Connections Activity

Title/Skill: Wuzzle Puzzles

Connection Goal: Personalization

Grade Level: 9-12

Time Needed: 15-20 minutes

Handouts/Materials Required:

Attached Wuzzles and answers

Summary of Activity for the Advisor:

1. Split your Connections class into groups of 3 or 4.

2. Give each group 1 sheet of Wuzzles (there are 6 sheets of Wuzzles).

3. Tell the groups to solve as many Wuzzles they can in 15 or 20 minutes (you decide) and

see which group gets the most correct.

Read/Review/Discuss/Do with students:

What was challenging about this activity?

Was there a leader?

How well did your group communicate.

WUZZLE 1

WUZZLE 2

WUZZLE 3

WUZZLE 4

WUZZLE 5

WUZZLE 6

WUZZLE 7

WUZZLE 8

WUZZLE 9

WUZZLE 10

WUZZLE 11

WUZZLE 12

WUZZLE 13

WUZZLE 14

WUZZLE 15

WUZZLE 16

WUZZLE 17

WUZZLE 18

WUZZLE #1 1. Falling Temperature 2. Two Under Par

3. Fat Chance 4. Broken Heart 5. Hot Under the Collar 6. Head in the Sand WUZZLE #2 1. Over my Dead Body

2. Right Under the Nose 3. See Eye to Eye

4. Looking Out for Number One 5. Be-Line 6. Home is Where the Heart Is

WUZZLE#3 1. Somewhere Over the Rainbow

2. X Marks the Spot 3. Put two and two Together 4. Just Right 5. I Before E Except After C 6. High Seas

WUZZLE#4 1. Play on Words

2. Get in Shape 3. Monkey on Your Back

4. Dr. Dolittle 5. Fooling Around 6. A Kick in the Butt WUZZLE#5 1. Backing Up 2. Sleeping at the Wheel 3. Quarterback 4. Coffee Break 5. Identical Twins 6. Count the Ways WUZZLE#6 1. No one to Blame 2. Right between the eyes 3. Jack in the Box

4. Down Payment 5. Left Overs 6. Bedspread

WUZZLE#7 1. Cry all the way to the bank 2. The stakes are high

3. That's too bad 4. Eyes in the back of my head 5. Miniskirt 6. All in All WUZZLE#8 1. Last Dance

2. For Crying Out Loud 3. Inground Pool 4. No TV for a Week 5. High Frequency 6. Sit Ups WUZZLE#9 1. Foreign Policy 2. Party line

3. Covered Wagon 4. Back to the Future 5. Midwife 6. Off Sides

WUZZLE #10 1. Working Overtime 2. Do Without 3. Teddy Bear 4. Shot in the Dark 5. Eiffel Tower 6. Long Island WUZZLE#11 1. Tulips 2. Back in five minutes 3. One Life to Live 4. First Thing in the Morning 5. Go Through the Motion 6. The Coast is Clear WUZZLE #12 1. Better safe than sorry 2. Wheel of Fortune

3. Hard times ahead 4. Black eyed peas 5. Jumbo Jet 6. Minimize

WUZZLE #13 1. Decide 2. Spaceship

3. Multiple Choice 4. Floor Model 5. Noone Knows 6. Thunderstorm

WUZZLE #14 1. Sixth Sense

2. To Sum it Up 3. Blanket 4. Strong Undertow 5. Back Issues 6. Stretching the Truth WUZZLE #15 1. Keeping You Out of Trouble 2. Foreign Movie

3. A Little Rough Around the Edges 4. Too Little, Too Late 5. Double Your Money Back 6. Start of Something Big

WUZZLE #16 1. One step forward, two steps back 2. Double or nothing

3. Peppermint twist 4. Forefathers 5. Enroll 6. Addresses WUZZLE #17 1. You can count on it 2. Foot in the door 3. No can do

4. Honest to goodness 5. Way overpriced 6. Living on a shoestring

WUZZLE #18 1. Drawn to scale 2. Round of Applause

3. Splitting Hairs 4. They're all the same 5. There's no end to it 6. Different strokes for different folks