Dig-It Games
Mayan Mysteries
Who is Ladrone? Join Fiona and Charlie as they accompany their Uncle Alex to Guatemala to help Chief Mateo determine the identity of the elusive Ladrone and solve Mayan mysteries. Players of this interactive game learn much about Mayan...
Coloring Squared
Baseball Player Mystery Puzzle
After solving each multiplication sentence square, pupils color the numbers according to the key. What does the mystery picture make? Class members take a swing at problem solving to find out.
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Mystery Writing Lesson Plans
Introduce your class to the genre of mystery. Included is a vocabulary list, a rubric, and a sample mystery story called "Lethal Lesson." There are very limited directions on what to do with these resources, so you will need to plan some...
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Solving Mummy Mystery Helps History Come Alive
Students uncover more mysteries of Ancient life. They see how artifacts can reveal much about a complex culture's history and beliefs. They study the long line of ancient Egypt's pharaohs.
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Math Puzzle Picture
The key to solving this puzzle lies in the addition skills of young learners. The first step is to answer a series of decimal addition problems organized in a 4x5 grid. Then cut apart the page of puzzle pieces, each one including an...
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Medical Mysteries
Use the theme of medical mystery to engage students in analyzing the influence of culture, media, technology, and other factors on health. They will explore problem solving and mystery diseases as they practice and improve public...
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Improving Deductive Reasoning Skills
Students develop a strategy list for problem solving by working with different types of problems. They recognize problems that may be solved using deductive reasoning and solve deductive reasoning problems.
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Mystery Numbers
In this mystery number activity, students begin with a 3 digit number and using the code key, find the sum or difference in each shape as a spiral puzzle is solved.
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Mystery Numbers- Enrichment Worksheet
In this mystery numbers worksheet, 1st graders fill in a square in each of 8 equations. They solve an addition problem and its inverse subtraction problem before writing the number on the blank line. They make up their own problems in...
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English Skills Worksheet (6.203)
In this multiple English activities worksheet, students complete a variety of assignments: write three onomatopoeia sentences, add ten endings to ten words, give the root words to eight words, play two rounds of word chess, find the...
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House and Holmes: A Guide to Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
Test your pupils' reasoning skills with several activities and a quick mystery to solve. Learners watch and analyze a few video clips that demonstrate reasoning in action, practice deduction with an interactive and collaborative...
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Fourth of July Addition and Subtraction
What is Thomas Jefferson signing? Focus on American history with this cross-curricular math puzzle. Learners utilize addition and subtraction skills to solve the mystery of the Fourth of July. All numbers are 3-digit, and there are no...
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Puzzle Mystery
Learners sketch and give a title to a painting which they are given a small detail of. In this painting lesson plan, students share their titles and try to determine the theme and subject of the full painting based on these clues. At the...
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Puzzle Mystery
Students solve the mystery of which painting they are reproducing by sketching. They determine the mood and imagery in artwork.
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Halloween Mystery Math: Addition
In this math puzzle instructional activity, learners solve 23 addition problems. Students then follow instructions with answers to solve a word puzzle.
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Mystery Math
Here is an interesting "trick" your young mathematicians can perform. They are taught how to find any number's "digital root," by following a set of detailed instructions. The process works for any number, and is the type of math puzzle...
Penguin Books
Educator's Guide: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code is filled with secrets. Help readers find the clues, solve the riddles and puzzles, and unwrap the mysteries with a six-page guide that includes before, during, and after reading discussion questions and...
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How Sweet it Is...
For this Christmas activity worksheet, students use their spelling skills to unscramble the 15 sets of letters to form words that have to do with Christmas. Students use those answers to solve a mystery message.
101 Questions
Coke Jacuzzi System of 3
Can you determine the exact volume of a bottle based on the relative volume of other bottles? A series of four videos shows someone pouring fluid into bottles. Scholars must set up a system of equations to determine how much each bottle...
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Nate the Great: Write Your Own Mystery
In this Nate the Great writing activity worksheet, students fill in the 26 blanks in "The Case of the Missing Book" with noun, adjective, and adverbs to create their own mystery.
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Case of the Broken Eggs
For this case of the broken eggs worksheet, students put their problem solving skills to use as they solve the 2 puzzles that require them to work with fractions.
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Red Rock Mysteries Word Scramble
For this Red Rock Mysteries book series word search worksheet, students locate the 21 words or names listed in the puzzle and circle them to solve the word puzzle.
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Valentine's Day Chocolates Mystery: Sums to 198 (A)
For some Valentine's Day math fun, students solve a puzzle to find how many chocolates are in the candy box. Students add two digit numbers to other two digit numbers, and each answer over 98 represents a candy in the Valentine's candy box.
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Riddles (Math Puzzles)
In this math activity, students solve 4 math riddles in which the mystery number is determined. Students analyze the clues and name the mystery number.