Provides a crossword puzzle for social studies students. Offers clues based upon early Canadian history. Invites teachers to submit their own puzzles. (SG)

The theoretical value and classroom applications of three types of puzzles are presented. Find-a-word puzzles, acrostics, and logic problems are described. (PMJ)

This collection of palindromes, pangrams, acrostics, word squares and word ladders, visual and numerical puzzles, silly names, and much more is designed to delight, surprise, and challenge both the novice and the expert player of word games. It uses the metaphor of a busy, cosmopolitan city to showcase three facets of words: forms of letters,…

Instructions are provided for adapting existing puzzles as low-cost, age-appropriate, and functional leisure materials for older secondary and adult students with severe disabilities. The process involves gluing a magazine picture over an existing puzzle base and cutting through the picture to create separate puzzle pieces. (JDD)

The importance of the availability of material resources in early childhood services, including children's and staff materials such as games and art supplies, books, blocks, toys, and other materials, should not be underestimated. When resources are stored in an attractive and easily accessible manner they are more likely to be used effectively.…

Presents suggestions for organizing instructional materials in child care centers, suggesting categories for organizing children's and staff's books and ways to organize and label children's puzzles. Suggests that organizing and labeling materials will assist in identifying material needs. Recommends that the organizational system have someone in…

A detailed analysis and computer-based solution to a puzzle addressing the arrangement of dominoes on a grid is presented. The problem is one used in a college-level data structures or algorithms course. The solution uses backtracking to generate all possible answers. Details of the use of backtracking and techniques for mapping abstract problems…

Describes specific activities for promoting the services of the school library during School Library Media Month in April. Illustrations of and instructions for making promotional buttons, bookmarks, book jackets, banners, flags and puzzles are provided. (EM)

Describes how riddles can help children develop intellectually and interact socially. Discusses riddles for children in various works: geography, poetry, mathematics, and folklore. Presents a sampler of creative activities for children, including play-acting, interviewing parents, designing exhibits, imitating news reporters, and setting up a…

Explains how school library media specialists can create and use crostic puzzles to help sixth graders learn references skills. Teaching basic reference skills and research skills is discussed with emphasis on index skills, and three sample crostic puzzles (with answers) are provided. (LRW)

Presents five puzzles in the shape of stars that contain scrambled letters and clues to help define computer terms and improve computer literacy. Use of the puzzles by students and adults in the computer labs of library media centers is discussed. Answers to the puzzles are also provided. (LRW)

Six tips for increasing student problem-solving skills are offered in this teacher fact sheet. Puzzles and simulations matched to student mental maturity and general knowledge are recommended as activities for helping students think more flexibly and practice higher order thinking skills. In addition, four suggestions are given for controlling…

Presents techniques for developing spatial visualization while dealing with concepts of area, proportion, and symmetry. Provides the objectives, directions, extensions, answers, and worksheets for each of the four activities. Describes involving parents. (YP)

The third-grade classroom teacher can identify mathematically gifted students and can provide them with opportunities for extending their understanding and enjoyment of mathematics through use of such techniques as content sophistication, enrichment, peer tutoring, curriculum compacting, puzzles, and math centers. (Author/JDD)

A compilation of materials contributed by and developed with the cooperation of Wisconsin librarians and Ohio's 1987 summer reading program, this planning manual provides guidelines for planning and promoting summer programs for young people by librarians in the state of Wisconsin. The theme of the program, "Summer Splash," is intended…