique to create textured trees. They study the fall trees, discussing texture and what bare trees look like. They then use a variety of materials to create a textural piece.
Curated OER
Welcome Back!
Students visually represent their identities on handmade puzzle pieces. They participate in a personal get-acquainted activity designed to build friendships in a new group. They get to know new classmates with fun. Students etch five...
Curated OER
Optical Delusion
Students examine and create a tool that enables them to explore the scientific principle the Moire Effect. Using markers, paper, and scissors, they create an optical illusion that involves superimposing a grid of lines over another...
Curated OER
Landforms Crossword
After identifying an illustration and filling in the missing letters, language learners use these landform words to complete a crossword puzzle. No answer key is provided.
Curated OER
What We Do in Sports
Jump! Shoot! Throw! Language learners use sports action words to complete a crossword and a word search puzzle. An answer sheet is provided.
Curated OER
Word Exercises with Zoo Animals
In this word exercises with zoo animals worksheet, 3rd graders match 6 animals with descriptions, then solve a crossword puzzle with 6 clues.
Curated OER
ASL Crossword
Give your ASL students this crossword puzzle to fill time or review basic vocabulary terms. The clues are creatively done using visual images of the hand signs. How clever!
Illustrative Mathematics
Puzzle Times
Give your mathematicians this set of data and have them create a dot plot, then find mean and median. They are asked to question the values of the mean and median and decide why they are not equal. Have learners write their answers or...
Overcoming Obstacles
Understanding Nonverbal Communication
People communicate in all sorts of ways. As part of a study of nonverbal communication, teams of three must complete a puzzle without speaking to one another. After debriefing the activity and analyzing the messages nonverbal cues...
Baylor College
Defending Against Microbes
In the preceding lesson from the unit, beginning biologists discovered that microorganisms are everywhere, so the question follows, why are we not sick all of the time? Class members read and discuss an article in small groups about...
Illustrative Mathematics
Counting Squares
Challenge young mathematicians' understanding of squares with this geometry puzzle. The task is simple, identify as many squares as possible in a 3x3 array. Allow learners to work independently or in pairs as they search for squares,...
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Lesson Plan: Omelet Cooking Principles
Although designed for a foods lab, the information in this resource might be just the thing for your own recipe notebook. Illustrated, step-by-step directions for making the perfect omelet, egg-citing puzzles, games, and even...
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