Jigsaw Planet

What's better than cuddling up with a blanket, hot chocolate, and a good puzzle? This post will discuss how to make this cozy and fun experience an interactive and virtual one!

•  Jigzone - The puzzle on the side of this blog was created using Jigzone.  Jigzone offers a puzzle of the day, ability to embed your own photos into a puzzle and then put onto your blog or website, upload your own photos as puzzles, send a puzzle postcard, and a competition option. 

• Dotty's virtual jigsaw - offers many different online puzzles to play on the computer or offline with the use of a CD. This site has many jigsaw review, daily and weekly jigsaw puzzles, online jigsaw puzzles, and puzzle downloads. 
• Apples for the teacher -  This link will take you to the winter jigsaw puzzles - snowman, snowballs, and a surprised snowman. 
• Art puzzles - Here are some great art related puzzles. 
• Jigsaw planet - Has many different online interactive jigsaw puzzles to complete. You can also create your own puzzle! 
• Atlas puzzles - Offers many fun National Geographic Atlas puzzles to complete. Simply choose a puzzle and complete it! Good luck! 
• Weather channel puzzles - Here are fun jigsaw all related to weather and weather preparedness. 
• Little Cesar fun times - Little Cesar offers four puzzles to play.  

Sit back, relax and enjoy a day building puzzles! 

Virtual Fieldtrips

Do you feel like traveling this year or semester with your students? Want to get out of house? Have cabin fever? Why not check out some of these great virtual fieldtrips to take with your class or kids on the computer or interactive whiteboard. 





Simple k12 virtual field trips - Many different virtual field trips on different topics: health, consumer science, business, history, language arts, math, science, and more!

Field Trip — Visit Awesome Places. It provides animated tours of a park, library, and city hall.

Picturing the Thirties is another great virtual web activity from the Smithsonian.Students learn about the American People in the 1930’s.

Mr. Rogers- Explore the world with Mr. Rogers

Google Earth 5. To create a tour of your own: Before you begin, come up with an itinerary of places you would like to visit. Great for students to create their own field trip of their dreams!
Smithsonian Museum Students can ‘step’ into the exhibits and take a tour through the entire museum in a 360 degree environment.

AR Sights Travel to the pyramids or the Eiffel Tower for a field trip.

Moon in Google Earth Students can visit the moon virtually using Moon view in Google Earth.

Planet in Action - Take a guided tour of the Grand Canyon, Mount St. Helens, Manhattan, and other great locations.

UPM Forest Life A field trip to a forest is a wonderful way to learn about tree species, ecosystems, habitats, and animals. UPM Forest Life aims to teach about forest. 

Olympic museum -The multi-sensory, multimedia experience enables visitors to experience interactively various sports and challenges faced by Olympic athletes. 

Take your class to the Lincoln Memorial Interactive The site features an assortment of panoramic photos from all over the monument.Tyrell museum- Exhibits range from sea dwellers to the Tyrrell's BIG attraction, the dinosaurs.

Take a virtual tour of The White House Museum - Tour the white house museum