Social Studies Word Search
This social studies word search covers the whole subject in forty words: history, geography, civics and economics, with the ideas each one teaches, from citizen and democracy to goods and services, migration and the timeline.
The name is about a century old. In 1916 a committee of the National Education Association published a report called The Social Studies in Secondary Education, which grouped history, geography, government and economics under one heading for American high schools. Teachers formed the National Council for the Social Studies in 1921, and the subject has kept the name since.
Elementary lessons often follow a plan called expanding horizons, worked out by the educator Paul Hanna in the middle of the last century. Each grade widens the circle: the child and the family in the early grades, then the neighborhood and the community, then the state in fourth grade, the nation in fifth and the wider world after that. That is why so many fourth graders spend a year on their own state's history.
Free Social Studies Word Search Online Game
Play the Social Studies word search in your browser, on your own or head to head against a friend in real time. Nothing to install and no account needed – send someone the link and you are both looking at the same grid.
Social Studies Word Search Printable Puzzles
Three sheets to choose from, free to print or download as a PDF. Pick a difficulty below, or open the printable Social Studies word search page to see all three together, generate a fresh grid, and check the full word list.
Hard
15x15 grid, up to 23 hidden words
Print or Download pdfMedium
12x12 grid, up to 15 hidden words
Print or Download pdfEasy
10x10 grid, 5 words across and down
Print or Download pdf
Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Social Studies has.
Depends on difficulty level you select in the game amount of words hidden in the puzzle will be different.
In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
Every time you start a new game - our word search generator will pick random words to build the puzzle.
- Ancestor
- Border
- Capital
- Citizen
- Civics
- Climate
- Colony
- Community
- Constitution
- Consumer
- Continent
- Culture
- Democracy
- Economics
- Election
- Equator
- Explorer
- Geography
- Globe
- Goods
- Government
- History
- Industry
- Landform
- Law
- Mayor
- Migration
- Nation
- Population
- Producer
- Region
- Resources
- Rights
- Services
- Settlement
- Taxes
- Timeline
- Trade
- Tradition
- Vote