Games for the Classroom

Today we went on to Discovery Education's Puzzle Maker and Crossword Puzzle Games to create a word search puzzle and a crossword puzzle about a theme we can use in the classroom. For my word search I used words from my 5th grade science unit on The Changing Earth and for the crossword puzzle I used the 5th graders' vocabulary words from their Language Arts reader StoryTown. I liked how easy it was to come up with the puzzles on these sites. The only problem I had was printing out the crossword puzzle - the box was empty. Instead I just printed out a screen shot. :D
Online puzzles can provide for quck reviews of vocabulary or key words. They are also good for concepts that just have to be drilled. Older students can make up puzzles for their classmates to solve.