Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Abundant Area
This is an inquiry and technology-based activity that allows students to discover the relationship between perimeter and area. Students apply problem-solving strategies to solve the real-life problem posed in this activity. This activity...
Joe Landsberger
Study Guides and Strategies: Problem Solving and Decision Making
Learn step-by-step problem solving skills with this free and user-friendly study guide. Integrate the strategies into your lesson plans or use the actual study guide to each your students about problem solving and decision making.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Puzzle Drops
Puzzle Drops is a fun match-3 puzzle game that the whole family will enjoy! Click/tap to rotate the puzzle piece and then drag it to the appropriate place on the game board. You'll have to use some strategy to reach the goal in each level.
Other
Loughborough Univ.: Young Children's Problem Solving in Design and Technology
This 1997 article from the Journal of Design & Technology Education at Loughborough University in the UK looked at the problem-solving strategies young children use in design and technology tasks, both independently and when working...
Other
Critical Reading: Three Ways to Read and Discuss Texts
Designed to help students think about their reading and writing skills, this page offers three different ways to interpret and discuss texts.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: The Inquiry Teaching Strategy
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides information about using inquiry when teaching. An explanation shares the importance of using inquiry to spur curiosity in students as they engage in research.
Hopelink
Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Fact or Opinion?
In this lesson, students must learn to recognize the differences between fact and opinion.
FNO Press
Fno.org: Inspired Investigations
An article at From Now On about how to help students do better research by changing the focus of research assignments and teaching students to ask essential questions. Some suggestions include using mind mapping, and using Inspiration to...
Other
Fno: A Questioning Toolkit
An article in which Jamie McKenzie states his belief that each district should create a Questioning Toolkit which contains several dozen kinds of questions and questioning tools. Portions of the Questioning Toolkit should be introduced...
Maths Challenge
Maths challenge.net: Problem Solving Database
Need some challenging problem-solving work for your students in the following areas: Discrete, Geometry, Numbers, and Code Breaking? This is the place for an enormous database of problems aimed at high school age students. They are...
Google
Google for Education: Machine Testing
Students test the functionality of a mysterious new machine whose operations are described to the class, but cannot be opened up for further investigation. Students come up with a testing strategy for this machine, test it according to...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Hungry Games
Cookieness Evereat needs your help to win The Hungry Games. Hone those executive functioning skills by practicing patience and strategies when you have to wait for something. Stop and think about what comes next in patterns and sort...
FNO Press
From Now On: Filling the Tool Box
Dr. Jamie McKenzie offers this comprehensive look at how to help students develop questioning skills. Practical suggestions for how to implement the ideas are also included.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Wizard Standoff Riddle?
You've been chosen as a champion to represent your wizarding house in a deadly duel against two rival magic schools. Your opponents are a powerful sorcerer who wields a wand that can turn people into fish, and a powerful enchantress who...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Blobble
Blobble is slimy strategy puzzle game that will keep you slipping and sliding for hours! The goal is to fill an entire space with blobs, using only the tools available in each level. Do you have what it takes to complete all 45 levels?
ABCya
Ab Cya: Baby Chick Maze
Baby Chick Maze is a fun memory-based strategy game for the whole family! Help the baby chick get back to its mother by guiding it through challenging mazes from memory. Don't blink! You might miss the path the baby chick needs to take.
Other
Learning Enrichment:reading Skills in the Social Studies
Discussion of the critical reading skills needed in Social Studies, although the skills discussed can apply to a variety of areas. This is part of a larger site containing numerous lesson plans for Social Studies, and this page is really...
PBS
Pbs: Black Kingdoms of the Nile
A geometry lesson that examines the history and structure of ancient pyramids and engages learners in constructing pyramid models. A comprehensive lesson that considers students with diverse learning styles. Math concepts introduced...
University of Hawai'i
University of Hawaii: Communication Ethics
"Active Learning, Critical Thinking and Multicultural Education in Communication Ethics" discusses strategies to assist students in dealing with moral issues and to develop higher order thinking in the ethical decision-making process.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Beating Heart
Do you know how long it takes your heart to beat 100 times? Test your estimation and number sense skills with this problem-solving challenge. A one-page activity taken from the NCTM Math Challenges for Families Collection. Hints and...
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Scholastic
Scholastic: So That's the Reason! [Pdf]
Simple, one-page printable worksheet to introduce your students to cause and effect. Gives one set example, and has space at the bottom to apply to any story you read.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Rainbow Stacker
How high can you stack? Rainbow Stacker is a fast-paced stacking game that gets progressively more difficult. Tap or click to stack the colored blocks on top of one another as accurately as you can. Keep the blocks as large as possible,...
Edutopia
Edutopia: K 5 I Pad Apps for Evaluating Evaluation
The cognitive domain Evaluating focuses on skills necessary to judge the value of ideas, techniques, products, or solutions. Students must evaluate the credibility or functionality of given content with clearly defined criteria and...