Are you looking for creative ideas to support differentiated learning with free, printable activities and resources for Earth Space? This word search puzzle includes letter hints to support differentiated learning. Choice board activity ideas, found below, include a number of creative ideas to support learning. Puzzle is suitable for students in grades 4,5,6, home schools and as a tutoring resource.
Puzzle is available in both downable for printing format and by clicking on the Google apps link to copy the file to the computer for the Google apps version.
To solve the puzzle:
l. locate words hidden in the grid
2. use the letter hint to start each word
3. trace the word path
4. track progress by checking off each word as it is found in the grid
Choice board activities could include:
l. INSPIRE creativity by getting kids to develop their own puzzle set for others to solve: word searches using blank grids (see links below), crossword puzzles, scrambled letters, or matching puzzles
2. ENGAGE students' imaginations by having kids combine earth space words with music to create something new!
3. FOSTER students' innovation by getting them to construct a model for one of the words listed. For example: Earth's elliptical orbit, planetarium, celestial body
Link to blank word search grids: blank word search
Here is a link to the basic 15 by 15 word search grid: 15 by 15 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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