How to Find Word Puzzles for 4th Grade History Students
Many fourth grade teachers use word puzzles to review key history facts with students. From past presidents to Civil War vocabulary, teachers give students crossword puzzles, scrambled words, search-a-word puzzles and more. Teachers use many different methods from creating their own puzzles to finding free online resources and printable worksheets to buying puzzle books from teachers' stores.
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Things You'll Need
- Computer
- Internet Connection
- Printer
- Puzzle books (optional)
- Word processing program
Instructions
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Online Puzzles
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Go to websites such as Apples4TheTeacher.com or TLSBooks.com to find free history word puzzles at a fourth grade level (see References). On both sites, you can search for different grade levels, themes or worksheets to provide extra student practice for your history unit. You can print these off and copy them for students.
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Give your students time to do social studies word puzzles online at websites such as KidCrosswords.com, which has puzzles on the Civil War and United States capitals (see Resources). Fourth graders can choose to do these crosswords online, or you can print them off for them to do with a pencil.
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Use a free puzzle maker site such as Discovery Education's Puzzlemaker (see References). On this site, you can create your own fourth grade history word puzzles by following the simple directions and having your own word list. You can make word search, criss-cross, letter tiles, cryptograms and more--all for free!
Word Processing and Books
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Create a word list that you want to use for the history word puzzle you plan to create. This word list should have important vocabulary from your unit. To make a word puzzle easier, you can give students the master list. To make it more difficult, they can use their textbooks or notes to find possible words that might be in the word puzzle. You have more control over the difficulty and purpose of the word puzzles when you make them yourself.
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Use a word processing program to make your own fourth grade history word puzzles. The easiest types to do on a word processing program are search-a-word, unscramble the word and cryptogram. For example, to make an unscramble word puzzle on Microsoft Word, you would title the puzzle and then number each word and type the letters out of order. Then create a blank for students write each word correctly after they unscramble it.
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Use a reproducible book full of history word puzzles for fourth graders, such as "Presidential Word Search Puzzles" by John Chaneski (see Resources). This particular book has many puzzles about United States history because it starts with George Washington and continues with a puzzle about Barack Obama. You may also find some puzzle books that will contain different subjects, including math, reading and social studies. You can purchase fourth grade word puzzle books online or at teachers' stores.
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