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Free Online Collaborative Crossword Puzzles, And More

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We've been in school for several weeks, and it is time to start thinking about study guides and review activities - or it is simply time to have a little fun. In the past, I used to find my teachers in the copy room with shreds of paper, cardboard, and glue literally cutting and pasting Crossword Puzzles together to review vocabulary or historical events. Armored Penguin is a site that makes all of that bizarre 20th Century behavior unnecessary.

Online Crossword Puzzle Shared Publicly on Armored Penguin

Actually, I've used Armored Penguin for several years in my European History classes. You can create an account and save or publicly share your puzzles, or you can simply load the page and create something. It takes just a few minutes to generate a crossword puzzle that your students can complete online, or, for those of you who are a little more traditional, you can also easily print a PDF copy of your puzzle.

Instead of creating the puzzles yourself, you might leave it up to your students. Have them create their own study guide crossword puzzles and share them with their classmates.

In addition to the crossword puzzle generator, Armored Penguin now has:

• Word Search Generator
• Word Match Puzzle Generator
• Word Scramble Puzzle Generator
• A program called "Bagels" that is an interactive logic game that encourages students to think through a logical process
• Math worksheet creator - for simple arithmetic problems
• An "Illusions" page with a small collection of optical illusions
• "Fresh Words" web page that allows students to take a collection of letters, or a phrase, and see what other words can be made from those letters.

As with all the tools discussed in this blog, Armored Penguin is Chromebook compatible.

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