Are you an parent, teacher, care-giver looking for choice board activity ideas and resources to support students learning about landforms? This landforms word maze puzzle engages critical thinking skills while helping to build vocabulary. Word paths wander up, down, right, left and diagonally. Some letter paths may cross.
Available as puzzle to print and in Google Slide™ format.
To solve the puzzle
-first, review the list of words in the word bank
-next, locate the circled letter, |S|
-then, trace the letter path for the first word
-and, then using the list of word clues, and the letters in the grid at the end of the first word path, trace its path. Remember that letter paths can travel diagonally. The maze is complete when all word paths are traced and connected.
-finally, track progress by crossing off each word as it is located in the grid
Choice board activity ideas:
l. have students create their own puzzles to exchange with others to solve, using the list of word clues [e.g. scrambled letters puzzle; crossword puzzles; matching puzzle; word search puzzles using blank work search grids (see link below)]
2. create a board game/flash cards game/BINGO game using the words in the list
3. draw, color and label pictures of landforms
4. use list of words as research topics
Link to blank word search grids: blank word search grid.
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