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4th grade oral communication social studies games
End of the Year Break Activities - Digital Resource Mystery Game - Team Building
Are you ready to watch reading comprehension skills skyrocket before the end of the year break?! Great for team building! Students will work together to solve the mystery AND practice a variety of academic skills including; inferencing, critical thinking, problem solving, reading comprehension, and much more! The material is so fun and engaging, students won't even know they are actually learning! This activity can be used anytime of year and is a fantastic way to get students excited about l
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3rd - 6th
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Holidays Around the World Escape Room Game Google Forms | Distance Learning
Now updated with a digital option! The digital option is a Google Form.Will your class escape in time? Try this escape room game with your students today! Your class has been locked in an ice castle by Jack Frost! Students will be learning about different winter holiday traditions that are celebrated all over the world. This game is intended for 3rd-5th grade students. Students will be practicing reading comprehension skills, as well as social studies skills. This is an interactive game where th
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3rd - 6th
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Latitude and Longitude Battleship Game - Map Skills Geography Activities
Help your students practice their latitude and longitude skills in a fun and engaging way using this no-prep latitude and longitude battleship game! The directions are included right on the template, so this is a no prep activity that comes ready to play. I've also provided PowerPoint directions so you can show students how to play as a class. Students will become well-practiced with using a grid and making sure they always give latitude coordinates first. I've used this every year and my studen
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Latitude and Longitude Practice Puzzle Review Activities Bundle
The Great Depression: A Saving and Spending Game
Students work together in small groups to make decisions about how to save or spend their money during the Great Depression. They will see what it is like to have a well-paying job and then lose most of their money in the stock market crash of 1929. They will have to find a new job, a place to live (hobo camp or boxcar), and figure out how to provide for their family with very little.Students will have to subtract their bills from their total amount of money using a spending ledger (provided).
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4th - 8th
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Branches of Government ESCAPE ROOM! Legislative, Executive, Judicial Branch
The Branches of Government Escape Room will take students on a secret mission around the classroom! This escape room has students decode interesting facts about the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Branches of government. This Escape Room has students walking around the classroom breaking codes. The codes include ciphers, Morse code, cryptograms and a final 4 digit code based on the decoders/clues.What’s Included?✏️ 4 Reading Passages✏️ 4 Puzzle Phrases to Decode✏️ 4 Decoders✏️ 4 Differentiat
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4th - 8th
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Virtual Field Trip *Growing* Bundle! National Parks, Space & More!
ULTIMATE Virtual Field Trip *Growing* Bundle!12 trips and GROWING! This product will include all my future elementary field trips! Grab it now at the lowest price!! Bundle price will increase when new trips are added.⭐️NEW⭐️ MEMPHIS, TN Dr. MLK Jr. added 1/28/2024⭐️NEW⭐️ THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA added 5/22/2022 - Redownload to access!! Virtual Field Trips are an engaging activity for in person learning or online meetings. No matter the format of instruction, your students will be engaged! Use the
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K - 5th
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States and Capitals Bingo, I Have Who Has Game (50 States & Capitals Activities)
This resource is intended to help students learn the states, capitals and abbreviations and to help spark student interest United States Social Studies. Download Preview FilePlease view the preview file prior to purchasing. Please ensure that it is appropriate for your grade level prior to purchasing.This social studies resource includes:1. Social Studies State Study Cards2. Social Studies State Study Sheets3. States and Capitals I Have, Who has? Game4. States and Abbreviations I Have, Who
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2nd - 5th
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Plymouth (Plimoth) Colony Unit: The Mayflower, Pilgrims, Wampanoag People
Plymouth (Plimoth) was a fascinating settlement. Pilgrims, originally known as Separatists, were treated poorly in England because they refused to follow the teachings of the Church of England. After years of struggle, they finally set sail on the Mayflower with the goal of creating a farming village in the New World. The Wampanoag People, who had lived in the area for thousands of years, entered into a peace agreement with the Pilgrims. This peace agreement lasted for decades. Do you want to pr
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4th - 5th
Also included in: 5th Grade Social Studies Big Bundle
Oregon Trail: Simulation Game
Super engaging slideshow game to get students thinking about what life on the Oregon Trail was like. You lead the class with 13 scenarios, and students make decisions and keep track of survival points. A great way to introduce the Oregon Trail to students. It includes 42 slides, directions, and a student handout to record survival points. I use this activity with my 8 graders a few details might need to be edited if used with younger grade levels.Takes about 1 hour.
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3rd - 12th
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Also included in: Western Expansion Games Bundle: Oregon Trail, Gold Rush, Lewis and clark
Back To School Drama Circle Activity
Drama Activity Circles are such a fun way to practice oral reading fluency, reading with expression, elements of drama, listening skills, following instructions, and performance skills, all in one fun Back to School activity! This drama activity will get your students excited about the first days of school. It has a similar format to the “I Have / Who Has” Games and will have your students begging to perform it over and over again.Each drama card is similar to a task card in that it has an instr
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Back to School Bundle for Upper Grades
Christmas / Holiday Game Answer Battle Trivia Family Powerpoint Mac PC iPad
✅ You can use this for your Virtual Party! Check out this video showing you how: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq2WIMvocYo ✅ This Christmas Answer Battle Trivia Powerpoint game is sure to be a big hit at your Christmas party, classroom, office party, or church.✅ It has 13 rounds like:- "Places parents hide presents," - "Name Santa's Reindeer," - "Birds Listed In The 12 Days Of Christmas," - "Common Christmas Cookie Shapes," - "Christmas Movies," etc. ✅ Each round has up to 10 answers (other
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Conversation Skills Phone Text Messages | Starters, Turn Taking | Speech Therapy
Your students will beg you to work on conversational skills with these super motivating cell phone theme cards! You’ll get 95 text message conversation cards targeting conversational turn taking, topic maintenance, making comments, asking questions, safety, and initiation. Perfect for your social skills groups!We all know our students love their phones (or their parents’ phones!). Play into their interests for an engaging and motivating session.You can print and laminate for a lifelong tool read
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1st - 6th
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Vocabulary Building Card Game for ESL & ELL : People, Places, Things, Verbs
Vocabulary building card games are wonderful for encouraging speaking, listening, reading and thinking skills in English classrooms! This game plays like UNO and to use a card students must think of 2 different words for relating to their card. There are 80 cards in the following categories: People, Places, Things, Verbs & Words. Example: "Name 2 Places" Where you can buy food. Your students must think of two different places. (Perhaps a grocery store and a restaurant.)*If the question is
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in: ESL Games Bundle Elementary Grammar and Vocabulary Building Activities
Language Blocks: A Speech Therapy UN-stacking Game! + Google Slides Version
Grab your wooden unstacking blocks game and these mats for a FUN and EFFECTIVE speech therapy session with this game companion! ! I love playing stacking blocks in therapy but my students often got frustrated with how easy it is to knock over (and some of my students would knock it over or bump the table on purpose). I wanted to figure out a way to play this game without as much frustration! This is how Language Blocks was born! Now includes a Google Slides version with moveable pieces, great f
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K - 6th
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Articulation Dot Art BUNDLE for all ALL sounds & year 'round use! - 84 Pages!
Want to easily get 100 + trials in articulation therapy while engaging your students? LOVE print-and-go activities? Dot art / do-a-dot is a fun way to immediately reinforce correct sound productions, and this NO PREP BUNDLE is discounted 20% for you. These fast-paced activities make our jobs easier, and they work for preschoolers through upper elementary kids! Keep hands and minds busy while keeping articulation therapy intensive. Once they dry, send home as speech homework, or hang these up pr
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PreK - 5th
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Articulation Blocks: Speech Therapy Game Companion + Digital Option
Grab your wooden unstacking blocks game and these mats for a FUN and EFFECTIVE speech therapy session with this game companion! ! I love playing stacking blocks in therapy but my students often got frustrated with how easy it is to knock over (and some of my students would knock it over or bump the table on purpose). I wanted to figure out a way to play this game without as much frustrationThis is how Articulation Blocks was born! Includes a blank fill-able (type-able) mat to create your own! I
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K - 8th
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Bartering Activity with an Interactive Economics Game: Barter, Trade, Create!
Are your students learning about bartering? This game will have students practice their bartering skills!The object of the game is to get a home, clothing, and food (meat/fish/eggs, bread, AND vegetables). You may barter goods or combine cards to make what you need. A video is now included with instructions for both basic and advanced game play. It is always a bit challenging to learn how to play a new game by reading instructions, so I have created a video overview so that you can familiarize y
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Economics for Kids BUNDLE
Conversation Blocks: An UN-stacking Game! (game companion) + Google Slides
Grab your wooden unstacking blocks game and these mats for a FUN and EFFECTIVE speech therapy session! I love playing stacking blocks in therapy but my students often got frustrated with how easy it is to knock over (and some of my students would knock it over or bump the table on purpose). I wanted to figure out a way to play this game without as much frustration! This is how Conversation Blocks was born! Now includes a Google Slides version with moveable pieces for distance learning, telether
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K - 8th
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No Prep S and Z Articulation Words, Phrases, Sentences, and Stories
Articulation pages without any frills! There is no clipart in this S and Z articulation packet. This S and Z articulation activity pack targets the sounds in all positions of words in isolation, phrases, sentences, and stories to use with your speech therapy students.These S and Z articulation pages are easy to print and use during your speech therapy sessions. There is not any clipart on these pages, so they can be used with any age.Here's what you'll get:S and Z Articulation Memory Cards (72 c
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1st - 6th
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Science and Social Studies Adapted Activities for Special Education BUNDLE
Are you struggling to differentiate science and social studies topics for your students with special needs? Look no further, I've got you covered!Science and Social Studies materials are hard to come by for a self-contained special education setting. This bundle contains many different adapted and differentiated activities to use while teaching your students with special needs about various Science & Social Studies topics!What you will find inside this bundle:Adapted BooksCount It Out Adapte
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K - 5th
Articulation in Conversation Mega Pack!
This resource includes everything you need to target articulation sounds at the conversational level!Do you ever feel like you are running out of things to do with your students who are working on their speech sounds at the conversation level? Or that you can’t seem to get enough data on those rarely occurring sounds? Well this resource will solve your problems! With over 520 pages of material, you'll be able to gather a ton of data! Bonus - it's all black and white with minimal prep! The packet
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PreK - 8th
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Would You Rather Articulation (R)
Would You Rather Articulation - An Articulation Carryover Activity for Upper Elementary and Middle School
***Update: Now available in ink saver version!! Choose between color or ink saver black and white cards and word lists***
This packet addresses /r, r-blends, er, or, ar, ear, air, and ire/ !!!
These cards were designed to be used to promote both serious and silly discussion while working on carryover of /r/. The graphics were designed with older students in mind.
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•Word lists f
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4th - 12th
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FIND THE MYSTERY STATE • A Fun Geography Game Using Map-Reading Skills
It’s geography, critical thinking, following directions, and map-reading skills rolled into one! Find the Mystery State is a set of 28 Task Cards that can be used for a fun, creative game to help your students review basic map skills and following directions. The Nelson family is headed to a new home somewhere in the United States. But what is their final destination? Your students play detective and try to find the location of the family’s new home by eliminating states one at a time using a m
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4th - 6th
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Describe It Semantic Mapping Board Games | Use Alone or With Programs like EET
Make semantic mapping, describing, and vocabulary building FUN and engaging with this set of board games! These 17 printable game boards will provide lots of practice for students to describe common items and people in lots of different ways! They are ideal for speech language therapy, but they can also be used in the classroom or sent home for extra practice. These game boards can also be used to help teach and practice each "bead" on the EET (Expanding Expressions Tool). My students needed ext
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K - 5th
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