Are you looking for parent, teacher, or care-giver activity ideas and resources that make learning earth space science fun? Kids love solving puzzles which makes using puzzles to learn about earth space an engaging, fun and interactive activity. This space scrambled letters wordangle puzzle engages critical thinking skills, activates problem solving skills while helping to build space science vocabulary. When kids are having fun, then they are learning without them even knowing it!
Download the puzzle to print and/or click on the Google Apps link to copy the file to the computer for the Google apps version.
Solve the Puzzle
-first, rearrange the scrambled letters to reveal the words; print the correct spelling beside the word clue
-then, locate the 20 words hidden in the grid
-next, trace the letter paths until all the words have been located; watch for any right angled turn in the word paths
-finally, track progress by crossing off the words as they are found
Choice Board Activity Ideas
l. ACTIVATE student curiosity by encouraging them to ask WHAT IF questions. For example: What if the Milky Way did not have a sun? Then what? Explain your thinking.
2. FOSTER creativity by involving kids' imaginations: get kids to construct a treasure map using some of the space words in the list (e.g. gravity, globe, sphere)
3. ENGAGE problem solving strategies in a fun way by getting kids to construct their own puzzles to share with others, using the list of words from the puzzle [e.g. crossword puzzles (regular, freeform, crosspatch), matching, scrambled letters, word searches from blank word search grids (links below)].
Link to blank word search grids: blank word search
Link to basic 11x11 word search grid: 11 by 11 grid
Link to sun shaped, blank word search grid: sun shaped word search grid Use this blank grid as a: planet, the sun, full moon, new moon, harvest moon
Link to moon shaped, blank word search grid: moon shaped word search grid
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