World Food Day Word Search 2rd 3th 4th 5th Grade worksheet activity

Join in World Food Day fun with this fun printable word search worksheet! 🌽🥗 Students will be exploring food, farming, nutrition, and global awareness vocabulary while they practice spelling, scanning, and focusing skills. This fun activity provides a light-hearted memorable spin around a serious subject - it is important to start young people thinking about the fact that food is the centerpiece that connects us all. 🍽️

Objectives:

Enrich food-related and nutrition vocabulary 🥦

Facilitate conversations about healthy eating habits, and global food-related issues 🌍

Develop their spelling and literacy skills ✏️

Have fun, no-prep classroom activity!

Event Sequence / Steps:

1️⃣ Pass out the World Food Day Word Search worksheet.

2️⃣ Students will scan-explore, circle, and highlight words.

3️⃣ Review food-related terms together.

4️⃣ Discuss food - where it is grown, shared, and celebrated throughout the world.

5️⃣ Review worksheet with answer key included ✅

Grades or Age:

2nd–5th grade age level 🎓

Way to Incorporate:

Could be used for morning work, early finishers, literacy center, social studies, science lessons, or substitute plans 🧑‍🏫✨

Answer Keys:

✅ Yes! There is an answer key for teachers.

How You Can Use It + Variations:

Timed Challenge ⏳ - students race to finish the puzzle.

Partner Puzzle 🤝 - students work together in pairs as collaboration!

Vocabulary Extension ✏️ - students will make sentences using the food words.

Healthy Choices Activity 🥕 - students will list their favorite healthy foods.

Standards:

Got us covered - CCSS/ELA vocabulary acquisition and helping students think critically about nutrition and sustainability that connects with life science from NGSS.

File Types & Pages

PDF to download 🖨️

Ink friendly + Color versions

1 puzzle + 1 answer key

Easy to print and share

What I hope to model to encourage you as a teacher:

It brings awareness in a fun way while also helping students learn - This World Food Word Search is a great way to connect food, health, and unity from a global perspective with your students! 🌍🍎