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Preschool critical thinking social studies interactive whiteboards
BACK TO SCHOOL BOOM CARDS ACTIVITY KINDERGARTEN GAME GOOD & BAD CHOICES SORT
GOOD CHOICES VS BAD CHOICES BOOM CARDS GAME (BACK TO SCHOOL ACTIVITIES K-2)This fun digital game is perfect for back to school and is specifically aimed to help kids identify good and bad choices. It contains 34 playable cards and could also be used throughout the year to reinforce good and bad choices. Kids have to look at each picture, determine if the action depicted is a good or bad choice and click the corresponding answer (thumbs up for good choice and thumbs down for bad choice). This
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PreK - 3rd
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INSTANT DIGITAL SOCIAL STUDIES Teaching Slides: The Bundle
** THIS BUNDLE IS PART OF THE DIGITAL VIP BUNDLE HERE **This bundle includes teaching slides to take your social studies instruction not only DIGITAL but also ENGAGING!This packet includes 50 lessons aka covers 50 academic days!The INSTANT Social Studies Digital Teaching Slides are designed for your whole-group social studies core instruction. This bundle includes 5 sets of 10 lessons. The lessons are designed for 15-20 minutes. The lessons can be taught within 1 session or longer if needed. The
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PreK - 1st
Community Helpers {Google Slides™/Classroom™}
This is a digital (Google Slides™) pack all about community helpers! There are many fun, interactive activities included. These activities are Google Slides™ resources that can support your students with distance learning classrooms (i.e. Google Classroom™). You can also use them on your Interactive Whiteboard for use in your classroom!This pack has 6 different activities (multiple slides for each) and is suitable for Pre-K, Kindergarten, Grade 1 and Grade 2 students.What's Included?anchor ch
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PreK - 2nd
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Social Studies BUNDLE: Boom Cards™ (distance learning)
Are you looking for a way to reach your special needs students while you are distance learning? These fun, interactive task cards are just what you need to engage your students while they are practicing life skills. It can be used as a whole group activity, as a learning center, as an independent activity, and more!SAVE MONEY ~ you are saving 30% by purchasing the bundle instead of the individual cards! (it's like getting almost 5 BOOM decks for FREE)Included BOOM card decks:Community HelpersTh
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PreK - 3rd, Adult Education
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Halloween Bitmoji Virtual Classroom (PowerPoint & Google Slides)
There are Halloween themed books, videos, and activities linked. This comes in both PowerPoint and Google slide versions.**Check Links in PRESENT MODE OR Click before the letter in the book bins**Click on the last slide to get the PowerPoint versionThe last slide has a link for the PowerPoint version. You may want to check all the links. If there is an activity you want graded you will have to make a copy of the activity so you get the answers back. Please email me if you have any questions:
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PreK - 5th
Which One Doesn't Belong BOOM Cards | CATEGORIES
These 25 BOOM digital task cards are a fun and interactive way to help children develop their critical thinking skills by categorizing objects. On each card, the child will look at the four pictures and then determine which three go together. They will drag the red “X” onto the object that doesn’t belong in the same category as the other three and then hit the “submit” button to see if they are correct. There are 25 different categories such as musical instruments, furniture, eating utensils, su
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PreK - 1st
Winter Bitmoji Epic Virtual Library (Google Slides & PowerPoint)
This is a winter themed library that is linked to Epic Books and other winter themed stories. There is a link on the last slide for the Google Slide version. Everything including the book bins are editable.
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PreK - 5th
Eliminate It! Numbers and Representations within 10
Eliminate It is an effective, quick activity to engage your mathematicians in meaningful conversations about mathematics! The slides are easy to see and ready to go- which means ZERO PREP! Simply display on your projector or other device for the mathematicians to see.*Consider playing whole group or small group to target conversations. *Suggestion: have mathematicians build a set that would either NOT be eliminated or eliminated and explain why/why not. Slides 4-13 include different representat
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PreK - K
Transportation BOOM Cards
These transportation BOOM digital task cards are a fun and interactive way for your children to classify vehicles by determining whether they travel on land, in air, or on water. This BOOM card deck includes 24 transportation task cards. On each card, there is a picture of either a land, air, or water setting and three pictures of vehicles below. The child will click on the vehicle that matches the setting on each card.These BOOM cards work on a laptop, desktop, smartboard, tablet, or any other
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PreK - K
Christmas Bitmoji Virtual Classroom (Google Slide & PowerPoint)
This Christmas themed room comes with books, videos, and activities in both Google Slides and PowerPoint. The room and links are editable.The link for the PowerPoint version is on the last slide. Control click on the words to open slide version. Make a copy (Under the file tab). You should delete the link slide before you share to students. I share as a PDF-so they can't move things and the links are still active.
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PreK - 5th
Boom Cards - Photo Scenes For Making Predictions (Distance Learning)
30 photo scenes for making predictions!Please note this file is for a Boom Cards deck. This is not a printable file. You will need a Boom Learning account in order to access the deck.
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PreK - 3rd
Also included in: Photo Scenes For Making Predictions - File Format Bundle
Which One Doesn't Belong Games | Morning Meeting | Brain Break Activities
Which one doesn’t belong is a fun activity to get your students engaged and thinking critically. As students observe the four photos, some things to consider may be: size, shape, color, surroundings, real/not real, angles, beginning letter sounds, etc. This is a great warm up math exercise where every answer, is the right answer! With 100 exercises, there are plenty of opportunities for class discussion and critical thinking.How to play:o Display a single slideo Observe the four photoso Discuss
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PreK - 1st
DIGITAL SOCIAL STUDIES Teaching Slides: Unit 1 Rules
** THIS PACKET IS PART OF THE DIGITAL VIP BUNDLE HERE ** This packet includes teaching slides to take your social studies instruction not only DIGITAL but also ENGAGING! This packet includes 10 lessons aka covers 10 academic days!The INSTANT Social Studies Digital Teaching Slides are designed for your whole-group social studies core instruction. This set includes 10 lessons. The lessons are designed for a 15-20 minute lesson. The lessons can be taught within 1 session or longer if needed. The IN
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PreK - 1st
Also included in: Kindergarten and First Grade Digital-Based Teaching Slides VIP BUNDLE
February Bitmoji Virtual Classroom (Google Slides & PowerPoint)
This classroom is full of books, videos, activities, and Valentines music. The file comes in both PowerPoint and Google Slides. The link for the PowerPoint version is on the last slide (in hot pink).**Topics: Presidents, Groundhog Day, Valentines, February and MORE-Editable-Remove last slide before presenting-I post rooms in a PDF form so the kiddos can't move items.-Can be embedded in a website or uploaded in several forms.
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PreK - 5th
Presidential Election 2020 | Duck for President | Google Slides
This Election Day Digital Activities Resource engages students in learning about the election both in person or virtually via Google Classroom or via screen share in Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, or your preferred virtual platform. This no prep resource can be used for students independently, small group, or whole group.Included in this pack:Election Day learning target slideElection Day for kids infoV-O-T-E song (to the tune of B - I - N - G - O)Election Day vocabulary with picturesThis
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: Year Long Learning Slides Bundle
Solar System | Planets | PowerPoint | The Sun | The Moon | Distance Learning
Solar System | Space Quiz | Earth's orbit | Planet ActivitiesThe zip file contains:Solar System - Interactive slide show- inner planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars; - outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune;- Earth's orbit- The Sun- The Moon - Space Quiz- AnswersThis is a beautiful and informative 30 slide PowerPoint presentation and 22 pages PDF.I've given you 4 slides to look at in the Download Preview – take a look! AstronomyPlease note that this package is also part of the bu
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PreK - 8th
Social Studies: Places in the Community Boom Cards™ {distance learning}
Product DescriptionAre you looking for a way to reach your special needs students while you are distance learning? These fun, interactive task cards are just what you need to engage your students while they are practicing life skills. It can be used as a whole group activity, as a learning center, as an independent activity, and more! These 20 task cards will allow students to identify places in the community by looking at buildings and choosing from a field of three choices. Each card says,
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PreK - 1st, Adult Education
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Also included in: Social Studies BUNDLE: Boom Cards™ (distance learning)
Geography Unit & Student Workbooks - Grades 1 & 2
This is a huge unit with 5 presentations and 3 student worksheets.
The unit covers:
Map skills:
- What is a map?
- Cardinal directions(north, south, east, west)
- Equator, north pole, south pole
Continents:
- 7 continents
- size order
- land
- animals
- facts
- location
Oceans
- 5 oceans
- names
- locations
The 3 student workbooks include activities for all topics above such as:
- fill-ins
- cut and paste names onto maps
- writing and identifying names of continents and oceans
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PreK - 2nd
Veterans Day - Virtual reading library, video room, vocab game, comprehension,
This is an interactive resource to help teach your students about Veterans Day. It includes:(1) Virtual Bitmoji Reading Library with 11 read alouds(2) Virtual Video room with links to fun facts, veteran dogs, and much more(3) Veterans Day story with Reading Comprehension Questions(4) Two Veterans Day poems(5) Blank Veterans Day acrostic poem(6) Veterans Day Vocabulary Game*The virtual libraries include youtube links. Please verify your school policy for youtube links. Please also check and up
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PreK - 4th
Spot the Difference Seasonal Growing Bundle | Picture Puzzle | Visual Perception
These Seasonal Spot the Difference picture puzzles are great for morning meetings, brain breaks, or for a fun virtual game! This resource will have 40 spot the difference puzzles when the bundle is complete. Each season has 10 differences and interactive drag and crop circles to show your thinking. Each slide comes with an answer key to review your findings. Included:- Spring Spot the Difference | Picture Puzzle | Visual Perception- Summer Spot the Difference | Picture Puzzle | Visual Perception
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PreK - 1st
Social Skills: Making Good Choices {Growing Bundle}
This is a GROWING BUNDLE. I created this pack to help with common classroom problems in my pre-k class. I welcome suggestions of specific ideas or problems you may be dealing with and they will be added to the pack. As pages are added, the price will go up. This would also work well with kindergarten, special education, and transitional kindergarten classrooms.
Currently, there are four scenarios {lining up, sharing, not running away, and bullying} with two wrong answers, one right answer
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PreK - K
Liberty Bell Presentation
When I went to teach my students about The Liberty Bell, I was disappointed to find that many of the resources available, were not appropriate for young students. The language was hard to understand, there were few pictures, it provided too much information. Frustrated, I set out to create a short presentation that would be easy for my students to understand and would provide the information they needed.
How to Utilize:
- Display on Smart Board
- Use on Chromebooks or IPADS
- Print out and cr
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PreK - 2nd
Digital Reward PIGGY BANK Coin Counting Math Activity for Google Slides
This editable PIGGY BANK digital interactive reward is perfect for any teacher to add a fun way to implement a whole-class or individual reward system with their students. It is easy to use and a super fun way to extend on math coin counting concepts or economics! You can edit any wording or images to customize it for your class needs.*** Distance Learning: Use this digital product as a way to track student check ins, work completed, projects finished, and more! Practice counting, money counting
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PreK - 6th
Thanksgiving PowerPoint: The Thanksgiving Story
Use this Thanksgiving PowerPoint Presentation to discuss The First Thanksgiving Story.★ 3 Reading Levels and Animated Illustrated Vocabulary Slides ★ 40 slides - Use with or without my related Mini Book Readers. ★ This Thanksgiving PowerPoint presentation includes all 3 reading levels, as well as slides of the vocabulary.COMMON CORE STANDARDRF.K.4Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding. RF.1.4Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.RF.1.4aRead grade-
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PreK - 2nd
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Importance of learning social studies
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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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