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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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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...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve "Einstein's Riddle"?

For Students 9th - 10th
Before he turned physics upside down, a young Albert Einstein supposedly showed off his genius by devising a complex riddle involving a stolen exotic fish and a long list of suspects. Can you resist tackling a brain teaser written by one...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Prisoner Hat Riddle?

For Students 9th - 10th
You and nine other individuals have been captured by super-intelligent alien overlords. The aliens think humans look quite tasty, but their civilization forbids eating highly logical and cooperative beings. Unfortunately, they're not...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

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

For Students 4th - 8th
In this riddle, some endangered fish species are being transported by water and a storm causes them to be thrown overboard. Your task is to devise a way to rescue them. The video provides some pointers on how to approach the problem....
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Interactive
Phil Tulga

Phil Tulga: Inference Riddles: Inference Riddle Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this game, students are asked to infer what is being described. They click on "Press to Show a Clue" revealing a line of the riddle until they have an idea of what is being described; next, they type their guess into the "Make a...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Sausage Story: A Riddle Inspired Tale

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A Writer's Workshop instructional activity in which students uncover the riddle of a Sausage Story, learn to identify the sausage sentence within the story, and finally write their own Sausage Stories along with hints for their readers...
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Riddle Book

For Students 5th - 7th
A scanned copy of the 1880 publication of Riddle Book, a book of riddles for children.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Teaching Poetry Through Riddles

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Excellent teaching resource that attempts to teach poetic concepts to middle schoolers by using riddles. Discusses riddles' use of metaphor, simile, and imagery, and relates these concepts to the students' understanding of poetry....
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Riddles in the Dark

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Riddles can be challenging to solve and even more challenging to write. After reading the riddles used by Gollum to try to ensnare Bilbo in chapter five of Tolkien's The Hobbit and those used by Bilbo to outwit Gollum, students use their...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Left Brained Writing Prompt: Sausage Story: A Riddle Inspired Tale

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this lesson, students discover the riddle of sausage stories and learn to original write sausage sentences and then move up to sausage stories. Read and discover the riddle!
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Favourite Rhymes and Riddles

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A scanned copy of the 1896 publication of Favourite Rhymes and Riddles, a book of poems for children.
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Activity
Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: The Riddle We Can Guess

For Students 9th - 10th
A poem from Emily Dickinson, "The Riddle We Can Guess", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Ellie Wen and can access a printable version of this piece.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Nova: Riddles of the Sphinx

For Students 9th - 10th
The Great Sphinx has remained a mystery for centuries. How was it built and who or what does it represent? These are a few of the questions that Nova's team of archeologists try to answer as they search for clues about these colossal...
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Handout
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Riddle of the Bones

For Students 9th - 10th
At the online companion Web site of "Evolution," the seven-episode series on PBS, piece together clues to how one of our early ancestors looked as you examine images from four significant fossil finds of Australopithecus afarensis.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: 1st Grade Act. 11: Fairy Tale Riddles & Puppet Shows

For Teachers K - 1st
During this multi-day unit, students will engage in segmentation and blending skills. Students will work with fairy tales and include them into a puppet show.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: "Riddles in the Dark" From the Hobbit [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A reader's theater script for J. R. R. Tolkien's book, The Hobbit, is provided on this resource. Six character roles are needed in this activity.
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Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing With Writers: Writing I Spy Riddle Rhymes

For Students 3rd - 5th
Work through each step of this interactive learning module to write your won Riddle Rhyme. This activity can be completed online or downloaded in PDF format.
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Article
W. W. Norton

W.w. Norton & Company: An Old English Riddle: The Bow [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about Old English Riddles and read an example riddle entitled "The Bow."
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

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

For Students 9th - 10th
Taking that internship in a remote mountain lab might not have been the best idea. Pulling that lever with the skull symbol just to see what it did probably wasn't so smart either. But now is not the time for regrets because you need to...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Counterfeit Coin Riddle?

For Students 9th - 10th
You're the realm's greatest mathematician, but ever since you criticized the Emperor's tax laws, you've been locked in the dungeon. Luckily for you, one of the Emperor's governors has been convicted of paying his taxes with a counterfeit...
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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 Prisoner Boxes Riddle?

For Students 9th - 10th
Your favorite band is great at playing music but not so great at being organized. They keep misplacing their instrucments on tour.

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