STEM Word Search
This STEM word search mixes the four subjects in the name, science, technology, engineering and math, with the things students do in them: coding, robotics, building a prototype, testing a hypothesis and wiring a circuit.
The four letters were first put together at the National Science Foundation in the 1990s, in a different order, as SMET. Around 2001 Judith Ramaley, then an NSF director, rearranged them into STEM, partly because it sounded better and partly because a stem is what a plant grows from. Some schools now add an A for the arts and write STEAM.
American schools had pushed the same subjects once before. When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in October 1957, the United States feared it was falling behind, and in 1958 Congress passed the National Defense Education Act, which paid for science labs, math classes and college loans. The same year it set up NASA. Much of the space program of the 1960s was built by engineers who had gone to college on that money.
Free STEM Word Search Online Game
Play the STEM 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.
STEM 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 STEM 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 STEM 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.
- Algebra
- Algorithm
- Battery
- Blueprint
- Bridge
- Build
- Calculator
- Circuit
- Coding
- Creativity
- Curiosity
- Data
- Design
- Drone
- Engineering
- Experiment
- Gears
- Geometry
- Graph
- Hypothesis
- Innovation
- Invent
- Iterate
- Laptop
- Launch
- Logic
- Math
- Measure
- Microchip
- Model
- Physics
- Problem Solving
- Prototype
- Robotics
- Rocket
- Science
- Sensor
- Teamwork
- Technology
- Telescope