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Ten Quick Ideas for Using
Star Wars® Pit Droids® in the Classroom

1. Using the Puzzle Maker, provide a challenge by specifying three puzzle construction elements and challenging kids to see how many different ways they can use them to create puzzles.

2. Introduce specific concepts using Pit Droids. For example, to introduce sorting by attribute, select specific puzzles that illustrate sorting by single or multiple attributes. Solve the first puzzle together as a class, and then "assign" other puzzles for practice. Finish by asking kids to make their own attribute-based puzzles.

3. Choose an easy puzzle. Ask the kids to identify how many different ways they can solve it.

4. Choose a complex puzzle. See who can solve it using the fewest arrows.

5. Play one of the routing puzzles. Then have kids design "human" routing puzzles. Set up these human puzzles in a large space such as a multipurpose room or gymnasium and let the teams solve each other's puzzles.

6. Give kids a classic math puzzle such as "The Traveling Salesman." Ask them to create a similar puzzle using Pit Droids Puzzle Maker.

7. Use Pit Droids for a family math night event. Have the kids create puzzles for their parents to solve in advance of the event. Let teams of kids and parents create puzzles for each other to solve.

8. Experiment with setting up the same puzzle in different forms - on the computer, on a paper grid, with blocks, etc. See how changing the form of the puzzle affects the way it is understood and solved.

9. Project an easy or medium difficulty puzzle. Ask the students to write out the directions for solving it.

10. Introduce the concept of ratios with a puzzle that utilizes ratio arrows. Then create three ratio arrows and place them throughout the classroom. Have the kids line up in a straight line and follow the paths created by the arrows.

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