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Middle school other (social studies) centers
Life Skills Unit BUNDLE (Special Education & Autism Resource)
Get one unit for FREE when you buy the bundle!! This is a bundle of 7 different life skills units designed to help your students have a greater understanding of life skills and the vocabulary associated with it. This functional life skills curriculum is everything you need to teach critical life skills. These thematic units are designed to enhance and further your student's life skills and understanding of their community. Target crucial life skills with these reading, vocabulary and work tasks
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PreK - 12th
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Causes of the Civil War: Analyzing Primary and Secondary Sources
This resource includes 5 work stations that will get your students analyzing pre-civil war primary and secondary documents. It has all you need to analyze the political charts, prints, text, maps, and the presidential election all related to pre-civil war. Also includes graphic organizers, essential questions, and thinking questions for students to analyze/discuss the documents with their peers.
Grades:
4th - 8th
Grocery Store Life Skills Unit for Special Ed - Integrated Reading Comprehension
Make teaching about the grocery store fun with these engaging, hands-on, and visually supported activities! This set includes resources to help you integrate reading, writing, and vocabulary into your life skills lessons. Materials are already leveled and include visual supports to help you easily differentiate and meet the needs of your students without extra work.***HUGE savings by buying the Life Skills Unit BUNDLE***WHO IS IT FOR?Students who need hands-on practiceClassrooms with students on
Grades:
PreK - 12th
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Also included in: Life Skills Unit BUNDLE (Special Education & Autism Resource)
Great Wall of China Virtual Field Trip Ancient History
Take a trip to the Great Wall of China! (If you already have the Growing Field Trip Bundle, redownload that to access this trip!!)Virtual Field Trips are an engaging activity, no matter the format of instruction, your students will be entertained! Use them as a preview to any science unit OR have the class work towards the reward of 'Field Trip Friday'!NO PREP! Just 'share your screen' and present the slides. ☺Trip is aimed at a 3rd grade level but works well for K - 5.W H A T ' S I N C L U D E
Grades:
1st - 6th
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NGSS:
3-LS4-3
Also included in: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION! Every product in my TPT store - growing bundle!
Five Themes of Geography Centers Investigation Activity
Investigate the Five Themes of Geography with this interactive centers activity. Each center invites students to further investigate one of the themes (Location, Place, Movement, Regions, Human-Environment Interaction) through mapping, reading, and skills practice. All materials (except atlases) are provided (print on card stock and laminate for repeated use!). Resources include recent articles on various world events, maps, charts and other content-filled sources and require students to use
Grades:
6th - 10th, Higher Education
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Birth of American Culture Unit: 1950s & 1960s Suburbia, Baby Boomers, GI Bill!
Birth of American Culture Unit: 1950s & 1960s Suburbia, Baby Boomers, GI Bill, Rock & Roll, and MORE!This Birth of American Culture Unit Bundle is included in the much larger American History Super Unit, Version 5/6, located here:This unit bundle includes the following TEN resources:✔ 1.) Homefront During WW2: Project for Women at Work, Rationing, Internment, Comics!✔ 2.) Baby Boomers: The Return from World War 2 and the Creation of the Baby Boom!✔ 3.) The G.I. Bill and the Post-War Sold
Grades:
5th - 10th
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No Prep Social Studies Centers GROWING Bundle
*** SAVE 25% BY PURCHASING THIS BUNDLE! ***THIS IS A GROWING BUNDLE WITH NEW CENTERS ADDED EACH WEEK (THAT MEANS THE PRICE WILL ONLY GO UP!)My line of No Prep Social Studies Centers are made specifically to make your life as easy as possible. Get your students engaged with interactive and collaborative group activities!This pack contains the following 7 center packs:No Prep Social Studies Centers: Latitude & LongitudeNo Prep Social Studies Centers: 5 Themes of GeographyNo Prep Social Studies
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Jamestown Colony Help-Wanted Advertisement Activity
With this activity students will use their knowledge of the Jamestown colony to create a persuasive help-wanted ad. They should consider what jobs may have been underrepresented in the young colony, and create an advertisement that persuades new settlers from England that can perform those jobs.Purchase includes a detailed project information sheet, Jamestown's first jobs list, student planning sheet, and grading rubric.Please follow me to be informed of product updates, revisions, and new prod
Grades:
4th - 9th
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The Five Themes of Geography: Postcard Activities | Practice Pages | Worksheets
What a fun way to practice identifying the Five Themes of Geography: Movement; Region; Human Environment Interaction; Location; Place!Theses pages are designed so that they will work in spiral interactive notebooks, composition books, three hole binders, or as individual activity pages if you are not using interactive notebooks in your classroom. This activity includes six fun postcards from different places in the world with evidence of the five themes of geography in the text. Students read th
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Destination New Zealand - A NZ School Journal Project. Years 4-8
31 towns or cities, 18 activities, 66 NZ School Journal stories/articles, weeks of fun and learning. Destination New Zealand is an engaging and motivating reading project where students travel around New Zealand learning about different towns, cities, animals, people and cultures. They get to utilise the many NZ School Journals that school have access to. 18 activities, 31 towns or cities and 66 Journal stories or articles.At each place they will be able to choose a reading task that will earn
Grades:
4th - 8th
Also included in: Destination Series Bundle - NZ School Journal Projects
My Country! United States Symbols and Monuments Book Posters
I love teaching my students the United States symbols and monuments! I created this product to not only make learning this unit fun, but to also have materials that would help them retain what they are learning.
Included in this product are 10 symbol/monument posters. Great for classroom decoration and for learning and reinforcing learning each one. There are 20 cards with symbol/monument pictures and names. Can be used for a Social Studies center, pocket chart activity, or to play memory.
Grades:
2nd - 6th
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Titanic Task Cards: Context Clues (Common Core & TEK Aligned)
Build your students' vocabulary skills with these 28 Titanic Themed Context Clues Task Cards. Task Cards are perfect for partner work, center/station work, SCOOT game, Quiz Quiz Trade, Inside Outside Circle, or whole group activity.Students read a sentence with an underlined word and then choose the correct meaning (3 choices are given), using the context clues. Your students will enjoy reading facts and learning more about the Titanic and that tragic night.I like to print these on card-stock, c
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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MLK Day Bundle: 3 Resources for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!
In this product bundle, you receive 3 outstanding resources to celebrate and honor Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. 1.) A history of the MLK holiday resource is used to highlight the life and achievements of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This resource includes engaging class text, a timeline assignment, a crossword review activity, and a student newspaper project.2.) A primary source activity is included in this bundle to have students understand the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In this reso
Grades:
5th - 9th
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Reading Decoding & Social Studies Integrated 5E Lesson Plan
This is a Reading Decoding lesson plan that uses word origins, and root words to decode vocabulary in Social Studies. The lesson plan follows the 5E Lesson Plan model. The 5 Es are Engagement, Exploration, Explanation, Elaboration, and Evaluation. The plan uses poetry to enforce vocabulary, however, any reading passage can apply to this lesson plan. The lesson plan applies to Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) and the Common Core Standards. The lesson is designed for the average student
Grades:
2nd - 12th
Also included in: Reading 5E Lesson Plan BUNDLE
Early North American Settlements and Colonization-1565-1630-Illustrated Timeline
This project allows students to summarize and illustrate events that are considered to be milestones in the early settlement and colonization of North America, in the format of a large illustrated timeline. The events include Spanish, Dutch, English, and French colonies.The timeline is large, and uses five sheets of 8.5x11 paper. There is also a full page option included in this timeline, which uses ten sheets of 8.5x11 paper.There is a sample answer key, as well as a grading rubric included.Th
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4th - 8th
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Destination World - A NZ School Journal Project. Years 5-8
28 countries, 18 activities, 63 NZ School Journal stories/articles, weeks of fun and learning. DESTINATION WORLD is an engaging and motivating reading project where students travel around the world reading learning about different countries and cultures. They get to utilise the many NZ School Journals that school have access to.At each country they will be able to choose an engaging reading task that will earn them departure tax (NZ Money). The better they do the task the more money you can giv
Grades:
4th - 8th
Also included in: Destination Series Bundle - NZ School Journal Projects
13 Colonies Artifact Museum Tour Cards
History is FUN when you add a little FLAIR to your classroom. That includes the use of historical “artifacts”. Students can use their imagination (even our older ones) to ”SEE” and “FEEL” history through museum tours. These 31 description cards are a starting point in allowing students to examine, analyze, and compare the Political, Economic, Religious, and Social Factors of the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies. **Combine this activity with the colonial primary source bundle for your m
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7th - 10th
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Boston Tea Party Point of View Comic Strip Project
In this project, students will use their knowledge of the Boston Tea Party to create a comic strip that illustrates the events of that night from a specific point of view. Students must have thorough understanding of the different viewpoints surrounding the Boston Tea Party, and the events that led up to it. This activity will have them objectively analyze how one event could seem so different depending on the viewpoint of the person.Purchase includes detailed project information sheet, studen
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5th - 12th
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Atlas Scavenger Hunt / Map Skills for Grades 5-11
Do your students need to practice map skills? This atlas scavenger hunt will assist your students improve their map skills and will free some time for you as this is an independent activity and each student can learn at their own pace. You may have students working in pairs or individually to complete the task. Students will use 8 sections of the atlas to find answers. There is variety of questions type, such as finding a location of a landform, explaining vocabulary, analyzing a graph or a map,
Grades:
5th - 11th
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Printable Canadian Money
This printable includes Canadian currency denominations from $5.00 to $100.00. These are the most recent "Frontier Series" bank notes copied from the Bank of Canada website. The word "specimen" is printed lightly across the bill, but they are as close to realistic bills as you can get. The are smaller than actual bills in order to fit more on a page. Although they're in full color, you can save ink by printing them in black and white on pastel coloured paper.I use these not only during my financ
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Grades:
1st - 8th
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CSI Boston Massacre!
Dive into the Boston Massacre with this immersive and comprehensive analysis activity package. **Engage with Historical Sources**Your students will explore six diverse sources, including eyewitness accounts, compelling images, newspaper articles, personal testimonies, maps, and official documents. These sources will challenge them to analyze, identify biases, and determine whether the events of the Boston Massacre were murder or an act of self-defense.**Complete Educational Components**Included
Grades:
5th - 12th
Engaging New England Colonies Inquiry with Artifacts!
Step back in time and immerse your students in the rich history of the New England Colonies with this comprehensive and engaging inquiry-based unit. Whether you're looking for a one-day immersive experience or prefer to delve deeper over two days, this resource has everything you need to make learning about colonial New England come to life!**Product Features:**1. **Bellwork:** Kickstart your lesson with thought-provoking bellwork activities that pique students' curiosity and set the stage for t
Grades:
5th - 12th
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September 11th and The War on Terror Activity
Learn about the events of September 11th, 2001 and the War on Terror. In this activity, students will visit a museum exhibit with images and primary source quotes on the Events of 9/11, The War on Terror and Remembrance. Next they will learn about key vocabulary terms with Word Wall images and a vocabulary activity. Your students will then read two-pages of informational text and ask each other discussion questions. The activity will conclude with a poem they will write. This activity includes:-
Grades:
5th - 7th
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Also included in: GEOGRAPHY ACTIVITIES BUNDLE
YEAR BUNDLE! US History Activity Choice Boards Grades 4, 5, 6, 7 Social Studies
This year-long bundle of 10 Social Studies Choice Board Activity Packets is your all-in-one resource to gamify social studies and/or US history for the entire year. These fun menus of learning activities are designed with differentiation in mind, like encouraging student choice and being totally student paced. Essentially, each of these choice boards provide students with 12 unique learning activities to take a deeper dive into various periods of growth in United States history, from around 1400
Grades:
4th - 7th
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