Loads of Internet sites offer puzzles, riddles, word games, and other games to stimulate fun and learning. Puzzles and riddles have an inherent appeal to children, and through play, children can develop new concepts and reinforce skills in curriculum areas such as language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. Visiting such sites engages students in learning through intriguing activities while enabling students to become more computer savvy. The puzzles found here include word searches, such as an Egyptian word search and a computer word search, as well as jumbles, fill-ins, and jigsaws.
Most puzzles are of medium difficulty.
An ideal resource to enhance a Fire Safety unit, all games on this site are instrumental in teaching a fire-safety lesson. This site is a good resource for younger elementary students. Here's another source of a variety of puzzles, including a hangman game. A different and nice feature of this site is an art gallery on which children can post their own artwork. This site, with its word games for kids, provides the perfect focus for language arts.