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PUZZLES & GAMES
Discovery
School: Puzzlemaker
allows you to create and print out puzzles & games for your newsletters,
flyers, handouts, or classroom assignments. If you are doing a CrissCross
puzzle, the following settings will produce a puzzle that will fit on
a single sheet: width 25, height 30, cell-size 25.
Use
Eclipse
Crossword to make an interactive crossword puzzle that your students
can do right on the web! Click
here to try a sample (requires Internet Explorer 5 or later) You can
use this software to create printed puzzles as well. Free
download, fast & easy!
Interactive
Crossword Puzzles at abcTeach: Very cool! You can't make your own
unless you order Crossword
Compiler, but there's a nice selection of pre-made puzzles available
for your students. Try
this one about the solar system!
Macromedia
Jigsaw Puzzlemaker - import a picture (scan a postcard, etc.) and
this on-line resource turns it into a jigsaw puzzle. Macromedia Shockwave
8 Player required (free
download here) to play. You can also e-mail your puzzle to friends
or students.
Mark
Damon offers PowerPoint versions of various well-known games. Download
them for free, then unzip them and add your own questions.
Owl
& Mouse Educational Software: Help your students learn with games,
software (most of it free!) and educational activities from Owl &
Mouse. Committed to making the capabilities and potential of personal
computers available to parents and teachers to provide individualized
and intriguing learning for children.
Note: really cool, free interactive map puzzles!
Personal
Educational Press: This web site lets you turn your computer and printer
into a printing press for free educational materials such as:
- Flashcards
- BINGO boards
- Word Scramble
- Tracing Sheets
Quia!
A subscription-based site where you can create your own on-line learning
activities or explore thousands of activities in over 40 subject areas.
Quia has added lots of options recently: class page; matching, concentration,
flash cards, and/or word search games; hangman game; jumbled words game;
pop-ups game; challenge board game; quizzes and surveys.Click here to
see samples of various Quia! activities.
