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Basketball Word Search
In this word search learning exercise, learners read the 20 words that relate to basketball. Students then find and circle the words in the puzzle.
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Memorial Day Word Search #2
In this word search activity, students find and circle the words associated with Memorial Day in the word search puzzle. Students locate 20 words.
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Half a crossword - Jobs
For this ESL activity worksheet, students work with partners to complete a crossword puzzle. Each student is given a puzzle half completed. Their role is to give clues for the answers already given and fill in the other answers based...
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Half a crossword - The Family
In this ESL worksheet, students work in pairs to complete a crossword puzzle listing people in one's family. Students take turns giving clues for words already included in their puzzle and answering their partner's clues.
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Half a crossword - Travels by Train
In this ESL worksheet, students work with a partner to complete a crossword puzzle with answers related to train transportation. Students listen to clues from their partner to complete their puzzle and give clues to help their partner...
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Challenge: Tangram
In this tangram worksheet, learners trace and cut out pieces, arranging and pasting solved tangram puzzle on a separate piece of paper. Answers on page 2.
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Tucson Children's Museum Dino Crossword
In this crossword puzzle, students complete a crossword puzzle related to dinosaurs, the era in which dinosaurs lived, and about other animals that lived during that time period.
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Christmas tips
Students integrate a wide variety of Christmas themes within this lesson. They research the background to the history of this holiday. Students create Christmas cards, crossword puzzles and write creative stories on their special...
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Spelling: Unscramble and Complete the Crossword
In this spelling worksheet, students first unscramble letters to form spelling words, then complete a crossword puzzle using the given clues.
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Back To School Crossword
In this reading worksheet, learners analyze 10 words which pertain to Back to school time. Students read clues and fit the words in the crossword puzzle.
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Fire Safety Secret Decoder
In this fire safety activity, students use a letter decoder key to determine 15 fire safety related words. A reference web site is included for additional activities.
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Introduce Vocabulary: Tar Beach
Students explore language arts by reading a children's book in class. In this story vocabulary instructional activity, students read the book Tar Beach and discuss the setting and plot with their classmates. Students define a list of...
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The Mission of the Prophets
Young scholars examine the purpose and significance of the Manifestations of God. They create a code-breaker chart and uncover a hidden message in a puzzle, read a story and answer discussion questions, and write a reflection and...
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Communicate - Without Talking?
Students discuss and define communication and identify different ways of communicating with people. Students then practice team building and non-verbal communication skills as they work silently in small teams to put puzzles together.
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Order It Up!
Students use the game "Order It Up" an activity about the solar system statistics. The teacher is in the front of a classroom with an Internet-capable computer and a computer projector projecting the game onto the screen. Students have...
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Be A Perfect Person in Just Three Days- Lesson 7
Students review a book. In this reading comprehension lesson, students take a vocabulary and comprehension test. Students complete a book review activity of the book Be A Perfect Person In Just Three Days, complete a story...
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Water Microbes and Human Health
Learners research the possible sources and human health effects of microbes found in recreational and drinking water. They explore the range of negative outcomes of contact with contaminated recreational and drinking water by creating...
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Muggie Maggie- Lesson 9
Students identify cause, effect and story elements. In this reading comprehension lesson, students review previously learned vocabulary words and definitions as well as the events of the story Muggie Maggie. Students create a...
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Weather Words
Students brainstorm and define five terms for precipitation, discuss reasons why English language includes various terms for wet weather, and create word games such as jumbles, word searches, or crossword puzzles with weather terms.
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The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Students follow along as they read chapters in the book The Mouse and the Motorcycle. They work with a partner and choose 5 objects to measure when the class does the measuring activity. Students make a picture dictionary using at...
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Jesus Teachings
In this Biblical activity worksheet, students assess the meaning behind Jesus feeding the people with five loaves of bread and two fishes through a word search puzzle and a crossword puzzle.
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The Woman Who Slept for Thirty Years
Students are given a bit of information, but must share their information with other students in order to learn enough to solve the puzzle. When students have all the clues, they construct a theory to explain the facts. The teacher adds...
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Connect the Mathematical Dots
Teachers can choose visual activities that demonstrate the elegance associated with the coordinate plane.
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Where in the World...?
Students use longitude and latitude to locate various cities, regions, landforms, and bodies of water around the globe. They use The New York Times Learning Network's crossword puzzle 'Longitude and Latitude' to sharpen their atlas skills.