Archive for the ‘Puzzles’ Category

Kids Play With Invention (2009-6-19)

Kids can get creative on the interactive website Invention at Play.  Shape your own cloud and watch it float across the sky.  Can you make an animal cloud?  Flip and turn blocks to fit together to make shapes like tangram puzzles.  This is not as easy as it looks!  Put together contraptions to get the [...]

Make Your Own Secret Codes (2009-6-15)

Kids learn all about making and breaking secret codes and cyphers on the National Security Agency’s interactive website CryptoKids.  Learn and practice morse code.  Find out the difference between codes and cyphers.  Learn to use 6 different types of cyphers.  This educational website also has brainteasers and other activities related to codes, logic, and security.  [...]

Travel on an Elephant Odyssey (2009-6-12)

Kids can explore the past as a mammoth on San Diego Zoo’s beautiful interactive website Elephant Odyssey.  See what other kinds of animals lived with mammoths 200,000 years ago.  Use the space bar to interact with animals and to move trees and other objects to get to blocked areas.  Eat food for energy and avoid [...]

Solve Interactive Rush Hour Puzzles (2009-6-9)

Kids move cars and trucks to solve traffic puzzles on the interactive website Rush Hour.  The goal is to get the red car through the exit.  To clear a path, move the other vehicles forward or backward.  The 40 puzzles start off easy at the beginner level and work up to difficult, expert levels.  This [...]

Play the USA States Educational Game (2009-6-3)

On the educational website USA States Game, kids place each US state on a blank map. Does that sound easy? Well, it isn’t! There are no outlines for where the states go, so you need to use rivers, the US borders, and latitude and longitude lines to help guide you. See [...]

Program Your Robot to Pass the Obstacle Course (2009-5-20)

Kids use logic to program a robot to either walk or jump over each colored shape in the educational website Robot Obstacle Course.  Program the robot to walk over the shapes with keys, and jump over the shapes that are traps, or your robot will fall into the trap.  Collect all the keys to move [...]

Solve the Set Daily Puzzle (2009-5-9)

Kids can stretch their brains trying to find sets of squiggles, ovals and diamonds on Set Daily Puzzle (Adults love this challenging puzzle game too!) The cards have four characteristics: color – red, green, and purple; symbol – squiggle, oval, and diamond; number – one, two, or three symbols; and shading – solid, open, [...]

Kids Can Be National Park Junior Rangers (2009-5-6)

Kids can be a Junior Ranger online in the US National Park Service’s WebRangers educational website. The 50 interactive educational activities are organized in the categories People, History, Nature, Puzzles, Science, Parks, and Animals. Each activity is also ranked easy, medium, or hard, so kids can pick activities at their level. After [...]