Use puzzles to teach fundamental development skills such as spatial awareness, reasoning, sorting, fine motor skills, and social interaction. Plus puzzles provide a powerful avenue to leverage more advanced learning strategies: vocabulary development as students creatively describe the picture; cooperative learning as students work together; theme based instruction when used with specific literature, holidays, or curriculum units. And puzzles are a great addition to many of MindWorks Resources core products. Ocean and jungle puzzles go perfect with Camp Literacy and Chunky Puzzles are a creative alternative to traditional blocks for Teaching with Purpose "Blocks" centers.