Puzzled About Weather?( ) |
Can puzzles help the brain? Any resource or tool that challenges and engages the brain is sure to create stronger and more robust connections between and among the various brain areas. Using puzzles is one way to activate the brain, while helping to consolidate understanding of vocabulary.
To solve this scrambled letters weather word search puzzle, students' brains need to unjumble the letters. To do this, the brain compares known spelling, letter and word patterns with what is 'sees' on the page. From there, it works to reorganize the letters into something that makes sense. Then, students need to locate that word hidden in the grid, which activates other problem solving strategies. Often these strategies are transferable skills to other areas of the curriculum.
Puzzles are one tool that help students with independent self-directed learning.