Grade 3 Intro – Blast Off Into Vocabulary!
This 15 × 15 printable puzzle hides eighteen cosmic words—from ROCKET to SATELLITE. Students expand science vocabulary while building scanning stamina.
- 🚀 STEM-friendly space terms
- 🖨️ Instant PDF answer key
- 🔎 15×15 grid = perfect Grade 3 challenge
Contents
Word List
- ROCKET
- PLANET
- STARS
- MOON
- COMET
- GALAXY
- ORBIT
- ASTEROID
- METEOR
- ECLIPSE
- ASTRONAUT
- SPACE
- SUN
- EARTH
- SHUTTLE
- UNIVERSE
- ROCKETSHIP
- SATELLITE
How to Play – 3 Easy Steps
- Print or display the grid.
- Learners find all 18 space words—left-to-right or top-to-bottom.
- Click Show Answers or check page 2 of the PDF to review together.
Grade 3 – How to Use in Class
- Predict which words describe objects vs events in space.
- Give seven minutes for pairs to solve; fast finishers sketch their favourite planet.
- Reveal answers and discuss one new space fact per word.
Puzzle Grid
Teaching Tip: Have students group words by size—from METEOR to GALAXY—to visualise astronomical scale.
