Fifty US States: Bending-Path Word Search

Find all fifty US state names using paths that can turn at right angles. A completed sheet shows the answers.
Year groups
Year 6 (Key Stage 2)
Pages
2
File type
PDF

Updated Jan 26, 2025

Subject
Geography, Social Studies
Resource types
Word Searches, Activities

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About this resource

In this fun 50 United States Word Search, students will try and find the states in this word search. This is not your typical word search, however! The words can bend, twist, go up and down, horizontal, etc. As a school counselor, I enjoy giving my students tools to help them learn vocabulary for the different subjects that they are learning about. This helps them become familiar with the words and practice for a test. This word search is best suited for upper primary students (4th or 5th), lower secondary (6th, 7th, 8th) and secondary school students in 9th, 10, 11th, and 12th. Word searches are great for early finishers as well as bell ringers, breaks, study tools, etc.

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In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Recognise and spell U.S. state names
  • Follow non-diagonal word paths that may turn
  • Apply puzzle constraints systematically

Teaching tips

  • Review the turning rule with a short invented example before starting.
  • Cross off each state name only after tracing its full path.

Skills covered

  • Letter-path tracking — follow state-name spellings through permitted right-angle turns.

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Core concepts

Core concepts

  • Fifty states
  • Word search
  • Right-angle paths

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