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My Place in the World Project: "Me on the Map" Geography for Kids
This hands-on geography project "My Place in the World" has kids create a visual representation of how we fit into the world. Teachers often use it with the kids' geography book "Me on the Map," by Joan Sweeney. Ideal for integrated Social Studies, ELA, Geography, Literacy, and Map Skills.Using a series of nesting circles to show the relative sizes of different geographic places, this simple but effective geography lesson helps kids sort out their relation to one another. This activity includes
Grades:
K - 5th
Also included in: Geography for Kids Bundle: Three Essential Hands-on Activities
Chinese New Year Bulletin Board Kit for Lunar New Year Library Bulletin Board
Spark your students’ interest in Chinese New Year 2023! This low-prep bulletin board will help your students learn about the Chinese Zodiac and an important new year celebration. And it works well with Lunar New Year too! Your entire school community will gather around your library bulletin board to find out which zodiac animal they are associated with. ⭐️ Save 20% on this Chinese New Year Bulletin Board kit when you purchase the Year Round Bulletin Board BUNDLE! ⭐️ This colorful Chinese New Yea
Grades:
K - 5th
Also included in: Winter Bulletin Board Kits BUNDLE | Library Bulletin Boards
Picasso Pumpkins: Hispanic Heritage Month, EASY Fall or Halloween Craft Cut&Glue
A fun Fall art activity for Hispanic Heritage Month. Learn about Spains most famous artist while creating a cubist style pumpkin in the likeness of Picasso’s famous paintings. Several pumpkin images and sizes are included for student choice, including one created after Picasso's "Girl in the Mirror" painting. There are 2 pages of facial features drawn from Picasso’s most popular paintings including “Skull with Leeks. Students of all ages and abilities will have fun mixing up the face features
Grades:
K - 6th
African Folktales Read Aloud Activities with A Story A Story Anansi the Spider
Are you looking for the perfect February folktale lesson? This popular folktale from West Africa explains where all of the other Anansi folktales come from. This story retold by author Gail E. Haley makes a great introduction during African American History Month. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE BOOK IS NOT INCLUDED IN THIS PRODUCT.This product is also part of several BUNDLES that can be found here:20% savings Fables and Folktales BUNDLE30% savings Book Extension Activities #1 BUNDLE35% savings Book Extens
Grades:
K - 3rd
Morning Meeting Sharing Questions- 200 Fun Discussion Questions
Do you participate in morning meetings? Do you ever get to the sharing time and find yourself asking the same types of questions or simply having trouble thinking of new questions to promote a safe and fun classroom community? This download contains 180 unique morning meeting sharing questions--one for each day of the school year. It is a great addition to any morning meeting space. You can choose to print out the master copy of the questions if you have a way of organizing the questions on your
Grades:
K - 5th
Also included in: Morning Meeting BUNDLE: Greetings, Sharing Questions, and Activities
Culturally Responsive Morning Meeting Slides | Morning Meeting Activities
A picture is worth 1,000 words therefore use powerful pictures to have powerful morning meeting discussions with these morning meetings slides. Compatible with Google Slides, Google Classroom and Seesaw. This powerpoint contains over 90 pictures with prompts to discuss with your students. Now includes pandemic pictures to engage students in the conversation about living in a pandemic. A Whole Year of picture prompts! Watch video to see the entire presentation:Culturally Responsive Morning Meetin
Grades:
PreK - 1st
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Fall Crafts Picasso Style: Pumpkin, Turkey, Portraits. Thanksgiving Art Bundle
This Fall or Autumn, Thanksgiving and Halloween craft collage bundle is a student and parent favorite! Each lesson contains a variety of student choices, resulting in amazing unique student Art. I tested them with students in Kindergarten through 5th grade with amazing results. My grade 5 students were especially engaged when I challenged them to invent new ways of using patterns and colors like Picasso did in his “Blue and Rose” period’s. Lessons take students 2 to 3 art classes to finish, depe
Grades:
K - 6th
K-2 Social & Racial Justice Morning Meeting Slides-Anti Bias Education-ABAR
UPDATE: GOOGLE SLIDES FORMAT NOW AVAILABLE 10/15/20Teaching Tolerance’s Social Justice Standards is a road map for anti-bias education at every grade level. These particular slides were developed for K-2 classrooms. **Grades 3-5 Available!**Grades 6-8 Available!The purpose of these slides is to engage our students in deep and meaningful conversations that go beyond the basic "my favorite color is...". They are meant to elicit dialogue about inequalities and equity. What does that look like? How
Grades:
K - 2nd
Native American Folktale Read Aloud - Coyote Steals the Blanket -Readers Theater
Explore Utah Ute Native American Fables and Folktales with book extension activities for a fun-filled favorite Coyote Trickster Tale by Janet Stevens with Coyote not learning his lesson yet again. Retelling, sequencing, readers' theater, and vocabulary all provide a review of story elements in the library or classroom. THE BOOK IS NOT INCLUDED.After an initial reading of this great story (check your library), your students will LOVE retelling using the character puppets. And they will all join i
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Grades:
K - 3rd
Transportation Around the World (Real Photos)
** 60 REAL Photographs
** Water, air, land, and human-powered types of transportation from around the world
** Pictures from North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Six of these pictures show the unique ways that children get to school in India, Burma, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
** These pictures are perfect for a transportation unit and can be incorporated into many other areas of learning as well, including multicultural studies and geography. Use them for writing prompts, d
Grades:
K - 3rd
Read Aloud Book Activities - Heritage, Fables, Folktales, Holidays and More
Activities for 13 popular read aloud book extension lessons that your primary students will love are here in one HUGE 35% off BUNDLE. Reinforce basic ELA skills of sequencing, retelling, story elements and more with these colorful hands on resources. Great for library or classroom story times. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE BOOKS ARE NOT INCLUDED.Great for Kindergarten, First, and Second Grade Library lessons.Check your school library for these books that include folk tales, holiday stories, cultural topi
Grades:
K - 3rd
WHAT IS BIAS // Intro lesson for primary grades // Anti-racism series
In light of recent news, it is imperative that we have healthy discussions around racism and bias in our classrooms. However, when dealing with young children, we must proceed with caution.This resource explores the basic understanding of bias with an intro lesson, discussion, and activity. Included in this resource- Video resource created for this product- Interactive slides- An anti-bias and anti-black approach to talking about bias based on the educational framework of anti-racism.- Guided in
Grades:
K - 3rd
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Also included in: Anti-bias & Anti-racism bundle for primary grades// All units combined
8 Holidays Around the World Christmas Crafts Bundle, Rich in Traditions!
This is an exciting craft bundle filled with all of my favorite holidays around the world craft projects. My students loved learning about traditions around the world, and creating the projects, almost as much as I enjoyed designing them! For further details and instructions click on the title of the activity, and read the descriptions. I hope that you have a wonderful holiday season with your students, and family. The Art LadyHere is a link to my YouTube video that describes the traditions.http
Grades:
K - 6th
Easy Picasso Turkey Cut and Glue Fall Craft. Adorable Thanksgiving Art Activity
This lesson is inspired by Pablo Picasso's "Le Coq" painting and drawings. Students will have fun cutting and pasting their own poultry pictures using the variety of rooster and turkey parts. They can create turkeys, roosters, chickens, or even disguise their poultry to look like one of Picasso's paintings! Mix and match face features to create an expressive turkey or rooster in the likeness of Picasso’s "Rooster". Includes rooster and chicken parts to disguise the turkey along with hats from P
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Grades:
K - 6th
Famous Buildings of the World - Buildings Study
This is a fun printable that goes well with your building study. I have compiled a bunch of pictures of famous buildings from around the world that you can print out and share with your students during your study. You can turn them into a book or display them in your block area for your students to build using the building materials available in your class. If you have already purchased my Building Study Bundle, you will find it there as part of the bundle.How to use:Print, laminate, and cut out
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Grades:
PreK - 1st
Also included in: Creative Curriculum-Buildings Study Bundle
Celebrating Black History Month Through Critical Thinking: Famous Inventions
Black History month is designated as a time to celebrate and recognize African American history and achievements. This year, combine the history with critical thinking!Famous Inventions focuses on four major inventions that we use everyday that were created through the innovation of Black Inventors but with a level of rigor that fosters the development of critical thing.For example:In Garrett saw a problem. Many people were having car crashes. What did Garrett invent to help solve the problem
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Fortune Cookie Fortunes Book Companion for Chinese Lunar New Year Activities
Fortune Cookie Fortunes by Grace Lin is a great picture book to read around Chinese New Year. Enliven your Lunar New Year lessons in the library or classroom with this fun read aloud picture book. Use the student activities for literacy centers or whole group activities.These Common Core aligned literacy activities will help your Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade students identify the central message and use key details to describe the characters in the story.Included in this product:Lesson PlanI
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: Picture Book Activities - Book Companion Bundle
Puzzles/Riddles/Brain Teasers Daily
Grow your students’ problem solving and critical thinking skills with these Daily puzzlements for your students. It is a fantastic way to engage your students in collaboration and critical thinking.These animated Google Slides are great for online, in-person class learning and/or communication. This is an awesome way to keep your audience engaged and allows students of all levels to access. Also a great resource to share with parents to encourage/engage students in reading at home. This packet
Grades:
K - 6th
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Culture Research Pack: Question Cards, Graphic Organizers, Report Paper
This is a fun way to have the kids pick a country and research its culture.
There are 27 cards with different countries, and each one lists 6 questions to jump-start the research. The cards are easy to take to the computer/iPad while researching.
There are also 3 choices of graphic organizers for note-taking:
1) space for writing & drawing
2) blank boxes for student choice of writing/drawing
3) lined boxes for neat note-taking
Finally, there is a lined report page to form a writte
Grades:
K - 5th
Social Justice MEGA Bundle for the Year
This mega-bundle was created to spark conversation and learn about loving one's identity, celebrating diversity, recognizing injustice, and giving tools with how to take action against injustice and support others. I used the Social Justice standards to create each lesson. They are a set of anchor standards (which can be found on TeachingTolerance.org) divided into four domains: identity, diversity, justice and action. These standards are designed to make schools more equitable, safe and just.W
Grades:
K - 2nd
ANIMAL EXPLORER ACTIVITY PACK (0 to 5 years) Teacher pack & Activities 83 pages!
ANIMAL EXPLORER ACTIVITY PACK (0 to 5 years) Teacher pack & Activities 83 pages!Includes:Many lesson plans- Animal explorer lesson plan- Animal matches lesson plan- Opposites lesson plan- Animal prints lesson planWeekly planner - Endangered animalsPhoto pack to accompany early years resources Endangered animals x12 pagesWear it wild ANIMAL MATCHES x28 pagesWear it wild ANIMAL PRINTS x 12 pagesWear it wild OPPOSITES x 17 pages83 pagesPlease write a REVIEW, thanks so much :) I am also selling:
Grades:
PreK - 5th, Staff
Buildings Study - Editable Supplemental Materials - Discovery Area
Make learning about BUILDINGS and physics engaging and hands-on in your class! This product goes well with any BUILDINGS study and includes ideas and printables using real pictures to easily set up a discovery or science area in your class. Fully editable so you can change the language or add your own words. Time saver because everything is done for you! PLEASE WATCH THE PREVIEW VIDEO FOR DETAILSHow to use:set up a small table or shelving unituse the labels included to label everything to make
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Grades:
PreK - 1st
Also included in: Creative Curriculum-Buildings Study Bundle
Social Justice Identity Bundle
This unit has a specific focus on celebrating identity and is designed to give students opportunities on how they can love and embrace their who they are, understand their group's identity, and understand that how they look and do things is the same and different from how other people look and do things. I used the Social Justice standards to create this unit. They are a set of anchor standards (which can be found on TeachingTolerance.org) divided into four domains: identity, diversity, justice
Grades:
K - 2nd
Math Strategy Games
Engage your students in these highly effective strategy games. This set includes Tapatan from the Philippines, Shisima from Kenya, Pong Hau K’i from China, and Len Choa from Thailand. Each game can be printed and laminated or placed in a plastic sleeve for continued use. Games are appropriate for K – 6th grade. Directions included.
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Uses:
• Math Centers
• Class Rewards
• Free time
• Cultural Fair
• Substitutes
• Classroom parties
• Open House
• Family
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Grades:
K - 6th
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