Solar System Planets word search, scramble and crossword puzzle
- Year levels
- Pre-school (Early Years), Foundation–Year 6
- Pages
- 6
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- Answer key
- Included
- Subject
- Vocabulary, Holiday & Seasonal, Reading, Language Development, English
- Topic
- Word Search, Word Scramble
- Resource types
- Crosswords Puzzles, Word Searches
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- Included
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I made this solar system planets puzzle set for my Year 3 and 4 students during our space unit. The kids could name most planets but kept forgetting the order and which ones were gas giants versus rocky planets. So I put together a word search, a word scramble, and a crossword using words like Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, orbit, asteroid belt, dwarf planet, gas giant, terrestrial, and sun. Nothing fancy — just puzzles to help the names and facts stick.
The download is three two-page PDFs: each puzzle comes with its answer page. The word search works well for quiet time after break. The scramble gets them talking because they argue over how to spell "Mercury" or whether Pluto counts. The crossword I use for partners. I added a couple simple planet circle drawings but nothing too busy.
Works for Years 2 to 5. Print and go. Sometimes I have early finishers list the planets in order from the sun on the back. The kids actually ask for these now.
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Learning objectives
Identify planets from short descriptive clues
Distinguish terrestrial planets from gas giants by name
Skills covered
Science vocabulary — solving crossword clues about planets, orbit and rotation
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