PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Logical Leaps: Fractions, Mixed Numbers, and Decimals on the Number Line
In this interactive, students use logic to solve three riddles involving a frog jumping contest and then place the contestants' jumps at the correct points on the number line. Numbers are randomized so that the frogs' placements on the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Logical Leaps: Rational Numbers on the Number Line
In this interactive, use logic to solve riddles involving a wallaby jumping contest. Then, place each contestant's jump -- a fraction, mixed number, or decimal between -5 and +5 -- at the correct point on the number line. Backward jumps...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Logical Leaps: Fractions and Decimals From 0 to 1 on the Vertical Number Line
In this interactive, use logic to solve riddles involving a flea-jumping contest. Place each contestant's jump, represented by either a fraction or a decimal in both feet and inches, at the correct point on the vertical number line....
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College: Mqed: The Hand and the Key
The learning resource explores the mathematical riddles embedded in the walls of a palace.
Scholastic
Scholastic: I Spy Games Area
Games and puzzles for early elementary school children. Great looking site with easy riddles, interactive observation and object search games. A few games will help student practice reading, i.e., match a written description of an object...
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Robert Merry's Book of Puzzles by Robert Merry, Ed.
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Robert Merry's Book of Puzzles by Robert Merry, Ed. (1861), a collection of riddles, charades, and puzzles.
Cut the Knot
Cut the Knot: 3 Glasses Puzzle
Challenge students to a well-known riddle involving three different-sized glasses, some water, and a goal of a certain amount to be measured out. At this site, students can actually "pour" the water back and forth to solve the problem.
Read Works
Read Works: "As I Was Going to St. Ives"
[Free Registration/Login Required] A riddle poem by an anonymous poet. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Ancient Egypt Religion
Topics discussed: creation, symbols, polytheism, Book of the Dead, Mummification, Cartouche, Curse of the Mummy, pyramids, and the Riddle of Sphinx. Very Interactive!!! - Make your own cartouche, explore a tomb, and make your own mummy.
Starfall
Starfall: Groundhog Day
This interactive focuses on Groundhog day including the date, a riddle, and pictures of the groundhog sleeping, moving out of his nest, and a cloudy day.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Mbeere
The Mbeere live in Embu District in the Eastern Province of Kenya, East Africa. The name "Mbeere" means "first," referring to their belief that they were the initial occupants of their territory. Aesthetics center on the verbal arts,...
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Story Place: The Riddle Quest Print Out Activity: Who's Hat
In this activity, students match types of hats to the people who would wear them.
Other
Children's Storybooks Online
This site has illustrated online children's stories, riddles, and coloring books.
Other
Mycoted: Lateral Thinking Puzzles
A storehouse of puzzles designed to train the brain to think in atypical ways. Find riddles, visual puzzles, analogies, math problems, and more. Excellent source of raw material for practicing original and creative thinking one puzzle at...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Marcus Du Sautoy: Symmetry, Reality's Riddle
Oxford mathematician, Marcus du Sautoy, presents a brief look of the invisible numbers that unite all symmetrical objects as he discusses prime numbers, symmetry groups, higher dimensions and other stumpers. [18:20]
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Seven Planets Riddle?
Your interstellar police squad has tracked a group of criminals to a cluster of seven planets. Now you must apprehend them before their reinforcements arrive. Of course, the fugitives won't just stay put- they'll try to dodge you by...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Egg Drop Riddle?
The city has just opened its one-of-a-kind Faberge Egg Museum, with a single egg displayed on each floor of a 100-story building- and the world's most notorious jewel thief already has her eyes on the prize. Can you help the thief...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Troll's Paradox Riddle?
You and your brother have discovered another realm and set off exploring the new wonderful world. Along the way, you see a troll catching creatures in an enormous net. The troll agrees to release the creatures if you can come up with a...
Other
Owl Kids: Chirp Magazine: Jokes
Frequently updated resource has many jokes, riddles, and tongue twisters perfect for kids. Scroll down to see them all and to go to different pages for more laughter.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Is It?
Technology is incorporated into this "riddle" lesson as young scholars select an image to capture using a digital camera. This is a fun lesson designed to introduce students to the use of digital cameras. After editing the picture, they...
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: The Elegies of the Exeter Book
The poems in the Exeter Book known as the 'Old English elegies' focus on loss, separation, and the transience of earthly things. This article explores these poems, which include The Wanderer and The Wife's Lament, and highlights the...
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Pronunciation: What Is It?
A text and audio version [1 min, 22 sec] of Catherine Fanshawe's famous riddle poem. Vocabulary for contractions in the poem and a link to the answer are provided.
Application Magazine
Aplicaciones: Adivinanzas Interactivas
On this website you will find 40 riddles. At the end of each one there is a short quiz to test the comprehension. An option to print is also provided.
Other
Matematicas Para Ninos: El Huevo De Chocolate (The Chocolate Egg)
This resource provides basic math activities in Spanish. Topics include division, math riddles and correcting equations.
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