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Social studies activities for ActiveInspire Flipchart
Landforms Promethean ActivInspire Flipchart Lesson
This flipchart lesson has everything you need to teach landforms to your students. It includes over 50 pages of interactivity, along with three printable pdfs (a landforms booklet, graphic organizer, and quiz) for formative assessment, reinforcement, and extra practice. Included within the flipchart are tons of voting along with graphic organizers, containers, games, and online resources. Make sure to read the page notes included by going to your notes browser. Directions are given on each page
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1st - 6th
Community Helpers Flipchart - Graph, Matchup, Riddles, Guess Who?
Introduce and reinforce community helpers with a variety of activities:
1. Web - Brainstorm what students already know about community helpers.
2. Graph - Determine which community helpers your students think are most important before and/or after your unit.
3. Match-up - Match the image of a community helper to its name.
4. Riddles - Decide which community helpers meet the description given in riddle form.
5. Guess Who? - Play this game on the interactive board to encourage students to ask ques
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Transition Words in Narrative Writing for PROMETHEAN Board
Do your students need help using transition words in their writing? If so, here is the Promethean Board flipchart for you. This standards based lesson(s) comes complete with multiple activities to teach students about transition words. Click HERE to save 30% off the price of individual resources with the bundle.Inside you'll find a complete and easy to use lesson in ActivInspire Software:• Teacher defines transition words•A joke, about Kermit the Frog, in which students pick out transition words
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Also included in:Â Writing Lesson Plans Bundle PROMETHEAN BOARD Version
Early American Civilizations (Incans, Mayans, Aztecs) Flipchart
This flipchart introduces the Incan, Mayan, and Aztec civilizations with great visuals and brief descriptions. Perfect for class discussion or lecture. I teach 8th grade but is perfect for any level.
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5th - 12th
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European Explorers Unit - Flipchart
An introduction to European Exploration of the Americas. Pages include: World Map/Timeline, Vikings, Marco Polo, Columbus, Cabot, Cortes, Cartier, Ponce de Leon, and a process grid. If you want Word Documents of the World Map and Process grid, they will be available for FREE in my store. Enjoy!
Grades:
4th - 7th
Map Labeling Activities: Continents, North America, USA, Tennessee
This flipchart has 4 different activities, with answer key slides.
1) Labeling major cities in Tennessee
2) Labeling TN on the USA map, and filling in the blank for the name of our country
3) Labeling major countries/areas of North America
4) Labeling the 7 continents
Let us know if you have any questions! Enjoy! :)
~Megan and Jenn
Map Labeling Activities: Continents, North America, USA, Tennessee by Megan and Jenn in First is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDe
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1st - 3rd
Virginia Studies Regions and Geography Flip Chart VS.2a,b,c
Newly updated! This 32 page flipchart is a great review of map skills and Virginia Studies geography concepts in VS.2a,b,c. It reviews continents and oceans and Virginia's place in the world. Students will be able to identify the states that border Virginia. They can also identify Virginia's major rivers and the cities that are found on them. Finally students will get an introduction to the five regions and the Fall Line. The slides end with a review game (with an option to use a link to a Kahoo
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Grades:
4th - 5th
Freedom Bag- Underground Railroad
Students will choose 4 items that would be the most beneficial to take on the Underground Railroad.
Students will write a reason for each item on index cards to place in the bag.
Students will write a letter to their family explaining the tips to escaping and place in their bag. (moss, stars, songs, safe houses)
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PreK - 4th
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American Revolution Jeopardy Game
This flipchart was used to assess a classroom of 4th and 5th graders before their unit test on the American Revolution. It covers important vocabulary, people, groups, and events of the Revolution. Questions are based off the American Revolution flip chart on my page.
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Grades:
4th - 5th
Who Am I? A World History Review Game
In this end-of-year review flipchart, students are provided with clues about different civilization they have studied in my World History 1 class. To reveal the clues, move the shapes to the side. When the student decides which civilization, they write it on their whiteboard. The less clues that are revealed, the more points they earn.
Developed in a special education classroom for students with language delays and is written as such.
Civilizations reviewed: Ancient Egypt, Mali/Ghana/Songhai
Grades:
3rd - 9th
All About the Compass Rose Promethean Activinspire Flipchart Lesson
With this flipchart, your students will learn where the Cardinal and Intermediate directions are located on a Compass Rose.
This flipchart is highly interactive with containers, restrictors, interactive games and activities, plus an assessment.
Your students will be sure to love learning directions with this lesson. Enjoy!
Grades:
1st - 5th
Past Present Future
Flipchart with images to help students understand and discuss changes over time. You can also change the order of the slides and have students drag them to put them in the correct order. Images can also be used as writing prompts. There is an additional slide with images of Past and Present that is to facilitate discussions of civil rights and segregation.
Social Studies, advancements in technology, progress
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
The American Revolution
There are six sections to the flipchart (all are hyperlinked). Sections 2-6 start with a review of the previous section and ends with an activity that can be changed to fit your classroom needs. Throughout the sections there are also posed questions for students to discuss as a class and all unit vocabulary is highlighted.
*Text is paraphrased from the Scott Foresman Social Studies: Building a Nation textbook*
Here’s a brief outline of what’s in the sections.
1. Trouble Over Taxes
King Georg
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Grades:
4th - 5th
AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL JEOPARDY GAME FLIPCHART ~ FUN HISTORY & FACTS ~ GRADES 5+
This flipchart game is a Jeopardy version of American Presidential Jeopardy trivia. This four category game features twenty trivia questions about past and present American Presidents. Categories include: Who am I?; Nice work, Mr. President!; A Tragic End; and Presidential Quotes. Great for review of Americanhistory and trivia facts for your upper elementary students. Ideal for grades 5 - 8 although can be adapted for high school students as well. Can be used whole class, as an individual assess
Grades:
5th - 12th
Holidays Around The World Flipchart
This Flipchart is an interactive and fun way for students to study different cultures and traditions through a Holidays Around the World unit! This Flipchart provides fun images, interactive websites linked in, videos and information about holidays celebrated around the world.
*Exciting and engaging for students!
*Introduces students to diverse cultures, building respect & appreciation!
*SO many opportunities and activities to expand on from here!
*28 pages! *Over 15 countries included!
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Not Grade Specific
Super Holidays Flipchart for Activ Board
This is a flipchart I have used for Christmas Around the World with my class. Each country has the following:
Map
Pictures
Current weather (click on the icon)
Facts-Santa, Cultural Figures, Foods, and traditions
**Please note, pictures are from google images and are linked to sites such as travel websites. Do not reproduce.
**Also it is important to stress that the information for each country is from research done from Santa Net, Travel websites for each country, personal narratives from teac
Grades:
1st - 10th
Louisiana Economics
This flipchart was created for a 3rd grade social studies lesson to help students review vocabulary. It can be used as an informal assessment or a summative assessment. It is editable under the top pic layer. Fonts may need to be tweaked if you pull the top pic off, but you can take out the Louisiana information or change as needed this way. GLEs 35, 36, 37
Have fun with this interactive lesson to be used with Classflow or with devices such as ActivExpressions or ActivVotes.
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Grades:
3rd - 4th
Cold War Guided Notes Flipchart
Guided notes; VA SOL USII.8 (updated with 2015 standards); ActivInspire; Flipchart; Marshall Plan; Cold War; prosperity and technology; globalization. Use this flipchart to enhance your instruction of post-WWII United States. Includes links to outside activities/websites, embedded videos, and a Cold War propaganda activity using Dr. Seuss's Butter Battle book. Students fill in blanks using word banks provided. Student interactive notes also available for purchase in my store.
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Grades:
6th - 8th
How I learned geography - Bilingual Flipchart (Reading&Writing)
Material: How I Learned Geography by Uri ShulevitzThe main objective of this activity is to identify author's purpouse and the message of the story. This activity can be used in a Bilingual Classroom because all the flipchart is translated in Spanish. In this flipchart all the activities are related to the book. You will find reading activities (predictions, comprehension, word work), geography activities, writing activities (expository writing, transition words) among other cooperative learnin
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Also included in:Â How I Learned Geography Bundle (Reading and Writing)
World War II Guided Notes Flipchart
Guided notes; VA SOL USII.7 (updated to reflect 2015 standards); ActivInspire; Flipchart; WWII; causes; events; homefront. Use this flipchart to enhance your instruction of the World War II. Students fill in blanks using word banks provided. Student interactive notes also available for purchase in my store.
Grades:
6th - 8th
Geography & Expansion Guided Notes Flipchart
Guided notes for VA SOL's USII.2 and USII.4a; ActivInspire Flipchart. You must have Promethean Board software installed to open this file.Use this Flipchart to enhance your instruction of U.S. geography, westward expansion, and its impact on Native Americans. Students fill in blanks using word banks provided. Coordinating student interactive notes and bellringers also available for purchase in my store.Printable maps for U.S. regions and cities (slides 1-2) can be found here."Letter from Laura"
Grades:
6th - 8th
Community Helpers Flip Chart
This flip chart includes movies, interactive games and lessons on the different types of community helpers.
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Roaring Twenties, Great Depression Guided Notes Flipchart
Guided notes; VA SOL USII.6 (updated to reflect 2015 standards); ActivInspire; Flipchart; 1920's; Jazz Age; assembly line; Prohibition; Great Migration; Harlem Renaissance; Great Depression; New Deal. Use this flipchart to enhance your instruction of the 1920's-1930's. Students fill in blanks using word banks provided. Student interactive notes also available for purchase in my store.
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Grades:
6th - 8th
1st Grade Social Studies History Flipchart (TN)
A flipchart for grade 1 Social Studies standards for TN. Includes all standards, with activities and links.
Grades:
1st - 2nd
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