Black History Month Word Search Puzzles with Answers
- Grades
- Grades 6–8, Middle School, High School
- Pages
- 7
- File type
- Answer key
- Included
- Subject
- ELA, Language Development, Vocabulary, Holiday & Seasonal, Holidays, Black History Month
- Topic
- black history month, black history
- Resource types
- Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets, Word Searches
- Answer key
- Included
About this resource
What's inside this resource
Three word search puzzles ask students to find 20 Black History Month-related terms each — civil rights vocabulary like "Emancipation," "Desegregation," and "Abolition" in the first puzzle, key figures and events like "Montgomery," "Selma," and "Rosa" in the second, and terms like "Underground," "Suffrage," and "Tubman" in the third — hidden horizontally, vertically, and diagonally in a letter grid. Each puzzle is immediately followed by its own fully solved solution page showing every word findable in the grid. The file opens with Teach Simple's standard terms-of-use and license page before the puzzles begin.
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Learning objectives
- Locate 20 Black History Month-related vocabulary words hidden horizontally, vertically, and diagonally within a letter grid, across three separate puzzles.
- Recognize and spell key civil rights vocabulary and figures' names (e.g., Emancipation, Desegregation, Montgomery, Selma, Tubman) through the word-search format.
- Self-check completed puzzles against the included solution page for each of the three word searches.
Teaching tips
- Introduce each puzzle's 20-word list as a vocabulary preview or discussion starter for a Black History Month unit before students search for the words.
- Use the three puzzles across separate class sessions rather than all at once, since each has its own 20-word list and themed vocabulary set (civil rights terms, key figures, and movements/events, respectively).
- Have students self-check with the included solution page for each puzzle rather than trading papers, since all three solutions are provided directly in the file.
Skills covered
- Vocabulary recognition — students locate Black History Month terms, names, places, and movements in word-search grids.
- Word-search strategies — directions require finding words horizontally, vertically, and diagonally.
- Spelling attention — learners scan for the letter patterns in 20-word lists for each puzzle.
- Self-checking — each word-search page is followed by a printed solution page.
Good to know
Questions teachers ask about this resource
Do all three word searches use the same 20 words, or different vocabulary each time?
Different vocabulary in each — Word Search 1 uses general civil-rights terms (Diversity, Heritage, Desegregation), Word Search 2 focuses on people and places (King, Montgomery, Selma, Rosa), and Word Search 3 focuses on movements and figures (Suffrage, Tubman, Underground, Boycott).
Is "Doglass" in Word Search 3's word list a typo?
Likely — the word list prints "Doglass" rather than "Douglass" (as in Frederick Douglass), which appears to be a spelling error in the source file rather than an intentional word choice.
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- Black History Month
- civil rights vocabulary
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