Are you looking for educator activity ideas and resources that make learning earth space science fun? Kids love solving puzzles which makes using puzzles to learn about earth space fun, interactive and engaging. This space scrambled letters wordangle puzzle 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
-rearrange the scrambled letters to reveal the words and then print the correct spelling
-locate the 20 words hidden in the grid
-trace the letter paths until all the words have been located; watch for any right angled turn in the word paths
-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 there was no oxygen? Then what? Explain your thinking. What are the alternatives?
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. oxygen, star, axis)
3. IGNITE students' creativity 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