Moon Landing Word Search

Year 1 HistoryThe Moon Landing2 pages

About this worksheet

Eight Moon landing words are hidden in a 10 by 10 letter grid on this Year 1 history sheet: MOON, ROCKET, APOLLO, NEIL, BUZZ, SPACE, FLAG and EARTH. Each word runs left to right or straight down. There are no diagonal or backwards words, so children who are still tracking a line of letters can finish it without help. The word list sits in blue boxes above the grid. Page 2 is the answer key, which gives the start and end square of each word as a row and column pair. The sheet suits a KS1 Moon landing topic taught to the England National Curriculum.

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Moon Landing Word Search: The Moon Landing - page 1

Moon Landing Word Search: The Moon Landing - page 2

Curriculum objectives covered

Lives of significant individuals

“The lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements, some should be used to compare aspects of life in different periods [for example, Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria, Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong, William Caxton and Tim Berners-Lee, Pieter Bruegel the Elder and LS Lowry, Rosa Parks and Emily Davison, Mary Seacole and/or Florence Nightingale and Edith Cavell]”

Partial. NEIL and BUZZ are two of the eight words, so the search gives a hook for talking about Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. The sheet itself has no facts about their lives.

Reading: comprehension (Year 1 English)

“Discussing word meanings, linking new meanings to those already known”

Words such as APOLLO, ROCKET and FLAG need a short explanation before pupils search. The sheet gives no definitions, so the talk comes from you.

What's inside this worksheet

The Moon Landing word search

Pupils find eight words in a 10 by 10 grid. Four run across, such as APOLLO and EARTH, and four run down, such as ROCKET and SPACE.

Answer key

Each word with its start and end square, for example ROCKET from row 3, column 8 down to row 8, column 8.

How teachers use it

After the story

Read a Moon landing picture book first, then hand this out. Pupils tick each word in the blue boxes as they hear it in the story.

Name the astronauts

When a pupil finds NEIL or BUZZ, ask who that person was. It turns a letter hunt into a quick history question.

Early finishers

Pupils who finish quickly can write a sentence using two of the words, such as FLAG and MOON.

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