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Kindergarten social studies unit plans for Microsoft Word
The World Where I Live...
This is a jam-packed, 40 page unit full of multi-sensory and multi-grade-level activities all centering on the relationships between the following concepts: city/town/village, county, state, country, continent, and community helpers. The following mathematical concepts are also explored: range, median, mode, and average (mathematical mean).
The following activities are included in this unit: Key vocabulary exercise, coloring Venn diagram activity, "Greater Than, Less Than" activity page, "My
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K - 8th
HASS History/Geography Term Planner - Pre Primary Foundation Year
Whole term planning template for Pre Primary (WA) or Foundation year of schooling. Aligned with the Australian Curriculum and Western Australian Curriculum. Completely editable document able to be used in other year levels - just insert your Curriculum Outcomes!Includes a check box for each term that can be highlighted as the topic is covered to provide a year overview.Enjoy and happy teaching!Nyssa Smith@learn.play.laugh
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in:Â Pre Primary/ Foundation Year Planning Template Bundle
American Symbols Printable Book
This printable book can be used during your unit on American Symbols. The students will learn about 5 important American Symbols, and will get to fill out the book to show what they have learned. Each symbol studied includes a Marzano Learning Strategy.
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PreK - 5th
Mystery Island Project Instructions - Landforms
Imagine you discovered a new island no one ever explored before. It does not exist on any map! You can name this island whatever you want and make its first official map or model.
Use These set of Instructions for a Project Assignment with your LANDFORM Unit. I used this for my second grade class. It requires them to create an island that they discovered. They must name it according to its shape. They can get very creative with this. I have made an example of a final project: "Shark Island" in
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K - 5th
Famous Virginians Quick Checks & Unit Assessment (SOL 1.3)
This product includes:
*6 Quick Checks:
-Arthur R. Ashe, Jr. (5 questions)
-Christopher Newport (5 questions)
-Maggie Walker (5 questions)
-Jamestown (4 questions)
-George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Jamestown, Pocahontas, & Chief Powhattan (4 questions)
-Maggie Walker, Arthur R. Ashe, Jr., & Christopher Newport (5 questions)
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*1 Famous Virginians Unit Assessment (14 questions)
**ALL ASSESSMENTS INCLUDE AN ANSWER KEY**
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K - 2nd
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Engaging Reading Faces Lesson Plan for Preschool and Kindergarten.
Explore emotions through the "Reading Faces" lesson plan designed for preschool and kindergarten. This interactive session helps students identify various feelings by reading facial expressions. Utilizing the book "Feelings" by Aliki, this lesson incorporates creative activities with paper, crayons, and craft materials, fostering a fun and educational atmosphere. Download the editable Word format for easy customization.
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PreK - K
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President's Day KINDERGARTEN Unit Lesson Plan
This Presidents Day Unit Plan will allow you to have a week full of activities to cover social studies/history, English Language Arts, reading, and art in 3 complete lessons and a final assessment.This unit lesson plan covers the questions:What is a President in the United States and what do they do?What is Presidents Day?Who was George Washington?Who was Abraham Lincoln?What would I do if I were President of the United States?SWBAT:Students will be able to identify at least 3 jobs that the Pres
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K
Expeditionary Learning Common Core Lesson Planning Template
This, after much revision, is a comprehensive lesson plan template designed specifically for Expeditionary Learning modules that takes into account requirements for teacher lessons, units and observations. However, it can be used for other lessons, subjects as well. Math, Science and Social Studies will work...even Art. Select sections you don't need and cut or just leave them blank. Common Core standards can be copied here: http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards
Expeditionary Learnin
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PreK - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Creating a Welcome Wreath
The photo provided is from Vector Stock.com. This lesson is a way of unifying the students together. Some may not know anyone, so this may bring them together. Each morning, they will look for their hands on the classroom door.
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PreK - K
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UDL Kindergarten Unit Plan: Past, Present, and Future (all three days)
This contains all three days of a UDL unit plan for Kindergarten covering the past, present, and future. These lessons can be modified into a single day lesson.This lesson does fall under these Social Studies Common Core Standards (listed from MI, but reciprocal if your state/ school uses CC): MDE:K.H2.0.1: Distinguish among the past, present, and futureMDE:K.H2.0.2: Create a timeline using events from their own livesMDE:K.H2.0.3: Describe ways people learn about the pastThis bundle contains all
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K
People of Inspiration (POI): PERSEVERANCE Unit Cross-Curricular Plan (Biography)
People of Inspiration (POI): PERSEVERANCE Unit Cross-Curricular Plan (Biography)This POI focuses on learning about the concept of PERSEVERANCE through the lens of Misty Copeland, the first African American Prima Ballerina in the American Ballet Theatre Company. Questions children will explore include: What does perseverance look like for me? What do I need to do to persevere when things get hard? How does perseverance tie into the struggle for gender and race equality?Overall Summary of The Peop
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PreK - 2nd
Also included in:Â "Perseverance" People of Inspiration Unit Bundle
My 7 Continents Book with pictures
7 continents book for students to make throughout the 6 weeks Common Core Unit for Kindergarten. I have added pictures of places on each continent to add to the book as the lessons are taught. I also added Disney movies that setting was in each continent.
I used the pictures to add to my huge map and placed them on the correct continent as the lessons were taught. This was really a fun unit. The students loved seeing the movies that went along with the continent. I would youtube a clip of
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PreK - 1st
My Book of Maps
This is a template for you to use in your map unit. It includes pages for the student, bedroom, neighborhood, classroom, town, county, state, country, continent, planet, and solar system. It gives sentences for each category and the students just have to fill in the blanks with their information to finish the sentences. Then print the different items and put in the book next to these pages. When done they can flip through their books and read it while seeing a picture of these places. I have the
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K - 2nd
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Wisconsin Habitats Unit
Overarching Understandings:
• Learning to sort into categories based on attributes.
• Know that illustration can tell a story.
• Expressing knowledge gained from a story
• Changes constantly occur that need to be adapted too.
Topical Understandings:
• Misunderstanding – Animals can live wherever they are put.
• Physical changes occur in the environment.
• Environments determine the behavior animals.
• Different animals have different needs, but some needs are essential.
• Counting the number of
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K - 2nd
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NYCDOE Passport S.S. Grade K Unit Plan Unit 3: Geography/People: The Community
This Grade K Unit Plan includes Essential Questions, CCSS, Vocabulary, Skills, Evaluation, Performance Task, Teaching Points with a Focus Question, Content Understandings, and Learning Experiences for every lesson, Enrichment Activities, Ell's and IEP opportunities, and Multiple Entry Points for Unit 3: Geography, People, and the Environment: The CommunityLessons plans are a work in progress for all lessons to follow shortly. I will post them as they are ready.
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K
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Also included in:Â Passport S.S. Grade K Unit Plan & ALL 12 Lesson Plans Unit 3: The Community
Workers in the community program
A comprehensive and detailed ten week unit of work. In this unit, the students will explore people at work. They will identify their needs and wants and relate these to jobs in the community. The students will categorise different workers and describe their role in the community. The students will create a class graph of jobs their parents do, including unpaid jobs. They will create workers using milk cartons and will paint workers in their workplace. The students will interview some guest speak
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K - 2nd
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I Can Be Anything Community Helpers
Attached are four activities you can do with your students to teach about community helpers and also what they want to be when they grow up. I start off by reading the book I Can Be Anything by Jerry Spinelli. The book is a silly way to introduce the students to how they can be anything they want. After discussing what they want to be and doing the activities it is easy to transition into community helpers. Great for Social Studies, Reading, and group and whole class assessments.
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K - 2nd
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Civil War and Reconstuction
Lesson plan that guides the sources of the civil war and reconstruction (can be modified)
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
NYCDOE Passport S.S. Grade K Unit Plan Unit 2: Self & Others: Cultural Identity
This Grade K Unit Plan includes Essential Questions, CCSS, Vocabulary, Skills, Evaluation, Performance Task, Teaching Points with a Focus Question, Content Understandings, and Learning Experiences for every lesson, Enrichment Activities, Ell's and IEP opportunities, and Multiple Entry Points for: Unit 2: Self and Others: Individual Development and Cultural Identity
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K
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Also included in:Â Passport S.S. Grade K Unit 2:Self and Others Unit Plan & ALL 12 Lesson Plans
NYCDOE Passport to S.S. GRADE K Unit Plan Unit 4: Families, Change, and Time
This GRADE K Unit Plan includes Essential Questions, CCSS, Vocabulary, Skills, Evaluation, Performance Task, Teaching Points with a Focus Question, Content Understandings, and Learning Experiences for every lesson, Enrichment Activities, Ell's and IEP opportunities, and Multiple Entry Points for Unit 4: Families, Change, and Time
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K
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Also included in:Â Passport to S.S. Grade K Unit 4: Families Unit Plan & ALL 10 Lesson Plans
Citizenship Project
Citizenship Project best for Second grade curriculum, but can be modified for 3-4th
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K - 5th
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All About pilgrims book and test
I created this book to help my students with autism learn about the Pilgrims and Wompanoag. This is a quick book with some real pictures and some cartoon pictures that go over the pilgrims, when they landed, how the Wompanoag helped them and then how they celebrated Thanksgiving. It also has a test at the end using Mayer Johnson pictures. You can use this for students not with autism as well.
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PreK - 3rd
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Oh the places you’ll go
This is a short unit for kids to discover about where they live and about other countries. The students also research with tallies and pictographs about travel and holidays.
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K - 4th
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US History Book List
Book list consists of biographies, picture books, historical fiction, games, original sources, history books, series, graphic novels, audio CDs, activity books, literary response workbooks, historical replica artifacts and pretend play toys for grades KG to 11th grade.
Includes BONUS list of classics and novels with an American History theme suitable for junior high and high school.
LINKS to all products included in document for easy search and identification.
Over 20 pages of resources list
Grades:
K - 11th
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