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Puzzlemaker. Teaching tools. Puzzlemaker (Discovery Education). http://www.discoveryeducation.com/free-puzzlemaker/? CFID=1275755&CFTOKEN=73559956 It’s FREE ! Offers a variety of different puzzles and games from word searches to math puzzles
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Puzzlemaker Teaching tools
Puzzlemaker (Discovery Education) • http://www.discoveryeducation.com/free-puzzlemaker/?CFID=1275755&CFTOKEN=73559956 • It’s FREE! • Offers a variety of different puzzles and games from word searches to math puzzles • Easy to use. Plug in the information you want and it does the work for you.
Perks of Puzzlemaker • User friendly • HTML or text format • format friendly for printing or cutting and pasting to a different application • Word Filter • Generates student copy and answer key • Includes instructions
Cautions while using Puzzlemaker • Still suggests proofreading puzzles for unwanted words • Files only viewable in Netscape and Internet Explorer browsers 4.0 or higher • Site does not give decent description of puzzles (have to make a sample to see what it is).
How does this benefit learning? • Makes learning FUN! • Ex.) The math puzzles involve critical thinking, reasoning, and math skills but students may be more intrigued simply because it is a game/puzzle. • Could be used as quiet, but educational, on-topic work (after a test, etc) • Introduction to a topic • Ex.) Could use a “hidden message” puzzle to introduce vocabulary words with the main topic of the next lesson being the hidden message.
Types of Puzzles • Word Search • Criss-Cross • Double Puzzles • Fallen Phrases • Math Squares • Mazes • Letter Tiles • Cryptograms • Number Blocks • Hidden Message
SampleUse the following words/phrase to make sample puzzles • Title: The skeleton • Word Bank Scapula Femur Patella Tibia Fibula Clavicle Skull Vertebrae Rib Sternum Phalanges Sacrum Coccyx Ulna Radius Mandible • Phrase: The adult skeleton is made of two hundred six bones