Woodwork Teacher Resources - Sawmills - Milling Timber and Lumber

Woodwork – Sawmills and Milling Timber – Crosswords

33 no-prep Crossword Puzzles for Woodwork – Milling Lumber.

Woodwork Teacher Resources - Sawmills - Milling Timber and Lumber

The Woodwork – Milling Lumber and Sawmills printables and worksheets are focused on how we turn a fallen tree into the lumber we can buy and use for projects, building, and construction. Ideas covered are sawmills and equipment used, different type of cuts for converting lumber, and some of the common terms used to describe the finished lumber and products.

Suits Woodworking, Sawmilling, Lumber studies, Timber, Millwork, Forestry and Natural Resources, Wood Shop, Building and Construction, Woodland Ecosystems, Architecture Design, VET, Vocational Ed, Industrial Technology, Trades, Carpentry, Cabinetry, Life Skills, IT Timber, CTE, and other related subjects.

Suggested for Years 6-10+ / ages 11-16.

See Keywords (below) or try the Milling Lumber – Free Sample Pack.


Crossword Puzzles are a fun, quick, formative assessment tool, to help monitor progress of what the student has learnt and can recall from the topic content and glossary terms and definitions. (Bloom: Knowledge, Recall).

Opportunity for individual, group work, and collaborative learning. Puzzle variety for a diverse range of students and knowledge depth.

Crosswords are also a terrific “Do Now” activity at the start of a lesson, great time fillers at the end for early finishers, or perfect for emergency substitute teacher lessons.

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Milling Lumber and Sawmills – Crossword Puzzle features:

  • Zippo Prep Printables >> Print and go!
  • Printer friendly – B&W or Color – Low ink use.
  • 25+ researched keyword terms and clues for each topic.
  • Multi versions of puzzles: class variety, individual work, reduce cheating.
  • Varying levels of challenges, difficulty, test depth of knowledge.
  • Solutions provided for all puzzles.
  • More Crossword Puzzles from RBS.
  • Zip download includes resources in PDF format.

Milling Lumber Crossword Puzzle types:

  • Standard Crossword Puzzles – No help. ^
  • Standard Crossword Puzzles – First Letter help. ^
  • Anagram Crossword Puzzles. ^
  • Clueless Crosswords – Solve the Coded Message.
  • Communicative Crossword Puzzles. (1×1 or Group Work)
  • Mystery Crossword Puzzles. ^
  • ^ featuring versions with and without Wordlists.

Milling Lumber Keyword Terms include:

  • Dimensional Lumber
  • Dressed Lumber
  • Portable Saw Mill
  • Cant
  • Clear Pine
  • Sustainable Lumber
  • Lumber
  • Quarter Sawn
  • Rip Sawing
  • Live Sawing
  • and 15 more…

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