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All About Me Activities, Graphs, and More for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten
All About Me is loaded with fun, back to school activities to help your students get to know each other and their teachers during those first few weeks of school! It includes get to know you graphs, class books, posters, and mini books. These exciting activities will help you build a caring classroom community of learners who will support each other all year long! Each activity has a page of teacher tips to help you create the activity easily and ensure it will go smoothly. You can use these
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PreK - K
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Also included in: Social Skills (SEL) and Character Curriculum Bundle for Little Learners
National Parks Research Road Trip PBL Project Based Learning Writing Math
Do you love our National Parks and want to find a way to integrate reading, writing, math, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills in a fun, real-life context into your lessons? Consider using project-based learning in your classroom! In this PBL unit, students can plan a road trip to the national parks with their families, while also creating a realistic budget for their vacation.One of the benefits of this project-based learning unit is that it allows for student choice and personalizati
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3rd - 6th
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Patriotic Agamographs | Original, Unique Memorial Day Craft Activity
This patriotic agamograph set is a fun and unique activity to integrate art into your classroom. They complement your Memorial Day, Veteran's Day, Remembrance Day, September 11th, 4th of July, or any other patriotic celebrations. My original agamographs are often copied but never equalled! For patriotic holidays like Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Veterans Day, I have created an image of the American flag that morphs into soldiers. I have also included designs for September 11th, where the
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3rd - 8th
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All About Me Rainbows Back to School Activities
All About Me Rainbows are a back to school beginning of the year activity perfect for getting to know your students! This beginning of the school year activity will help you {and the class} learn about your new students and make your room bright and colorful.You will find out:how old your students aretheir birthday if they have siblings and their namesif they have pets and their namesfavorite colorfavorite foodwhat they want to be when they grow upfavorite animalfavorite bookfavorite subjectwh
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: Back to School Activities BUNDLE
END OF YEAR CRAFT ACTIVITY Memory Book Alternative Last Week of School Last Day
Are you looking for a non - memory book end of the school year activity that will have your students remembering your time together well into the future? This end of year craft project and writing activity also works great as gifts to students, and will be used regularly and brings families closer together. This flexible resource is a FAVORITE with families and teachers.Family Dinner Conversation Starters is a very popular end of the school year craft with great feedback from teachers like you.
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1st - 5th
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Country Study Report & Country Research Projects Countries Around the World
Are you working on a country study in your classroom? Completing a country research project for one of the many amazing countries around the world can be such a great way to open your students eyes to the diversity of countries, peoples, and cultures around the world. This fun, fresh and engaging country report resource is the perfect DIFFERENTIATED way to meet each student where they are and guide them as they present their research on countries around the world. Complete with 32 countries from
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2nd - 5th
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Flower Shop and Garden Shop Dramatic Play
Flower Shop Dramatic Play and Garden Shop is a fun theme you can do in your pretend or dramatic play center in the spring or when you are learning about plants. A teacher planning web breaks the theme down, week by week and includes a book list. There are labels and real classroom photos showing how to set up your flower shop or garden shop in your dramatic play center. Just print the labels, signs, and make the props. This theme integrates social, math, language, literacy, STEM, science, and fi
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PreK - K
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Also included in: Dramatic Play Bundle for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten
Build a Zoo Project Based Learning | Real World Math Project PBL
Math Project Based Learning, Math Enrichment & ChallengeThis math PBL project will have your students practicing real-world math applications while having a BLAST! This project based learning task is a great extension and enrichment activity for your early finishers. It allows them to act as a zookeeper building a brand new zoo in their town. They must make several decisions about the zoo, practicing several common core math standards along the way. Students will love acting as a zookeeper,
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2nd - 4th
Also included in: PBL Bundle - Project Based Learning Math Projects
Comic Strip Template Pages for Creative Assignments
Comic Strip Template Pages for Creative Assignments (Includes DIGITAL Version!)Use these comic strip page templates for creative assignments for your students. They can be used to assign comic/cartoon strips about the unit you are studying, a biography of an author or historical figure, or a creative book report. This download includes 30 total templates.Can be used with interactive notebooks, as well!NEWLY UPDATED to include a Google Slides version! Just click on the link in the PDF to make a c
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Not Grade Specific
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Project Based Learning Activity: Island Survival (PBL) Now for Google Classroom
Project Based Learning Activity: Island SurvivalThis project based learning (PBL) activity integrates elements of science, ELA, and social studies into a student-centered adventure that combines imagination, creativity, and problem solving skills as they try and survive mysteriously arriving on an island.There are 16 activities (1 page for almost each one) for students to complete. Each page involves a problem or idea they must solve, recreate, or answer. Pages can vary from writing, map skil
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2nd - 6th
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Black History Month Activity Collaborative African American Biographical "Quilt"
My Famous Faces® of African-American History "Quilt" project is the perfect whole-class activity to do during Black History Month or any time of the year! It connects the individual with the group using hexagons that will tessellate to create a large “quilt” collaboration poster featuring 40 influential African Americans and their biographies. The final poster has a ton of “wow factor” when complete, and I hope it will make a large impact on your students as they learn about these 40 influential
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1st - 8th
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Also included in: Tessellation Bundle | Use one every month!
State Reports Research Project Template | Informational Report Writing | Report
These State Report Information Report Pennant Banners come with 50 amazing pennants for displaying your research project on one of the fifty nifty United States. Perfect for any time of the year, these pennants are a great way to supplement your social studies instruction as well as help your students organize their research. Save time by integrating your social studies and ELA instruction! In addition to being excellent informational organizers for your students, these state pennant banners a
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3rd - 5th
Holiday Parent Gift - Directed Drawing Calendar - Updated Through 2026
Are you looking for a holiday parent and family gift your students can make to show their love this winter for Christmas, Hanukkah, Eid, and more? This directed drawing fridge calendar is full of kid-friendly puns and simple step-by-step drawings that will spread love all year round! This directed drawing calendar is designed with the fridge in mind, so it uses less space AND less paper: each month is only a HALF sheet of paper, so only 6 pages are needed per student. *NOW UPDATED FOR 2024 and 2
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K - 4th
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End of Year Math Project | Plan a Summer Vacation PBL Math Review
End of the Year Math Spiral Review PBL Project - Printable & Digital versions This math PBL project will have your students practicing real-world math applications while having a BLAST! This project based learning task is a great extension and enrichment activity for your early finishers. During this end of the year math review project, students get to plan out tons of fun activities for their summer break, while spiraling and practicing several math skills along the way! Students will love
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2nd - 4th
Also included in: PBL Math Enrichment Projects - Bundle #2
National Parks Research Activities End of Year Project Includes Yellowstone
This Visit a National Park research project will have your students so engaged, they won't want the activity to end! In this unit, students have the opportunity to plan a trip to a National Park, create a road map, write a research article, and so much more! What better way to have students use real-life math, reading, and writing skills than with this fun U.S. National Parks Activity? Now includes nonfiction reading passages and other bonus reading activities!Click HERE to SAVE 25% with the PB
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3rd - 6th
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Ocean Animal Crafts
Ocean Animal Crafts is just what you need to transform your classroom into an underwater adventure and develop those tricky fine motor skills too! Perfect for an ocean theme or unit. Included are 7 fun ocean animal crafts with direction pages, photographs, and pattern pieces. There are directions to create an ocean wall mural too! These are SIMPLE crafts designed for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten.These ocean crafts are included in Aquarium Dramatic Play so if you own this, you already have
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PreK - K
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Also included in: Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten Complete Curriculum BUNDLE
Plan a Road Trip Activities Real World Math Project Travel Brochure Vacation
This real world writing and math Plan a Road Trip project will have your students so engaged, they won't want the activity to end! In this unit, students the have opportunity to plan a trip and persuade others to visit their chosen destination! Now includes a bonus vacation journal and road trip activities!Click HERE to SAVE 25% with the PBL Activities Bundle for the Year!Click the PREVIEW above to see everything included.All of the hard work is done for you. Simply print the NO PREP pages, and
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3rd - 6th
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End of the Year Math Project Based Learning Activities 4th 5th Grade Math Review
Your students will love seeing how their math skills apply to the real world with these end of the year project based learning math review activities for 4th, 5th, and 6th grade! This Plan a Vacation to the Fair Math Project includes two differentiated packets of math enrichment activities to support project based learning. Each math review packet has 26 worksheets of activities to get 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students to apply their math skills to real-world scenarios. This math project is perfe
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4th - 6th
End of the Year Activities Math Project - Plan a Summer Vacation
End of the year activities should be fun. This math project will have your students excited about doing math. The students will plan a summer vacation using a budget sheet. They will have $2,500 to spend while on vacation with a friend. This is a great way to practice financial literacy with your kids. There is a Powerpoint attached with the flight information that is editable so you can change the flight prices and information to reflect where you live. Also includes a digital copy on Google™
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Math Project - Plan a Vacation Bundle
Smores Craft End of the Year How to Make a Smore Camping Theme Day Activities
This Smores Craft is a fun activity for a camping themed classroom, summer themed unit, or as a reward activity! Students will love cutting and pasting their very own smore craft while making one show stopping bulletin board. The patterns are kid friendly and easy to prep for teachers too! Now includes a two page coloring option for distance learning, centers, or morning work!Click HERE to SAVE by buying this resource as part of my Camping Crafts Bundle! What's included in this pdf: • A photo
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PreK - 2nd
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End of the Year PBL Activity | Plan a Tropical Vacation for your Teacher
Plan Your Teacher's Vacation: A Math Project for the End of the YearLooking for an engaging, differentiated, and challenging end of the year math activity to enrich your students? This is a perfect math review and challenge for the last weeks of school - students get to plan a well-deserved vacation for YOU, their teacher! Students will love getting to work within a budget to plan out your vacation - your travel, lodging, food and activity options. You'll love the enriched math practice they get
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2nd - 3rd
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Also included in: PBL Tasks & Math Challenges - Printable, Google Slides, Seesaw
Bugs & Insect Activities, Spring Research Reports Writing & Crafts Kindergarten
Bugs and Insect Research Reports with Crafts for Kindergarten. Perfect for your spring lessons! Research reports and crafts for 10 insects. Fully comprehensive projects that will get your kindergarten and first-grade students reading, writing, and creating amazing reports with crafts!Get this part of a bundle and save BIG:Insects Mega BundleClose Reads and Research Reports with Crafts BundleIncluded in this download is:10 insects including:ladybugsfirefliesgrasshoppersbutterfliescaterpillarsants
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PreK - 1st
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State Report Research Project - Templates for all 50 States
Are your students writing State Reports? This United States research project includes templates for all 50 states, making it easy to assign each student a different state (if desired.) In just one download, teachers can print a project for each state, as well as a common note-taking sheet that guides students through the research. The State Report is only 3 pages in length (giving students the confidence to complete it with excellence) but is packed with information. When done, students have
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3rd - 5th
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Guess Who? Back to School Night Bulletin Board Display Writing Activity
This "Guess Who?" writing activity makes the perfect interactive back to school bulletin board for Open House, Back to School Night, or Parent's Night. This template is geared toward first grade, second grade, and third grade students.Students write 1-4 clues about themselves on the top portion of the paper. Then they either paste a photo or draw a picture of themselves under the mystery flap. Parents and classmates can read the clues to help them guess the identity of the writer. Once they hav
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1st - 3rd
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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.
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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.
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