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3rd grade social studies Common Core 3.MD.A.1 resources
Pioneer Life | Westward Expansion | California Gold Rush | Oregon Trail
Looking for resources to have Pioneer Days in your classroom? Look no further than this complete unit on pioneers, including the California Gold Rush and the Oregon Trail. This unit includes activities to stretch out Pioneer Days to a full week or pick and choose what you have time for in the classroom. INCLUDES BOTH A PRINT AND MADE FOR GOOGLE SLIDES DIGITAL VERSION.*************************************************************************************************************INCLUDES THE FOLLO
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2nd - 4th
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PLAN A CRUISE Vacation Budget Math Project Country Research 4th Grade Enrichment
This Plan A Cruise learning experience lets students become travel agents and design a fun-filled vacation for their classmates. They will use important skills like research, planning, time management, budgeting, and organization to create their one-of-a-kind trip. Each page in their cruise plan book requires students to use academic skills to plan their trip of a lifetime.To complete this project, students will work through the following activities:WORDS TO KNOWThis page includes important word
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3rd - 4th
Also included in: 4th Grade Math Projects The End of the Year Plan A Cruise & Plan A Party
Country Research 3rd 4th Grade Math Geography Enrichment Project 7 Continents
This is a cross-curricular learning project that integrates social studies, math, geography, research, and writing. It is a great activity for the end of the year or enrichment any time!To complete this project, students travel to different continents as they take a world tour of six different countries. Through their travels, they will learn the location of these countries along with important facts about the culture. The countries students will visit and learn about include:AustraliaBrazilChin
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3rd - 4th
Also included in: Travel Project Bundle Country Research PBL STEM Challenges
Creepy Carrots FULL DAY of Lesson Plans for Upper Elementary
This product is everything the busy classroom has been looking for! It is perfect for your class during Halloween week, but doesn't explicitly mention the holiday. You'll receive a FULL day of lesson plans based on Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds (a lesson for reading, writing, math, science, AND Social Studies!)How does this work?Your download will come with 3 files: student activity sheets, teacher lesson plans, and PDF with Google Slide™ links. Simply print, gather your materials, and GO! No
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3rd - 5th
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The Amazing Race STEM Challenge/Integrated Lesson
This 56-page packet includes:
*A 11-page student booklet for students to record where they have traveled and to work out their challenges
*10 “stops” (40 pages) on the race that will take students to a new landmark to learn about a landform and complete a math challenge!
I would recommend printing out a packet of the recording pages for each student! This helps keep everyone accountable for their learning! Present the race to students and then even show a clip of the show “The Amazing Race”
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2nd - 8th
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Independence Day | 4th of July Activities | Patriotic Math and Reading
These Independence Day / patriotic math and reading activities are perfect for practicing standards around the 4th of July or other patriotic holiday. The 40+ pages include a variety of math and ELA standards geared toward the 3rd-4th grade classroom, but could be used with other grade levels. Use pages around the 4th of July holiday, with a homeschool group, during your patriotic study of the United States, or in conjunction with a study of the holidays. ✨Save 20% with the purchase of the Patri
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3rd - 4th
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Basic Concepts Practice and Review: Literacy, Math, Science, Social Studies
These review and practice task cards are perfect for reviewing important subject matter at any point during the school year. They are designed for second and third -graders.Why use Basic Concepts: Literacy, Math, Science, Social Studies | Task Cards? Research tells us that children need to frequently review what they’ve been taught in order for the information to go into their long-term memory. These sets of review cards are based on “general knowledge” information for second and third grades. H
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2nd - 4th
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Titanic Activities | Comprehension | Passenger Biographies | Conspiracy Theories
The mysterious events surrounding the sinking of the Titanic continue to be a source of fascination for many. Your students will be completely engaged as they use these enrichment activities to delve deeper into the story around the Titanic. This cross curricular resource includes passenger bios, map skills practice, reading a table questions, elapsed time practice and more!In this resource you will find:Titanic Book List- A list of engaging books for children all about the Titanic.Life in 1912-
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3rd - 5th
Five Senses Unit Study: Two Week Integrated Unit! (Great 4 Interactive Notebook)
This Five Senses unit is the perfect accompaniment to your traditional science curriculum, incorporating music, games, language arts, center activities, math, social studies, and much more! Lessons draw from favorite children’s literature, including Miss Nelson is Missing by Harry Allard, D.W. the Picky Eater by Marc Brown, and poetry by Jack Prelutsky. Additional suggested resources are provided to supplement science content if needed.
This integrated unit utilizes original foldable activity
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K - 4th
Yellowstone National Park Treasure Hunt Escape Room: Math Real World Questions
This escape the park activity is great for a variety of ages. Students will have an hour to complete all the questions to find a treasure. They will have to solve math problems with real world application in order to open separate lock boxes. If they don't make it in an hour the park will be closed. I have included multiple sets of questions that could be used for a variety of skill levels. You will need manilla folders to represent your lock boxes. The questions include a variety of readiness s
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3rd - 8th
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Digital Escape Room | US Geography History | Social Studies Escape Room
This social studies focused digital escape room challenges students to escape their classroom to BREAKOUT! Solve multiple US Geography and Social Studies related challenges. Students must find and solve all the clues in order to unlock the five locks and escape the school!!During the escape room, students may work individually, collaboratively with partners, or in groups. There are five different clues to search, find, and solve in the classroom. Students will use problem-solving skills while re
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3rd - 9th
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Plan A Camping Trip *Printable & Digital* PBL
A printable fun filled multidisciplinary project that will challenge students through real-life experiences. Have you ever been on a camping trip? You don't just wing it and go, do you? No, you spend countless hours planning, researching, packing, and setting up activities with a set budget you must adhere too. With this project students will get a first hand experience planning a camping trip, just like we do in real life. Use this as an early finisher project or to review math concepts. You c
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2nd - 5th
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Spring Break FACTS CLOSE READING 5 LEVELED PASSAGES Main Idea Fluency Check TDQs
LEVELED PASSAGES! CHOOSE EACH STUDENT'S READING LEVEL. ALL STUDENTS WILL HAVE SAME CONTENT, VOCAB, AND QUESTIONS!ALL READERS COVERED! INFORMATIONAL TEXT:Differentiated Curriculum 5 levels Main IdeaFluency CheckClose ReadingTDQ's(REAL)Picture with Annotation and ELA QuestionEXTRA TDQ's Sheet to print on the backSAME CONTENT/SAME VOCABALL-ON-ONE SHEET TO Save Time and Paper!Print-N-GoNO FLUFF-Save printer inkELA aligned and LISTEDUse for HW, whole/individual instruction, handoutsPerfect file for s
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2nd - 5th
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Plan A Road Trip *Digital & Printable PBL
A printable fun filled multidisciplinary project that will challenge students through real-life experiences. Have you ever been on a road trip? You don't just wing it and go, do you? No, you spend countless hours planning, researching, packing, and setting up activities with a set budget you must adhere too. With this project students will get a sense of what it is like to plan a road trip, just like we do in real life. Use this as an early finisher project or to review math concepts. You can cu
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2nd - 5th
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World Cup Soccer Break the Code reading, geography, and math - DIGITAL or PRINT
An engaging logic activity with 4 codes to crack. This World Cup Soccer activity incorporates many 3rd grade skills:~ research~ reading comprehension~ interpreting data~ elapsed time word problems~ numbers and operations~ geography (identifying what continent World Cup host countries are on)It is a perfect independent extension for the student who is finished early students hard to motivate, or to use as a partner activity to help promote a cooperative classroom environment. Low-prep makes it
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3rd
3rd Grade September Learning League Adventures- MATH BUNDLE
The Learning League has mysteries to solve that require the use of your students' math skills!! These math problems have been tailored specifically for 3rd graders in the month of September, so give your classroom explorers a chance to review their knowledge and simultaneously go on an adventure! You get the added bonus of incorporating cross-curricular elements into your class when you purchase these resources! Half of these mysteries focus on science, and the other half have a social studies t
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2nd - 3rd
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3rd Grade Autumn MATH Learning League Adventure *GROWING BUNDLE*
The Learning League has mysteries to solve that require the use of your students' math skills!! These math problems have been tailored specifically for 3rd graders in the fall, so give your classroom explorers a chance to review their knowledge and simultaneously go on an adventure!You get the added bonus of incorporating cross-curricular elements into your class when you purchase these resources! This bundle includes mysteries with SCIENCE AND SOCIAL STUDIES themes, but if you want to focus on
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2nd - 3rd
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Clocks, Coins, and Dollar Bills Identification Games
This activity will help your students identify coins, dollar bills, and clocks. For some students it is hard to know which is a dime and which is a quarter. This set of games can give your students the practice they need to learn those coins.Identify and cover games are a fun way to learn or review skills. In this set you will see games that help students identify the coins, the clocks, and the dollar bills. There are four different game boards for the clock showing hour and half hour, four m
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1st - 3rd
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3rd Grade September MEGA Bundle- Math & Reading Adventures
The Learning League has mysteries to solve that require the use of your students' math skills!! These math problems have been tailored specifically for 3rd graders in the month of September, so give your classroom explorers a chance to review their knowledge and simultaneously go on an adventure!You get the added bonus of incorporating cross-curricular elements into your class when you purchase these resources! Half of these mysteries focus on science, and the other half have a social studies th
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2nd - 3rd
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3rd Grade AUTUMN Math & Social Studies Learning League Adventures
The Learning League has mysteries to solve that require the use of your students' math skills!! These math problems have been tailored specifically for 3rd graders in the fall, so give your classroom explorers a chance to review their knowledge and simultaneously go on an adventure!You get the added bonus of incorporating cross-curricular elements into your class when you purchase these resources! This bundle includes mysteries with SOCIAL STUDIES themes, but if you're interested in infusing sci
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2nd - 3rd
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Amusement Park Design Project: A project to review 3rd grade math standards
This project will have your students highly engaged in designing an amusement park. They will also be reviewing all standards/concepts taught in 3rd grade math! This is modeled from the Florida Standards, but they are extremely close to Common Core, so will work for most!! Also included is a rubric to score their work.
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3rd - 4th
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Third Grade Homeschooling Curricula
Download features:This is an outline, or pace calendar, where learning coaches will align their resources to meet Third Grade expectations. These are not worksheets, but guides for each subject, from what student(s) will learn in each unit, how many weeks need to be spend per unit, what type of knowledge and skills must be transmitted to the student to gain experience and pass third grade without sacrificing educational value. Easy to use and integrate on any calendar with any resource. Resource
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3rd
December Math Learning League Adventures- 3rd Grade *GROWING BUNDLE*
The Learning League has mysteries to solve that require the use of your students' math skills!! These math questions have been tailored specifically for 3rd graders in the month of December, so give your classroom explorers a chance to review their knowledge and simultaneously go on an adventure!You get the added bonus of incorporating cross-curricular elements into your class when you purchase these resources! Half of these mysteries focus on science, and the other half have a social studies th
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2nd - 3rd
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November Math Learning League Adventures- 3rd Grade *GROWING BUNDLE*
The Learning League has mysteries to solve that require the use of your students' math skills!! These math questions have been tailored specifically for 3rd graders in the month of November, so give your classroom explorers a chance to review their knowledge and simultaneously go on an adventure!You get the added bonus of incorporating cross-curricular elements into your class when you purchase these resources! Half of these mysteries focus on science, and the other half have a social studies th
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2nd - 3rd
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