Hard space word search
The Southern Cross, Mount John and the launch site at Māhia: twenty-eight space words with a Kiwi view of the sky. They run forwards, backwards and diagonally in an eighteen by eighteen grid.
- Astronaut
- Aurora
- Black hole
- Comet
- Dark sky reserve
- Earth
- Galaxy
- Jupiter
- Māhia
- Mars
- Matariki
- Mercury
- Meteor
- Milky Way
- Moon
- Mount John
- Nebula
- Neptune
- Orbit
- Planet
- Rocket
- Satellite
- Saturn
- Southern Cross
- Sun
- Telescope
- Uranus
- Venus
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Name
| C | N | E | E | F | D | M | I | L | K | Y | W | A | Y | A | H | A | O |
| U | P | S | S | R | A | T | P | T | M | D | D | N | L | C | S | U | V |
| I | S | B | A | Y | H | U | I | E | M | W | A | R | O | C | K | E | T |
| M | C | R | T | T | S | T | R | E | L | G | R | X | F | O | N | G | R |
| G | T | E | U | E | E | C | R | O | E | A | K | L | D | U | M | W | B |
| I | R | T | R | S | U | L | U | A | R | L | S | F | S | E | T | T | D |
| K | T | I | N | R | T | D | L | A | E | A | K | N | I | R | V | E | N |
| I | W | P | Y | A | E | T | I | I | V | X | Y | X | E | O | U | E | N |
| R | E | U | E | A | N | H | E | B | T | Y | R | C | N | E | W | O | D |
| A | A | J | U | S | A | T | L | T | H | E | E | B | U | T | N | H | A |
| T | T | R | I | M | L | U | R | A | N | U | S | L | T | E | O | A | S |
| A | N | S | E | Y | P | U | U | O | O | T | E | A | P | M | L | E | T |
| M | O | U | N | T | J | O | H | N | I | I | R | C | E | O | V | U | R |
| L | H | N | T | S | R | L | R | E | P | B | V | K | N | C | S | S | O |
| H | M | A | R | S | S | O | R | C | N | R | E | H | T | U | O | S | N |
| E | P | O | C | S | E | L | E | T | A | O | U | O | B | W | H | H | A |
| D | I | T | G | L | E | E | N | R | U | R | E | L | O | O | R | M | U |
| W | D | O | Y | T | G | P | E | A | L | U | B | E | N | N | T | V | T |
Find these words
- Astronaut
- Aurora
- Black hole
- Comet
- Dark sky reserve
- Earth
- Galaxy
- Jupiter
- Māhia
- Mars
- Matariki
- Mercury
- Meteor
- Milky Way
- Moon
- Mount John
- Nebula
- Neptune
- Orbit
- Planet
- Rocket
- Satellite
- Saturn
- Southern Cross
- Sun
- Telescope
- Uranus
- Venus
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About this word search
Rocket Lab launches rockets from its own launch site on the Māhia Peninsula, on the east coast of the North Island, and the University of Canterbury's Mount John Observatory looks out over Takapō. Add some of the darkest skies on Earth and New Zealand is a real space country.
The grid is eighteen by eighteen, with words in all eight directions, backwards and diagonal. Dark sky reserve is the longest with fourteen letters, then Southern Cross with thirteen. Sun is the shortest at three, and moon and Mars have four. Uranus and Saturn share letters, so check before you circle. Māhia becomes MAHIA in the grid. The J of Jupiter and Mount John and the Y in Mercury, galaxy and Milky Way help you get started.
Put the planets on the sheet in order from the Sun, then find out which ones you can see with the naked eye from your own backyard.
Ways to use this word search
In the classroom
Print it as a task for early finishers, or to open a lesson on this topic. With the QR code on the sheet, students check their own answers.
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Print the sheet twice and race each other. Whoever finds all the words first wins. Or play it online and see who is fastest.
Try it in Spanish too
The same theme also exists in Spanish, French, German and Italian, each with its own word list in that language. Handy if you are learning a language: you already know the topic, now just the words.
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