| Half Baked Potatoes
Software |
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| EdHelper.Com |
A site with worksheet generators, problems, exams, and standard
tests. |
| School
Discovery |
School Discovery.Com is a leading educational site and offers a
variety of teacher resources. Their puzzle site offers the following
types of puzzles:
- Mazed
Things - Unique Hand Drawn Mazes
- Word
Search - Type in a list of words and the computer will hide them in
a grid of letters. Choose the size, set a few options and you are
finished.
- Word
Search with a Hidden Message - After all the words are found the
remaining letters used reveal a hidden message.
- Criss-Cross
Puzzle - Your list of words willb e linked together, numbered and
formatted, ready for you to print and hand out.
- Computer
Generated Mazes - Choose from a variety of shapes, set the size, and
the computer will generate a unique maze ready to paste into your
newsletter.
- Number
Block - Creates a block of numbers that will challenge arithmetic
and algebra skills. Each row, column and diagonal add up to a total but
some numbers are missing.
- Math
Square-Math formulas are linked together to form a square.
- Double
Puzzle- Enter a set of words or phrases to be scrambled. Then enter
a final phrase that the solver will be able to put together from the
letters in the clue words. The final phrase can be scrambled or
numbered.
- Cryptograms
- Enter a phrase and the computer will assign a number to each
letter.
- Letter
Tiles-Enter a phrase and the computer will break it into tiles with
letters on them. The solver unscrambles the tiles to rebuild the
phrase.
- Fallen
Phrase -Enter a phrase and the computer will place the letters in a
grid. Each letter appears in the same column, but below where it should
be. The solver must put the letters back in the grid and rebuild the
phrase.
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| Creating
Worksheets at School Discovery.Com |
Another School Discovery.com site that serves as a wonderful resources
for teachers. It allows teachers to create worksheets or select from
one of the many pre-made sites. |
| Creating
Quizzes at School Discovery.Com |
A great site for creating quizzes. These quizzes can be made to
print or for students to complete on-line. Use of these services is
free, but does require registration. (sample
quiz) |
| Connecting
Students.Com |
A site with many pre-made puzzles (crossword and word search)
available. A neat feature of the site is that it also has links to
where students can find more information to answer the questions.
Possible puzzle subjects include: books (Harry Potter, Seuss), holidays,
people, science, social studies. |
| Games Kids
Play |
While this is NOT a site to create quizzes or use
the computer, it provides you with the rules to the games you played as a
kid. This site is packed with rules to those old favorites. (A good
resources for games not on the
Internet) |
