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Free Printable Earth Day Word Search
A grid shaped like the planet, with the next step of the lesson spelled out in the leftover letters.
Made by the PaperCarnival team · Updated
24 hidden words · answer key included · US Letter & A4
Earth Day lessons tend to arrive with a lot of vocabulary and not much paper to put it on. This is a word search in the shape of the planet, holding the words the lesson is going to use anyway: recycle, compost, habitat, pollen, the seedling and the sapling.
The circle is a real mask on the grid, so the letters stop at the edge and the words hide inside the planet rather than in a square with a circle printed on it. Twenty four words, none of them dropped.
It works as a starter while the class comes in, and it works as the back-up when the planting session gets rained off.
The leftover squares are not random. Read them left to right, top to bottom, and they spell an instruction, which is where the lesson goes next.
The hidden words
Every word in the puzzle, or edit the list in the generator
- Recycle
- Compost
- Planet
- Ocean
- Forest
- Rivers
- Habitat
- Wildlife
- Meadow
- Garden
- Seedling
- Sapling
- Beeswax
- Pollen
- Solar
- Windmill
- Rainfall
- Litter
- Reuse
- Repair
- Clean
- Earth
- Turtle
- Bloom
Ways to use it
The lesson starter
Something on every desk while the class comes in, holding the vocabulary you are about to use.
Vocabulary check
Ask each child to pick three words from the grid and say what they mean. The puzzle becomes the warm-up.
Outdoor day back-up
For when the planting session is rained off and the afternoon still has to go somewhere.
Timed round
Set a timer for the last ten minutes of the lesson and see who finds the most inside the circle.
Questions
Why is the grid a circle?
It is the planet, and it makes a better display than a square. The circle holds twenty four words with none dropped.
What age is it for?
It suits roughly ages seven to eleven. The longest word is eight letters and the list is the vocabulary most Earth Day lessons already use.