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Kindergarten Winter social studies games

Preview of Who Am I? - Community Helpers Powerpoint Game #1

Who Am I? - Community Helpers Powerpoint Game #1

Created by
Teacher Gameroom
Community helpers games are great for teaching students about different community jobs. In this "Who am I" game, students must guess the community worker. There are 10 questions and you just click on each question to go to it. Each question has 3 clues and student have to guess which community helper it describes. Clues include tools they may use, what they do, and where they may work. Great for a whole class review or rainy day activity. Great for individual practice on the iPad! Extra licens
Preview of Virtual Field Trip *Growing* Bundle! National Parks, Space & More!

Virtual Field Trip *Growing* Bundle! National Parks, Space & More!

Created by
Teach or Travel
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
Preview of Winter Bingo Riddles Game Speech Therapy ELA Winter Inferencing Activities

Winter Bingo Riddles Game Speech Therapy ELA Winter Inferencing Activities

Created by
Speech Sprouts
A winter bingo inferencing game with an extra fun twist! Guess the rhyming riddles to play and you'll target multiple skills: inference, rhyme, listening comprehension, and winter vocabulary too. With 30 bingo cards, this game is perfect for any size group and it includes both print and digital options!Looking for a winter party game? This is the perfect no-guilt (it's educational!) winter listening and inferencing activity. Bingo Riddles is your quick and easy-to-prep answer your kids will lov
Preview of Snowmen at Night Activities Speech and Language Therapy Winter Book Companion

Snowmen at Night Activities Speech and Language Therapy Winter Book Companion

Created by
Speech Sprouts
Winter speech and language activities in a fun story companion. Target multiple goals with leveled activities for Wh and Yes-No question picture cards, matching, story sequencing and re-tell, categories, rhyme, syllables, articulation, inference, and prediction too! There are plenty of frosty activities to cover your students for multiple sessions- making planning quick and easy! Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner is an absolute favorite of my students. Who doesn't love to imagine what would ha
Preview of Geography & Map Skills - Reading a Map & Globe Activities & Worksheets

Geography & Map Skills - Reading a Map & Globe Activities & Worksheets

Make teaching mapping skills fun with this map skills mini unit! It covers geography and map navigation basics, including foundational vocabulary; using a compass rose, map key, and simple grid to navigate and read maps and globes; locating continents, oceans, poles, and the equator; and more.Here's what's included:Map Skills Anchor Charts and Vocabulary Cards (map, globe, equator, prime meridian, North Pole, South Pole, latitude, longitude, coordinate, compass rose, key, scale, physical feature
Preview of Digital 100th Day of School Activities | Digital 100 Days of School Games

Digital 100th Day of School Activities | Digital 100 Days of School Games

Easily plan a fun and engaging 100th Day of School with these digital 100th Day of School activities! These digital 100th day of school activities are no prep, so they can be completed during centers, morning work, or as part of your 100th Day Celebration. A combination of whole group and independent activities are included to help keep your little whippersnappers engaged!To help target academic skills, they integrate reading, writing and math. There is more than enough to last the whole day!11
Preview of Holiday Bingo Set

Holiday Bingo Set

Created by
The Teacher Wife
BEST-SELLER! This Holiday Bingo Set is perfect for class parties or family gatherings! It has fun holiday images for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and winter. Some of the images included are a snowflake, stocking, menorah, kinara, reindeer, dreidel, and Santa Claus. This set comes with 30 different variations of the bingo boards and caller cards (and can accommodate up to 30 students). The bingo boards and caller cards come in color and B&W for your convenience. There is also an activity for
Preview of Morning Work Tubs - Winter Fine Motor Bins for ELA and Math - January

Morning Work Tubs - Winter Fine Motor Bins for ELA and Math - January

Created by
Marsha McGuire
What's the difference between dreading morning arrival time and loving it? Morning Work Tubs! Engage your kindergarten students with these WINTER Themed, fine motor-focused, morning work bins that explore new concepts and offer valuable practice through play for essential skills in both Math and ELA. In this set, you will find everything you need to organize, set up, and get started including 35 activities.Why Morning Work:►keeps students engaged in meaningful activities►provides hands-on practi
Preview of Careers, Community Helpers Guessing Game Digital & Printable

Careers, Community Helpers Guessing Game Digital & Printable

This Careers and Community Helpers Guessing Game makes learning about careers and community helpers interactive and FUN! Students pretend to be "Career Detectives" and use their clues to solve 17 riddles. ✅ Both a digital for Google Slides™ and a PowerPoint version of the presentation are included, as well as a printable mini coloring book!✨THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES:✅ A digital for Google Slides™ Career Guessing Game with 17 clever career riddles. Students (or educators) read the riddle, use the cl
Preview of Community Helpers and Occupations Bingo Game

Community Helpers and Occupations Bingo Game

This community helpers bingo game will help your students learn about occupations in their community. For an easy game simply use the teacher calling cards to call out the name of a community helper. For a more challenging game read one of the clues on the calling cards so the students can decipher the occupation.The community helpers included in this game are:-doctor-fire fighter-trash collector-waiter-life guard-nurse-chef-veterinarian-farmer-crossing guard-teacher-mail carrier-forest ranger-
Preview of Goods & Services Sort Cards for Economics Kindergarten & First Grade

Goods & Services Sort Cards for Economics Kindergarten & First Grade

Created by
Class of Kinders
This resource provides 18 sorting cards to help facilitate talks about economics…specifically goods and services! Perfect for a pocket chart lesson or add magnets and use on a magnetic surface.Includes:Goods and Services header cards with simple definition11 goods cards7 services cardsUse for whole group sorting, or Kagan games like quiz, quiz trade….or place in a center as a follow up to your economics lesson.If you need other goods and services resources check my TPT store for posters and an e
Preview of Needs and Wants Bingo Game - Social Studies Kindergarten & First

Needs and Wants Bingo Game - Social Studies Kindergarten & First

Created by
Class of Kinders
Teaching needs & wants? Want a fun and engaging way to practice identifying examples of needs and wants? This bingo game produces good conversations and provides opportunities for fun & learning!INCLUDES:18 bingo boards. Each one has a different configuration. Have more than 18 students? No worries, just print as many as needed. More than one BINGO winner is even better! 36 needs/wants bingo call cards (2 sheets of needs/2 sheets of wants)To play: teacher will call a picture using a call
Preview of Winter Snowman Hide and Seek Games | Phonics & Sight Words Practice Activities

Winter Snowman Hide and Seek Games | Phonics & Sight Words Practice Activities

When planning winter activities, be sure to add these Snowman Hide and Seek games for phonics and sight word practice! They can be projected in your classroom so you can engage your students without printing or cutting anything. Best of all, this PowerPoint activity is editable so you can add any skills to match your lessons!CLICK HERE TO SAVE BIG ON THE WINTER DIGITAL ACTIVITIES BUNDLEEven if you're not tech-savvy, this game is easy to play! Just watch the video preview to see how to play!Choos
Preview of Science and Social Studies Adapted Activities for Special Education BUNDLE

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
Preview of Winter Holiday BINGO with Riddles & Call Cards! - Print and Virtual

Winter Holiday BINGO with Riddles & Call Cards! - Print and Virtual

Created by
Diane Teaches
Holiday Bingo with Riddles!HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Celebrate this holiday season with a fun-packed riddle game. This is perfect for any class, Pre-K to 5th grade. Check out my other BINGO sets!BINGO Mega BundleSEASONS Bundle (coming soon)Valentine’s Day BINGO with RiddlesSt. Patrick’s Day BINGO with RiddlesEaster BINGO with Riddles4th of July BINGO with Riddles (coming soon)Back to School BINGO with RiddlesHalloween BINGO with RiddlesThanksgiving BINGO with RiddlesWinter Holiday BINGO with RiddlesChrist
Preview of Digital Winter Party Games | Digital Winter Games | Digital Christmas Party

Digital Winter Party Games | Digital Winter Games | Digital Christmas Party

Easily plan a fun and engaging Winter Party with these digital Winter Party games! These digital winter activities are no prep, so they can be completed during centers, morning work, or as part of your Christmas party. There is more than enough to last the whole day and keep your little snowmen engaged! 6 digital Winter Party activities are included in both PowerPoint and Google Slides:These games are very similar to the games found in my digital Christmas Party pack, except they are all wint
Preview of Freeze Game - Christmas - Interactive Music Game and Printables

Freeze Game - Christmas - Interactive Music Game and Printables

Created by
Sweet Sounds
This Christmas-themed printable freeze game is an awesome large group game for a winter music assembly, or to print and put in your sub tub! This is a fun game to play in music class as a brain break or with double classes because there are no subs! (non-locomotor) My students beg to play this game!If you teach during the month of December, you know how crazy students can get! I teach this game just before Thanksgiving and then use it as a class reward during the holiday season. Then, during our
Preview of Map Skills: Hands On Maps Center Social Studies

Map Skills: Hands On Maps Center Social Studies

Hands-on maps center. Introduce beginning maps skills with this hands-on maps center. Includes: pictorial directions on set-up, "I can" directions, key, compass rose, task cards, interactive map pieces (picture cards of places in a community), differentiated recording sheets, map elements flip book in 3 levels and a "Build Your Own Compass Rose" activities.Use this map learning pack to teach kids beginning map skills! - Flip Books- Interactive "Build a Map" center- "Build Your Own Compass Ro
Preview of Geography Unit for Special Education

Geography Unit for Special Education

Make geography concepts accessible to all learners with this comprehensive unit tailored for special education teachers and parents of autistic students. Designed for easy understanding, the visually-based resources include multiple versions of each activity, ensuring differentiation for various learning styles. The unit features engaging games, printables, flashcards, and an adapted book, making geography an enjoyable social studies theme in your classroom. The extensive content includes flashc
Preview of Froggy Gets Dressed: File Folder Language Activities

Froggy Gets Dressed: File Folder Language Activities

This download includes four file folder games to use in companion with the book Froggy Gets Dressed by Jonathan London. Froggy Gets Dressed is a great book for preschool aged students during winter. It is a cumulative story, based around a central theme of getting dressed. Each time Froggy goes outside to play in the snow, he has forgotten an article of clothing. So, he has to come back inside and take everything off in order to put on what he was missing. The file folder games include: Dress
Preview of Color by Code Winter Math Activities Addition and Subtraction to 20 | 16 Pages

Color by Code Winter Math Activities Addition and Subtraction to 20 | 16 Pages

This is a fabulous set of WINTER themed worksheets for your students! They feature winter math addition and subtraction color by code activities to twenty. There are sixteen different color by number images which are fun and engaging for young students. These are great for morning work, independent math stations, for early finishers, and when you have a substitute!These are perfect for kindergarten, first grade, and beginning of the year second grade. They are a great way to review math facts a
Preview of Winter Write the Room- CVC Words | Phonics Activities

Winter Write the Room- CVC Words | Phonics Activities

This is a Winter write the room that is great for working on CVC Words! Students will look for the snow globe cards hanging around the room. This activity is very easy to differentiate by giving students different recording sheets. You can choose to have students write the beginning sound, write the middle sound, write the beginning and ending sound, or write the whole cvc word. This is low prep and perfect for your December, January, and February literacy centers! This is also included in my w
Preview of January Math Games | Math Center Games | Winter Math Games

January Math Games | Math Center Games | Winter Math Games

These games are perfect for students to play individually or with a partner! They are very low-prep also, just print and play with dice or a spinner! 10 games are included in this resource. The skills that are covered are as follows:- 10 Frames -Double 10 Frames -Subitizing -Number Bonds -Addition -Subtraction -Doubles Facts -Ordering NumbersHow to use these? - Print on white paper and let students use crayons or markers to play the games. The cute images are fun to color! - Print on colored pap
Preview of Tacky the Penguin Book Companion Reading Comprehension Craft & Writing

Tacky the Penguin Book Companion Reading Comprehension Craft & Writing

Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester is sure to have your students laughing. In this unit students will work on different reading strategies that connect with the story. This activity pack is filled with comprehension strategies to focus on the Common Core State Standards. There are also writing and word work activities. This goodie also includes a few fun math games too. Students will have fun creating the Tacky penguin craft too.Reading Strategies:InferencePredicting 3 optionsCharacters & Se
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Importance of learning social studies

Social studies offers valuable insights into history, geography, and much more. Social studies captivates students by providing them with perspectives from the past, present, and future, allowing them to understand history and navigate current events. It enables them to appreciate how previous generations have shaped their present reality. In essence, social studies opens their eyes to the vastness of life beyond their immediate surroundings.

Benefits of learning social studies

Learning social studies offers many benefits to students in terms of helping them develop a holistic understanding of the world. Namely, it helps them:

  • Learn about the achievements, challenges, perspectives, traditions, and customs of different societies
  • Evaluate information, analyze evidence, and make informed judgments about complex social, economic, and political issues
  • Become active, responsible, and engaged citizens
  • Comprehend global issues such as human rights, environmental sustainability, and economic disparities

By teaching social studies, teachers can help students develop critical thinking skills, foster civic engagement, and promote social awareness and responsibility.

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On TPT, social studies resources come in various formats, from worksheets to interactive notebooks to units. They can be used to enhance learning, assess a student’s mastery of social studies concepts, or to reteach a tricky topic. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, teaching and learning social studies will be so much easier.

Discover printable and digital social studies resources

If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable or digital social studies resources, TPT has an extensive array of instructional materials for every learning need, topic, or grade level. Whether you’re teaching students about America’s democratic process, the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., how to read maps, or World War II, we’ve got you covered.

Social studies resources on TPT offer informative lessons, engaging texts, intriguing facts, interactive puzzles, and enjoyable trivia games. These grade-specific resources ensure that all students can access age-appropriate materials that stimulate their minds and enhance their creative thinking abilities.

For instance, first graders can explore worksheets on senses and emotions, followed by a coloring page featuring Harriet Tubman. Older students can test their knowledge with quizzes on statistics and capital cities, then delve into the history of the Underground Railroad through an informational sheet or enjoy a word search focused on civil rights leaders. With such a wide variety of subjects and topics covered, our social studies pages provide endless opportunities for students to explore the world in captivating ways.

Frequently asked questions about teaching social studies

What types of social studies lessons are available on TPT?

There are many different types of history resources sold by Sellers on TPT. Some popular social studies lessons include U.S. history, world history, ancient history, geography, civics, and government.

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Educators can save time preparing history lessons with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply start a search for social studies resources on the TPT marketplace, and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find materials that've been proven to work in classrooms like yours. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of social studies lessons and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.