Collection · 18 puzzles

Science Word Searches

Science puzzles for curious minds and science classes: a general science list, the scientific method, lab equipment and lab safety, famous scientists and their inventions, STEM, engineering and simple machines, forensic science and the five senses, and Earth Day in April. A few puzzles from the narrower science collections join them, with the space puzzle as the way into the night sky.

The vocabulary is where a word search earns its place in a science lesson. Finding PALEONTOLOGY or ANEMOMETER letter by letter makes a student look at how the word is spelled, which is the part they tend to get wrong on a test. The facts behind the words are worth a detour too: a day on Venus lasts longer than its year, because the planet turns so slowly that it goes round the Sun before it finishes one spin.