Earth Space Wordsearch 12

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Earth Space Wordsearch 12

Earth Space Wordsearch 12 For Google Apps
Earth Space Wordsearch 12

Are you looking for fun, interactive educator lesson plan activities and resources for Earth Space? This word search puzzle includes a list of 20 space words hidden in the grid. Choice board activity ideas, found below, include a number of creative ideas to support distance, blended and differentiated 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 first, locate words hidden in the grid. Then, trace, or circle, the letter path and finally, remember to track progress by checking off each word as it is found in the grid.

Choice board activities:
l. ENGAGE creativity by encouraging kids to ask, What if/What would happen if? questions using the list of words as clues. For example: what would happen if a meteorite escaped from its orbit and landed on __________ ? What if the earth had no moon?
2. IGNITE students' imaginations by getting kids to create a treasure map using some of the space words (e.g. observatory, through a meteorite, celestial body)
3. FOSTER innovation by getting them to engineer a model for their ideal observatory
4. CONSOLIDATE understanding of concepts by getting kids to define concepts: e.g. Hubble's Law, solstice

Link to blank word search grids: blank word search

Here is a link to the basic 15x15 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