Are you looking for fun, interactive and engaging parent, teacher and care-giver activities and resources for Earth Space? This scrambled letters word search puzzle includes a list of 20 space words hidden in the grid. Choice board activity ideas, below, include a number of ideas to help complement distance, blended and independent learning. Puzzle is suitable for students in grades 4,5,6, home schools and as a tutoring resource. Puzzle also supports differentiated learning.
Download this puzzle to print and/or click on the Google Apps link to copy the file to your computer for the Google Apps version.
To solve the puzzle:
-rearrange the letters to reveal the words hidden in the grid and then record the correct spelling, to make solving the puzzle easier
-locate words hidden in the grid and then trace, or circle, the letter paths
-track progress by checking off each word as it is found in the grid (process of elimination)
Choice board activities:
l. ENGAGE critical thinking skills 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 Saturn's orbit was more elliptical that it currently is? Then what? Generate as many ideas as possible. Include explanations.
2. INTEGRATE mapping skills with art: encourage kids to create a new astronomical body with a perfect circular orbit around the center of its universe. Remember to mapping out size, shape, the orbit. Give the new creation a name and include labels.
3. FOSTER innovation and ENGAGE critical thinking skills when students engineer a 3D model of their new astronomical body (choice board activity #2). Remember to include details about planning, materials used, problems that arose and their solutions, what worked/what did not work, reflections, next steps.
4. ACTIVATE problem solving strategies by encouraging kids to create word search puzzles using blank templates (square shape, circle shape, crescent moon shape - see links below).
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
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