Space exploration word search
- Words
- 16 words
Space word searches
Recognize the theme vocabulary before scanning the grid. Examples include moon, planet, star, rocket, comet, telescope.
Ready to print 4 printables
Levels
- Easy
- 8 × 8 · 6 words · across and down
- Medium
- 11 × 11 · 10 words · diagonals too
- Hard
- 15 × 15 · 16 words · all 8 directions
- Large print
- 12 × 12 · 14 mm squares · 10 words
Vocabulary for the search
Recognize the theme vocabulary before scanning the grid. Examples include moon, planet, star, rocket, comet, telescope. Follow the activity’s own list; these examples are conversation starters, not an inventory of every sheet.
After the activity
Sort words into celestial objects and human-made objects; a rocket belongs in the second group. Distinguish objects seen in the sky from vehicles and instruments used to explore it.
Use a search method
Find a word’s first letter and check its next letter before following the whole sequence. Mark from the first letter to the last and cross the entry off the list. Words can share letters: finding one does not remove those cells from other searches.