Try these brain boosters for your students who like to solve puzzles.  You can browse through brain boosters that develop categorization skills, lateral thinking, logic, number reasoning, spacial awareness and word usage.  You can use them to start the day, to break up a lesson and to provide enrichment.   Some students love the challenge [...]

A scavenger hunt is a good cooperative activity.  Plus you can adapt scavenger hunts to different subjects.  These picture scavenger hunts reinforce letter recognition and basic vocabulary.  There are nature hunts for science class and holiday hunts for special activities.  Once you take a look at these scavenger hunts, you will see how you can [...]

If you can’t find a clear surface for a jigsaw puzzle, try one of these online puzzles.  I like the variety of pictures and the different levels of difficulty.  I find these slider puzzles quite a challenge, but they might be easy for some of you with different puzzle abilities!

The website SoftSchools has numerous online games for math, language arts, science, social studies, Spanish and French.  There are games for students in Pre-K through Middle School.  I suggest testing the games before using them because some are more boring than others and the graphics differ greatly from one to the next.  Most of the [...]