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4th grade social studies simulations $10 and up
Virtual Field Trip Growing Bundle, Holidays, Countries, Video Lessons
All the virtual field trips you'll need for the school year! This is a growing bundle, so you will get all future field trips I create for free! Get ready for fun holiday virtual field trips, adventures to different countries, and some fun celebrations!These virtual field trips are easy to prep, interactive, include videos, and companion activities. *Note: This resource includes links to YouTube videos (with no ads), so you will need an internet connection and access to YouTube!Each Virtual Fiel
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1st - 4th
Government Simulation
I always dread teaching the branches of government. Understandably students think it is dull and unrelated to their lives, well not anymore! I created this simulation pack to get students up and actively participating in the branches of government. This pack contains the following:Ten Day Lesson Plan that guides you through the entire simulation step by step using all the resources below.Eight Page PDF Presentation provides background information on the branches of government with keywords in re
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3rd - 5th
US States and Territories Virtual Field Trip Bundle (Google Earth Exploration)
Take your students on a virtual field trip to all 50 states and U.S. territories! States are organized by the 5 regions, to provide you with organized and complete virtual tours. Using a combination of Google Earth™ 360-degree views, video, informational text, and visuals, your students will travel to every state and the inhabited U.S. territories to learn about key facts and features from multiple perspectives. Please click the preview button to view more.This virtual field trip bundle covers:A
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4th - 6th
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4th Grade Idaho History Mysteries - Full Year of State Social Studies Activities
Teaching social studies is exciting! Your 4th-grade students will look forward to Idaho History lessons when they solve a mystery! This state history bundle addresses various Idaho Content Standards and aligns with topics in The Idaho Adventure textbook. Hear about this Idaho State History Social Studies Bundle from educators like you!⭐️ “I love how all the lessons are tied together as a journey. My daughter loved getting the postcards and earning the badges with each lesson, coloring them, and
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4th
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Ultimate Entrepreneurship & Business Mastery Bundle: Shark Tank to Stock Market
Experience ALL of my Entrepreneurial, Business Creation, Marketing, Design Thinking, Stock Market and Investing Projects currently available in my TpT Store! Each activity is easily sharable or assignable on Google Classroom or your LMS, and many include printable PDF files for your convenience.In this Bundle you will receive EVERYTHING that is currently listed in The Edpreneur Academy TpT Store! That's 25 activities and projects, enough for 1 full school year of business creation and entreprene
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4th - 12th
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Gamification Grading Spreadsheet (Google)
Development of this google docs spreadsheet took over 400 hours of work. Save yourself time and just buy this one. Anyone can use this web based google spreadsheet from anywhere. You can use this google spreadsheet that I have developed to calculate just about anything. Filled with complex formulas that make this a very user friendly document. With a master sheet that you import the students' names and the rest is taken care for you. This comes with two types of spreadsheets and a video tutorial
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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THE COMPLETE COLLECTION! Every product in my TPT store - growing bundle!
EVERY PRODUCT, EVER!Includes all current products AND any future uploads! Grab it now at the lowest price!! Bundle price will increase each time a new product is added to my store.My products are suitable for K - 5th students!⭐️NEW⭐️ MEMPHIS, TN MLK Virtual Field Trip added 1/28/2024⭐️NEW⭐️ Monthly Memory Book Writing Pages added 1/26/2024If you already have purchased some of my products or bundles, email tpt and they can refund you the price you've already paid if you purchase this growing bund
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K - 5th
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Map Skills Activities | Project Based Learning
Take your kiddos on this engaging 10 lesson project based learning simulation that teaches map skills. The simulation scenario involves an expedition group that has gotten lost somewhere in North America. Students will learning various map skills focusing on using US maps. Your students will work in collaborative groups completing activities and earning points to build a helicopter on the last day of the simulation to save the expedition team.The simulation also contains a study guide, assessmen
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3rd - 4th
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Social Studies Economics Pack! Shark Tank, Business Plan, Market Day and MORE!
This 42 Page Economics Pack Includes:• 16 Vocabulary Posters• Interactive Notebook Tasks• Graphic Organizers• Wants and Needs Sort• Goods and Services Sort• Producers and Consumers Sort• High and Low Demand Sort• Vocabulary Summarizing Activity• Supply and Demand Auction Lesson and Printables• Imports and Exports T-shirt Lesson and Printables• Market Day Activity Description• Market Day Parent Letter• Market Day Storefront example• Business Plan Writing• Shark Tank Pitch Writing• Shark Tank Lett
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2nd - 4th
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Mock Election and Voting Simulation Unit
Let’s Get Out and Vote! This election simulation takes students from registering with paper applications or online, to researching the candidates, making campaign signs, voting in a mock election paper-based or online; you decide! Students collect the votes in a graph to decided who the winnign candidate is. Its a fun way to teach civil responsibility and learn about the election process. This unit is organized to be completed in 4-5 days. It has a plan at the beginning of each day along with
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3rd - 8th
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Virtual Field Trip Bundle-Distance Learning- Made for Google Slides
Let's take many Virtual Field Trips this year!!! This No Wheels Field Trip Collection will make this the best year ever! Got you covered for CHRISTMAS and BEYOND! 12 trips in all!The trips included all take varying times so that you can use them when you need them most! To get an idea of the amount of time needed for each trip, notice the amount of links included. Saying that, any trip can be modified or added to so that you have the perfect learning experience!Already included in this growing b
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K - 5th
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ARCHEOLOGY JAMESTOWN: Historical Digs-Jamestown's Archaeological Discovery!
Introducing the Ultimate Jamestown Settlement Archaeology Adventure - a comprehensive 3-day lesson plan designed to transport your students back in time to the historic Jamestown settlement of 1607 to 1620, right from the comfort of your classroom! This engaging and immersive educational resource, available on Teachers Pay Teachers, is your ticket to bringing history to life like never before.**Key Features:**1. **Student Notes Sheets:** Your students will have access to carefully crafted note s
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4th - 12th
Cave Paintings and Petroglyphs: Museum Bundle
Set up an enriching classroom museum where your students can explore ancient rock art. Step-by-step directions are included to help you (or volunteers) make plaster artifacts for your students to use. Artifacts include:
*mortar (you'll need to supply a rock for the pestle)
*stone "rock" your students can carve into a bowl
*plaster petroglyphs
*a replica of the "Blombos Stone"
*a replica of a stone carved with cupules
*several stones for your students to carve on
*Museum Display Cards, patterne
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3rd - 8th
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Money Matters: A Real-World Simulation for Upper Elementary Students
A creative problem-solving unit that simulates real life. Students are faced with real-world decisions related to money management, budgeting, jobs, taxes and bills.Students are randomly assigned families and jobs. They then are presented with real-life situations and decisions that they must make (just as their parents do).Creative problem-solving, decision-making, Socratic seminar, and real-world dilemmas are incorporated into this unit.Printables: Everything you need is in this unit. It h
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4th - 6th
National Park Virtual Field Trips BUNDLE
Take your students on these engaging and FUN virtual field trips to the U.S. National Parks! These resources have everything you could need when it comes to teaching your students about the national parks and it requires little to no prep at all. The presentations are editable in PowerPoint and include pictures, videos, and great information! ⭐ INCLUDES:Hawai'i VolcanoesYosemiteZionYellowstoneGrand CanyonRocky MountainGlacier AcadiaJoshua TreeDenaliEvergladesGrand TetonArchesBryce CanyonOlympicI
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2nd - 6th
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The Island - Government and Economics PBL
The Island is a project based learning experience where students “live the experience” of discovering and being stranded on an island. Through this simulation, they will create fictional characters. These characters are then put into situations and incidents that create the plot. As the plot unfolds, students will experience the positive and negatives of a dictatorship, monarchy, and democracy. They will also evaluate needs versus wants and the basics of an economy. Constructed for 3rd and 5th
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2nd - 6th
Oregon Trail Simulation that Uses Math Probability Skills to Power the Wagons
This is an Oregon Trail simulation with a math twist sure to help students learn about life along the Oregon Trail and the landmarks along the trail. Students work in groups and their wagon train will advance if they correctly solve the math probability game together. It’s a great way to enhance your westward expansion and pioneer life studies. Oregon Trail Simulation Packet (126 pages, PDF)· ALL Teacher directions including photos, hints and tips· Weekly schedule· You determine the length of yo
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3rd - 5th
Virtual Field Trip Bundle #2-Distance Learning-Google
Let's take many Virtual Field Trips this year!!! This No Wheels Field Trip Collection will make this the best year ever! These field trips focus on following STEAM careers at their place of work! So far each new trip just gets better and better!!! I literally am having the time of my life planning and researching these trips! Every single trip is a trip that I will personally use with students in the upcoming weeks! Students LOVE them! I hope yours do, too! You will also find seasonal field trip
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2nd - 5th
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NGSS:
4-LS1-1
, 3-LS4-3
, 5-ESS3-1
, 2-LS4-1
, 3-LS4-2
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Zombies Invade Texas Geography 4th and 7th grade (PBL)
Zombie virus has been reported in Kazakhstan! Your students will be given a fictitious FEMA memo to read. It details the beginnings of a contagion that has the ability to destroy the populations world wide.
Your students, acting as FEMA teams will have to study the local resources to develop a cohesive class plan for evacuation, housing refugees and procuring supplies. The project has the possibility to be as detailed or in depth as you want it to be.
The bundle is divided into two parts
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Texas History, 7th Grade Curriculum Bundle- Year-long
Game of Life- money simulation
Are you looking for a real life simulation to teach your students about life and money?This is a life size version of the board game Game of Life. Help your students learn how to budget, know when to save and spend money, and practice making real life decisions. Students will practice researching, reading, writing, planning, organizing, addition, and subtraction in this activity.When you buy this product, it will only be a one single page document. This document has all of the other materials yo
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3rd - 6th
BC Grade 5 Social Studies
The perfect bundle for Grade 5 Social Studies in BC. This covers 2 big ideas from the new Grade 5 Social Studies Curriculum. All activities invoke the curricular competencies of Social Studies because they engage students in critical thinking and inquiry. Big Ideas Covered:Canadian institutions and government reflect the challenge of our regional diversity.Immigration and multiculturalism continue to shape Canadian society and identity.What is included:Immigration Family Stories Project: Studen
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4th - 6th
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Mock Election Day, Fun Democracy, Civics and Government Role-Play Bundle
This bundle set allows Teachers and Students to enact their very own mock Election process in their own classroom, to help students understand democracy, civics, the importance of voting and that…EVERY VOTE COUNTS!***Check out the reviews on this bundle set. It's a real hit with elementary students and their Teachers!***This mock election bundle gives students an opportunity to better equip them for later in life (when they’re old enough to vote for real themselves) by helping them to learn all
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1st - 6th
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Reader's Theater Bundle of Ohio Social Studies Scripts! (4th grade)
A perfect resource for your 4th grade Ohio Social Studies classroom! Make history come alive with these 6 Reader’s Theater scripts taken from the pages of Ohio’s rich history! These original plays contain up to 20 parts each featuring various reading levels to ensure whole class participation, differentiation, and engagement. Students will actively participate in key Ohio Social Studies standards such as the War of 1812, Tecumseh, the Northwest Ordinance, Ohio becoming a State, Immigration, a
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3rd - 6th
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Immigration Simulation- Ellis Island/ Angel Island
Each student will either be assigned an immigrant or customs officer during this simulation. There are 12 unique immigrant background stories. Immigrants will fill out a passport form with questions from their backstories. Customs officers will then decide based on the information written on the passports whether the immigrant will go to America, the medical wing or be held as a political prisoner. The simulation will end with a discussion about the experience on a google PP. This PP also provid
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Grades:
4th - 11th
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Find Social Studies - History resources | TPT
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.
Teaching with social studies resources
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.
How do I find social studies lessons on TPT?
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.
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