Science Word Building

This science word building set is a making words type of activity for your science classroom.

Use this scrambled words activity to help students build phonics and problem solving skills.

This is another free resource for teachers and homeschool families from www.freewordwork.com.

Science Word Building

This activity is designed to help students develop phonics and problem solving skills.

Students will use the provided letter tiles to form as many words as they can. It is a type of making words or scrambled words activity.

Words created must be spelled correctly. I also tell students that they cannot use proper nouns.

This activity provides good phonics practice. The more often students complete a scrambled word set, the quicker they are able to begin their work by finding letters pairs and trios that are often found together.

Help students begin to see these patterns by sharing and writing words together when the time is finished.

I like to use this activity as a time filler and a way to introduce new words in science class.

How to create your activity

Begin by printing the letter pages on cardstock. I like to print each set of letters I will use on different colors of paper. This makes it easier when letters accidentally get mixed up.

After printing on cardstock, laminate the pages and cut them apart.

I like to make multiple sets of the same letters so that all groups in the class have the same letters.

Then, each group will use their letter tiles to form as many words as they can. Depending on the age and ability of the groups I am working with, I adjust the scoring. For my sixth grade students, they only get points for words that are five letters or more. Second and third grade students might earn points for three and four letter words.

Give students 5 -10 minutes to create as many words as they can. I have them make their list on a piece of lined paper. I have also included recording pages for you to use if you would like.

When time is up, collect the pages and begin totaling the points. The group with the most points is the winner.

Science words included:

• hypothesize
• experiment
• investigate
• variables
• observation
• researcher
• microscope
• scientific

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As always, this is a free resource for teachers and homeschool families. You may print and use for your classroom and home. You may not sell or modify and sell in any way.