Looking for choice board activity ideas and resources to support independent learning about landforms? Here is a landforms word maze puzzle that engages critical thinking skills while helping kids build vocabulary. Word paths wander right, left, up, down and diagonally. Some letter paths may cross.
Available as puzzle to print and in Google Slide™ format.
Solve the puzzle
-review the list of words in the word bank
-locate the circled letter, |F|
-trace the letter path for the first word
-at the end of one word path, using the list of word clues and the letters in the grid at the end of the first word path, decide on the next word and then trace its path. Continue until the maze is complete with all word paths traced and connected.
-track progress by crossing off each word as it is located in the grid
Choice board activity resource ideas:
l. encourage kids to create puzzles to exchange with others to solve [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, card game, or BINGO game using landforms vocabulary
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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