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1st grade Back to School social studies resources for Easel Activities
Class Reward | Incentive Chart | Whole Group Incentive Jar| Boho Themed
Are you looking for an easy-to-use whole-class incentive system? Use this printable smiley jar incentive chart as part of your classroom management plan. This incentive jar will reinforce positive behavior and provide a visual cue to your students. These BOHO color-themed Smileys will match any class decor.Now available in two b/w text options.You can use this in multiple ways. Whole group: give your class smileys when they receive whole group compliments, do an extraordinary job at activities
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K - 3rd
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Scissor Skills Cutting Practice with Alphabet Tracing
Make learning scissor skills and cutting practice fun and practical by integrating it with the alphabet and prewriting skills. Our fun activity pages are ideal - just print and you're set!I've added some basic 'alphabet' content to this set to maximise the learning potential on each page!Students will cut around a large rectanglecut various lines from the edge at varying lengths, angles and shapetrace a picture to match a letter of the alphabetcolor the picturewrite the focus letter in upper and
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: Scissor Skills Cutting Practice Bundle
Kindergarten End of Year Reading Comprehension Passages, Questions & Worksheets
This Reading Comprehension packet is ideal for use at the end of the year in kindergarten or the beginning of first grade. Working through these passages, students who are reading at Guided Reading Level D (DRA Level 4) become skilled at comprehending simple passages and answering text-based questions. This resource included a link for use in Google Slides.Each page is ready for use with Easel by TpT™.A full-color printable version is included. An ink-saving black and white printable version
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K - 1st
Digital Calendar Math - for Google Slides, PowerPoint, & Lumio - Calendar Math
Use this digital calendar math in your primary classroom setting or for remote learning. Pre-loaded onto Google Slides, PowerPoint, Easel by TPT, and Lumio by SMART. Also includes a printable practice sheet for students to practice/reinforce skills. Replace your wall calendar and save bulletin board space by doing all your calendar math digitally! This is a fun and interactive way to do calendar with students digitally each day. It is easy to customize the slides to meet the needs of your clas
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PreK - 2nd
A Letter From Your Teacher on the First Day of School Activity
Want a meaningful back to school activity after reading aloud A Letter From Your Teacher: On the First Day of School? This book companion (created by the author, Shannon Olsen) is a booklet of writing prompts (or a “letter”) for students to write in response to their teacher after listening to the story. The pages can be copied and stapled together in a packet, or however you might choose to bind them. You can use all of the pages provided, or just pick and choose specific ones you want to inclu
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: A Letter From Your Teacher on the First Day of School Activities Bundle
Back to School First Week of School and First Day of School Activities
First week of school activities and back to school activities for First Grade / Grade One / or advanced Kindergarten. These are great first week of school activities to start on the first day of school and to finish up throughout the first busy week of back to school! Start your back to school time with engaging activities! Read more below:If you teach second grade, try out the First Week of Second Grade PackSAVE time and money with the Back to School BundlePlease note, although there are over
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K - 1st
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Also included in: Back to School Bundle of Essentials
Emergency Sub Plans 2nd Grade Substitute Teacher Binder No Prep Plans For Fall
Looking for emergency sub plans to fill your sub tub this year? Emergency sub packets are there for you when you are just too sick to go into work. This set of common core aligned substitute plans makes being out easy for you and for your guest teacher. Just print and go! No more staying up all night writing plans when you are sick! This resource includes 4 complete days of sub-plan packets suitable for a 1st or 2nd-grade classroom. Download the preview for an in-depth look into this time-saving
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1st - 2nd
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Who Am I? - Community Helpers Powerpoint Game #1
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
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PreK - 2nd
Also included in: Kindergarten Games Bundle
Black History Month Bulletin Board Project Posters and Activities Pennants
Looking for a unique way to commemorate Black History Month in your classroom? Take your educational approach to the next level this February with these Black History Month Bulletin Board Project Posters and Activities.If you've only been discussing the usual figures like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman, it's time to expand your students' horizons. This Black History Month Project delves into the lives and contributions of up to 123 different influential Black America
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1st - 4th
Also included in: Black History Month Bulletin Board Project Posters Activities BUNDLE
Map Skills Worksheets & Performance Task | Print & Easel
Practice using a map key, a compass rose, and a scale to read, interpret, and create basic maps! These printables are perfect for teaching geography or quick map skills assessments in first grade, second grade, or third grade! The following print-and-go map skills activities are included:Map Vocabulary Foldable: Students cut along the dotted lines to create three flaps and then fold along the solid line. Under each flap, students define the vocabulary word shown on the top of the flap. Words inc
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1st - 3rd
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2nd Grade Beginning of the Year Activity - Back to School Math Mystery Game
Back to School Math Mystery: the Case of The School Invaders -2nd Grade Edition. Students must review math skills from the previous grade to help get rid of the stinky, slimy Geometron aliens invading Mathhattan Elementary School! Easy prep! Printable PDF - print, copy, solve!Digital worksheets with Google Slides or EASELStudents must use their math skills to unlock clues. The clues will help them eliminate locations to find where the aliens' transponder is! ------------------------------------
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: 2nd Grade Math Mystery Holiday Bundle: Fun Math Review Activities
The Most Magnificent Thing Read Aloud - Back to School STEM Activities
These Most Magnificent Thing read aloud activities will teach students about growth mindset and perseverance. These back to school lesson plans will last a week and include reading comprehension activities and a STEM activity with a fun challenge.Our interactive read-aloud lesson plan is designed to be taught over multiple lessons. This allows students an opportunity to dive deeper into the text, make connections to the characters and events and most importantly, fall in love with the story.Each
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1st - 2nd
Also included in: Back to School Read Alouds Reading Activities - September
Community Helpers Workers Activities 1st Grade Kindergarten Social Studies
This set of activities will help students understand workers in their community and the jobs they do. Includes workers, jobs and occupations, vehicles, and city services.Includes:Helpers and Jobs Sorting CardsMatch the picture of the worker with the correct name and job description. These work well as a whole group pocket-chart activity. Includes 26 cards.Workers, Vehicles, and City Buildings CardsThese make a fun matching activity for young learners or vocabulary development for your ESL/ELL st
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PreK - 1st
Also included in: Kindergarten Math & Reading YEAR LONG BUNDLE 1300+ Pages
Christmas Around the World Passages - Winter Holidays Around the World Research
Want to teach about Christmas and Holidays Around the World, but you're short on time? These reading comprehension passages are a quick way to teach your students about different ways winter holidays are celebrated while practicing their reading skills.These Holiday Around the World reading passages introduce students to how holidays are celebrated in different countries. Ten different countries that celebrate Christmas plus Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Diwali are included. There is one passage page,
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1st - 3rd
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Continents and Oceans Geography Research, Study Cards, Quizzes | Print & Easel
This seven continents and major oceans geography resource includes: Continent Student Book - A cover page, label by number student maps, and pages picturing an outline of each of the 7 continents with space for students to write three facts about the continent are included.Continent and Ocean Quizzes - Both continent and ocean options come with and without word banks. Answer keys are included.Continent Study Cards - Each study card features a picture of the continent and the continent’s name.
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1st - 3rd
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Maps and Globes - 7 Continents and Oceans- Landforms Map Skills Activity
This interactive and engaging resource will help your students learn all about Map Skills, Globes, Continents, Landforms, and Communities! These Map Skills activities will not only have your students learning the importance of locating on places on maps and globes, they’ll also be learning about constructing and reading a simple map, using cardinal directions and identifying map symbols. Lastly, they'll also compare and contrast basic land use in urban, suburban, and rural environments.This Maps
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1st - 3rd
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Scissor Skills Haircut Worksheets
Cutting practice and scissor skills just got a whole lot more fun with our haircut worksheet pack! Each of the 40 haircut pages give students different line styles to cut with increasing complexity. When students have finished the cutting activity they can also color, cut and glue the page into a bright backing paper for a fun classroom display of haircuts!Perfect for:kindergarten and preschool learnersremediation with students who are challenged by cuttingfine motor developmentprinting on paper
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: Scissor Skills Cutting Practice Bundle
Getting to Know You Activities All About Me Back to School DOLLAR DEAL
Getting to know you activities for back to school. Building a strong classroom community is critical to having a successful school year. Take those Kindergarten, First Grade and Second Grade Back to School jitters and replace them with Fun and Interactive Activities for the first week of school. Full of Community Building, Teamwork, Growth Mindset, and Getting to Know You activities, this resource is sure to help your students start the school year off with excitement and anticipation!50 Pages o
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Back to School Activities BUNDLE
1st Grade Beginning of the Year Math Game - Back to School Math Mystery
Back to School Math Mystery: the Case of The School Invaders - 1st Grade Edition. Students must review math skills from the previous grade to help get rid of the stinky, slimy Geometron aliens invading Mathhattan Elementary School! (Please note that the Grade 1 math mysteries contain a smaller possibilities list, and include profile pictures with the information).Easy prep!Printable PDF - print, copy, solve!Digital worksheets with Google Slides or EASEL.Students must use their math skills to un
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: 1st Grade Math Mystery Holiday Bundle: Fun Math Review Activities
2nd Grade Math Pre-Assessment Beginning of Year Math Test Intervention Tool
Use this printable pre assessment as a Beginning of School Year Grade 2 Math Intervention Tool. This diagnostic assessment assesses first grade foundational readiness skills, provides baseline data on new second grade students, and helps you check for understanding before you began any instruction. The pre-assessments were implemented to determine what foundational skills students possessed when entering a grade level. It is best used within the first week of school. Get it today!☝ Better yet,
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1st - 2nd
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Beginning of the Year Activities Back to School Speech Therapy Bingo Riddle Game
Welcome back to school activities with fun rhyming riddles! This first day of school game sneaks in making inferences, critical thinking, rhyme, and vocabulary too. With 30 boards, it’s perfect for your whole class, first day of speech therapy or a fun esl back to school activity your students will love.Easy to differentiate, this resource will become your favorite first week of school activities for kindergarten through 4th grade and beyond.You can use these beginning of the year activities in
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1st - 4th
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Read Across America Week Dr. Seuss Activities The Places You'll Go Craft Project
Students will love creating this Hot Air Balloon Flip Up Craft for Read Across America Week or after reading the book “Oh, The Places You’ll Go" by Dr. Seuss. Simply, print pages on different colored cardstock and let the students mix and match to create a one-of-a-kind hot air balloon.What's included:►Templates to create a 4-page Hot Air Balloon Flip Up Craft►Different questions and options for each page►Colorful Poster with a quote from the book►A separate page with additional Comprehension Q
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1st - 4th
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The Invisible Boy Read Aloud - Back to School Activities - Reading Comprehension
These The Invisible Boy read aloud activities will help your students learn how to include others.Our interactive read-aloud lesson plan is designed to be taught over multiple lessons. This allows students an opportunity to dive deeper into the text, make connections to the characters and events and most importantly, fall in love with the story.Each lesson provides students a different purpose for revisiting the text, talking about it and responding to it.To teach these lessons you will need:The
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1st - 2nd
Also included in: Back to School Read Alouds Reading Activities - September
My Mouth Is a Volcano Activities, Read Aloud Lessons Plans & Behavior Chart
Interactive Read Alouds are an essential part of every classroom. This book companion for My Mouth Is a Volcano by Julia Cook includes read aloud activities and lesson plans that make them easy and fun! It includes print-and-go lesson plans, easy-to-follow directions, worksheets, mini-charts, and controlling your volcano anchor chart printables. Perfect for back-to-school time, or to review throughout the year! Support your students with a deeper understanding of this book through vocabulary,
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K - 2nd
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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.
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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.
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