Looking for teacher, care-giver, parent resources to support independent distance learning? Here is a landforms scrambled letters word maze puzzle that engages kids' problem solving strategies, engages critical thinking skills, and supports fine motor skills. Word maze can be completed independently. Word paths wander right, left, up, and down but not diagonally. This pattern creates a unique maze within the grid. Letter paths do not cross.
Challenging puzzle is available in both printable and Google Slide™ formats.
Solve the puzzle
1. unscramble the letters to reveal the correct spelling; print the correct spelling
2. review the list of words
3. locate the circled letter, |A|
4. trace the letter path (remember that letters only travel up/down/right/left)
5. at the end of the letter path, review the word list and comparing with surrounding letters at the end of the word path, decide which word to trace next
6. continue with steps 4-5 until all word paths are traced
7. track progress by crossing out each word as it is found
Ideas for choice boards:
l. engage kids' CREATIVITY by encouraging them to make word searches, to exchange with other to solve, using blank word search grids (link below)
2. students use the list of words to create flash cards, a board game, or a BINGO game
3. create 3D model of landforms and label it
4. define a landform and how it was created
5. create a scavenger hunt of landforms (either online or offline)
Here is the link to blank word search grids: blank word search grid template.
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