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Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Sky Glider

For Students 3rd - 8th
Can you build a blimp (airship) that travels in a straight path across the room? Give this one a try.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Zip Line

For Students 3rd - 8th
Your job is to design and build a ping-pong carrier and send it down a zip line in 4 seconds or less. Are you up to the task?
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Helping Hand

For Students 3rd - 8th
Can you design and build a device that will let you grab and drop objects from at least two feet away? Give it a try!
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Website
Scholastic

Scholastic: I Spy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
These interactive matching games for elementary age students combine visuals of familiar objects and rhyming riddles to create brain-teasing puzzles.
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Interactive
PBS

Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: Games: Quack's Apples

For Students 3rd - 8th
Students are challenged to position sticks creating a path so apples land into the pond.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How High Can You Count on Your Fingers? Spoiler:much Higher Than 10

For Students 9th - 10th
How high can you count on your fingers? It seems like a question with an obvious answer. After all, most of us have ten fingers- or to be more precise, eight fingers and two thumbs. This gives us a total of ten digits on our two hands,...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Airplane Riddle?

For Students 9th - 10th
Professor Fukano, the famous scientist, has embarked on a new challenge - piloting around the world in a plane of his own design. There's just one problem: there's not enough fuel to complete the journey. Luckily, there are two other...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the River Crossing Riddle?

For Students 9th - 10th
As a wildfire rages through the grasslands, three lions and three wildebeest flee for their lives. To escape the inferno, they must cross over to the left bank of a crocodile-infested river. Can you help them figure out how to get across...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Passcode Riddle?

For Students 9th - 10th
In a dystopian world, your resistance group is humanity's last hope. Unfortunately, you've all been captured by the tyrannical rulers and brought to the ancient coliseum for their deadly entertainment. Will you be able to solve the...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Control Room Riddle?

For Students 9th - 10th
As your country's top spy, you must infiltrate the headquarters of the evil syndicate, find the secret control panel, and deactivate their death ray. But your reconnaissance team is spotty, and you have only limited information about the...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Locker Riddle?

For Students 9th - 10th
Your rich, eccentric uncle just passed away, and you and your 99 nasty relatives have been invited to the reading of his will. He wanted to leave all of his money to you, but he knew that if he did, your relatives would pester you...