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School Word Search

This school word search hides words like teacher, student, pencil to find. Play it free online or print the PDF with the answer key, a handy school vocabulary activity.

10 words · 11×11 grid · Medium · Answer key included · Free printable PDF

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Tap the first and last letter of a word — or use arrow keys and Enter. Dragging works too.

  • SCISSORS
  • BACKPACK
  • HOMEWORK
  • TEACHER
  • STUDENT
  • LIBRARY
  • PENCIL
  • ERASER
  • CRAYON
  • LESSON
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Did you know?

teacher
In a Sumerian school story, a struggling pupil wins his teacher's praise after the boy's father provides dinner and gifts.
student
Medieval Bologna students organized their university and set its teaching goals, putting pupils in charge of a system usually run by administrators.
pencil
Pencils never held lead; the gray core is graphite, a soft form of carbon mixed with clay and baked hard.
eraser
Before rubber erasers, people rubbed out pencil marks with rolled-up balls of stale bread.
crayon
An American crayon color named flesh became peach in 1962, acknowledging that one pale shade couldn't represent everybody's skin.
lesson
An astronaut taught science from orbit using knitting needles and floating water droplets, turning household objects into lessons made possible by weightlessness.
library
Some medieval libraries chained books to their shelves, letting readers open valuable volumes but preventing them from carrying them away.
scissors
A Chinese pair of scissors is shaped like a crane, giving an everyday cutting tool the silhouette of a long-beaked bird.
backpack
Japanese children's sturdy randoseru backpacks inherited a Dutch military-bag name, bringing a word from soldiers' equipment into the daily trip to school.
homework
The word homework once meant any chore done at home; its school meaning of after-class study dates only to the 1880s.
notebook
A notebook doesn't need new paper: medieval students sometimes practiced on reusable wax tablets, smoothing the surface to erase mistakes.
classroom
Some Danish kindergartens use nature as their classroom all year, taking children outdoors through snow and frost as well as summer sunshine.
blackboard
Oxford preserved two blackboards from Einstein's lectures, but a cleaner accidentally wiped one, erasing famous calculations just like any ordinary classroom notes.
cafeteria
The word cafeteria comes from Spanish and originally meant a coffee shop, before it named the self-service dining hall at school.
principal
Westminster's history tells of a headmaster keeping his hat on before the king, insisting pupils see him as the highest classroom authority.

Trivia

  1. In which country was paper first invented, around 2,000 years ago?

    China.

  2. Pencil cores are not made of lead. What soft gray form of carbon are they actually made of?

    Graphite.

  3. What is the name of the world's oldest working library, in Fez, Morocco?

    Al-Qarawiyyin.

  4. A one-room schoolhouse had pupils of all ages in a single room. How many rooms did it have?

    One.

  5. What handheld two-bladed cutting tool has been used since the ancient world, over 3,000 years ago?

    Scissors.

Trivia · 1 / 5
In which country was paper first invented, around 2,000 years ago?
China.

In their words

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Nelson Mandela

One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.

Malala Yousafzai

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This school word search is a free printable puzzle with 10 hidden words in an 11×11 grid. Find words like SCISSORS, BACKPACK, HOMEWORK hidden across, down, and diagonally. You can play it right here in your browser — tap the first and last letter of a word — or download it as a printable PDF with the full answer key on page two. It's free for personal and classroom use, so teachers can print copies for a whole class with no sign-up and no account. Word searches like this one are a proven way to build vocabulary, spelling, and word-shape recognition, which is why they're a favourite with ESL learners, elementary classrooms, and anyone who likes a quiet puzzle with their coffee.

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Sources: Morocco's Al-Qarawiyyin library to reopen after major restoration (The Arab Weekly) · Two women who built and restored the world's oldest library (Global Citizen) · Was bread once used to erase pencil marks? (Snopes) · Inside Crayola's factory: about 12 million crayons a day (6abc)

Word list, facts & trivia researched and compiled by Sam Letterman — spotted a mistake? Tell us and we’ll fix it.