Plate Tectonics Cryptogram Puzzle
- Contributer:
- Parker's Products for the Sciences
- Lesson Category:
- Cryptogram Puzzle
- Grades:
- 7-12
- Answer Key:
- Yes
- Pages:
- 2
- Product File:
Description
Welcome! This listing features a one-of-a-kind cryptogram puzzle about plate tectonics for earth science. A cryptogram is a type of puzzle with an encrypted text. In this cryptogram, students will decipher a number code to reveal the letters to form the summary statement text about plate tectonics. The header on both of the student pages has a horizontal letter-number assignment table. Students start out the activity knowing the number assignments for six letters.
The entire message appears as a series of blank lines grouped into what will become words. There are numbers located under approximately fifty percent of the letter lines, some of which students start out knowing and most others they don’t. As students fill in the words of the puzzle with the help of a word bank table on the bottom of the second page, they will discover the number assignments for additional letters. Students can keep track of their number-letter assignment findings on the tables at the top of each page.
This document will become editable upon conversion to Microsoft Word using an Adobe Acrobat Reader DC program. I provided a two-page answer key. I use this lesson in my seventh grade earth science class, but it could also be used as a reinforcement activity in a high school earth science course. It takes my seventh grade students approximately 40 minutes to complete the puzzle.
This activity complements the other activities about plate tectonics I have published.
I appreciate your interest. I also offer these fun additional earth science-themed cryptogram puzzles.
1 Review
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Plate Tectonics Cryptogram Puzzle
Excellent puzzle activity. At first the kids are stumped, and then little by little they figure out the strategies. Only 4 stars because the word bank was missing one of the words. Also, font was VERY tiny- hard to reproduce cleanly. Other than that, AWESOME!
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