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Holidays social studies resources in English (UK)
Gift Photo Frames for Valentine's, Mother's/Father's Day and Grandparents Day
Photo frames are simple, yet cute, gifts that your students can take home for their loved ones. These frames can be personalized using the message/poem templates included and are bound to leave their recipients with a heartwarming glow on Valentine's Day/Mother's Day/Father's Day/Grandparents Day or any special occasion.
Key Features
1 x teacher notes (for differentiation)
1 x easy to follow instructions page
4 x high quality portrait photo frames
4 x high quality landscape photo frames
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PreK - 2nd
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New Years Back from Winter Break Activities for Teens
The New Year is usually a time for self reflection and setting goals for the upcoming year. These fun and quality New Year's activities are ideal for use with your teenagers and young students right after January! This pack comes with attractive, enjoyable and creative activities that are simple and fun to work through, require no preparation and are great at encouraging students to reflect at the start of a new year! These activities can be used over again for almost any grade and make special
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4th - 8th
Happy New Years 2024 Math Activity - Number of the Day & Bonus Puzzle Worksheets
New Years 2024 Number of the Day by Games 4 Learning, is a New Year Number of the Day activity that uses 2024 as the Number of the Day. It is the ideal math activity for the start of the New Year and a great activity to welcome them back from Winter break. UPDATED FOR 2024: This product has been updated for 2024 and now contains Number of the Day for the years 2024 - 2028. If you have already purchased this product please download again to receive the updated version.BONUS PUZZLE SHEETS: We have
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2nd - 5th
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All about me Social Media Character profiles
Get to know your students in a fun way they can relate to with these "get to know me" Social Media Profiles: EDITABLE Templates! They also work great as a character analysis! Simply add text boxes and type straight into them, for distance learning.The use of social media is very much a part of students’ lives in this day and age. Use this to your advantage in your lessons by encouraging them to tell you and their peers all about themselves at the beginning of the year or writing about a famous p
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3rd - 12th
3D Shapes Christmas Crafts Ornaments Nets 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th Grade
This fun, hands-on Christmas 3D shapes pack ticks a lot of boxes. Your students will love making seven Christmas crafts, which could be turned into ornaments, and there's an option to cover geometry math skills with 3D shapes at the same time.The seven crafts include a Christmas tree (cone), present (cube), bauble (sphere), milk and cookies (cylinders), Santa hat (pyramid), and gingerbread house (rectangular prism and triangular prism).To turn the crafts into ornaments add string or ribbon, or u
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2nd - 6th
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Pumpkin Themed Prepositions Activities - Spatial Concepts- Fall and Halloween
This pumpkin themed prepositions resource is perfect for supporting your students to understand and use 8 spatial concepts. These engaging materials are great for your Speech Therapy sessions throughout fall and for Halloween.The prepositions covered in this resource include:In, On, Under, Behind, In front of, Next to, Above, Between. This resource was updated on 22nd September 2022. If you purchased it before this time, please redownload it now to get the most recent version and all the new add
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PreK - K
Christmas Coloring Pages Sheets: Christmas Doodle Quote Coloring Pages
These Christmas coloring pages are a relaxing and fun resource for your students to color and doodle and even decorate the classroom with! These Christmas coloring pages are filled with jolly Christmas quotes for the festive season!They work well for morning work or early finishers!You’d be amazed at the wonders it can do for young peoples' well-being just by giving them some time to color for a while – no matter what their age, it is something that is very therapeutic and inspiring. There are 6
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2nd - 11th
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Also included in: Christmas Activities for Teens - BUNDLE
Social Studies Ancient Egypt History Unit Bundle 3rd, 4th, 5th Hands-on
SAVE MONEY with this complete hands-on unit bundle on ancient Egypt history full of engaging activities including a timeline, primary source activity, causes and consequences, hieroglyphics, map work, coloring cover pages, research organizers and six hands-on art and craft projects!Ancient Egypt is such a fun topic to explore, and this pack of activities provides a range of activities to get your students engaged in learning and build their knowledge about how ancient Egyptians lived, all while
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3rd - 6th
Australian Democracy Features Complete Bundle | Year 5 HASS Government Civics
Explore types of government, democracy and voting in Australia with this Year 5 HASS civics and citizenship bundle. This Australian government resource includes three democracy and voting units,assessment tasks and a word wall and poster set. This is the perfect resource for teaching the importance of democracy and government in Australia.✫✫✫✫✫✫✫✫✫✫This bundle contains:Types of Government Mini UnitThis resource includes:✫ Teacher Notes✫ Cover Page✫ Brainstorming Activity✫ 2 General Note Taking S
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5th
Argument Writing Sentence Starters
Students are often times left without knowing how to begin their argument writing. To help guide your students in citing their evidence and elaborating further, provide them with these "They Say, I Say" templates from Graff, Birkenstein, and Durst, 2012. Equipped with these sentence frames, students will build their argument more eloquently and fully. Great addition to any debate class or criminal justice class that encourages evaluation of argument with proof and evidence.
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8th - 12th
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Winter Kindness Craft Cocoa Bulletin Board 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th Grade
This 3D cup of cocoa craft for the bulletin board is a lovely way for your students to show kindness by giving and receiving "marshmallow compliments" in their cup, or they could write ways that they are kind on the marshmallows. This is perfect for a winter-theme, the lead-up to Christmas, and any time you want to focus on kindness and building each other up with kind words.Students could decorate their cups according to the theme, using patterns and stripes, or choose their designs. I've inclu
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2nd - 6th
Ash Wednesday & Lent Promise Tomb Rock Spinner
Roll away the tomb rock to reveal your Lenten promises!The ‘Lenten Promise Wheel’ is a creative way for students to reflect on the meaning of Lent and then draw or write a promise for Fasting, Almsgiving and Prayer. A great addition to any religious or Sunday School classroom on Ash Wednesday.Resource Includes; SPINNER WITH 3 SECTIONS- Front Cover – My Lenten Promises (with & without pictures)- FrontCover– MyPromises For Lent (with & without pictures)- Front Cover – Blank Template-Respon
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2nd - 6th
Knights and Castles
**Over 80 Printables**Included in this Knights and Castles Activity Pack--Knights and Castles Differentiated Worksheets for Emergent Readers and Writers(simple tracing of words, colouring and/or writing sentences)-Extension Worksheets for Literacy (Create a Knight, create a King)-Cross-curricular science/materials worksheets (Best materials for a Castle)-Real Life Castle Pictures showing Castles in England and Europe (excellent for discussion and visual learners).-Writing Templates for Queen, Ki
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PreK - 2nd
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Matariki {Let's celebrate Māori New Year!}
Did you know that the Matariki constellation is called ‘Subaru’ in Japan? Or that although we can normally only see 6-7 stars with the naked eye, there are actually over 400 included in the Matariki cluster?This 56 page mini booklet pack is designed to support your classroom discussions about Matariki. It was created to address the lack of easy to use resources for primary aged children – you can mix and match from the large selection of pages to best meet the needs of your class! *Also inclu
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Matariki Mega Pack Bundle
Three Levels of Government Australia | Year 6 HASS Australian Government Civics
Explore the three levels of government - local, state and federal government - in Australia with this Year 6 HASS civics and citizenship resource. This unit looks at the roles and responsibilities of the levels of government and includes fact sheets, a range of activities (including research activities) and an assessment piece. This mini-unit is also available as part of the Levels of Government in Australia Complete Bundle and the Levels of Government Mini Unit BundleThis mini unit is written t
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6th
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Also included in: Levels of Government Mini Unit Bundle (Year 6 HASS)
Waitangi Day {An activity booklet about the Treaty for Kiwi kids}
Did you know that there are actually 9 copies of the Treaty of Waitangi? They travelled the country after the initial signing in Waitangi on the 6th February 1840 collecting more than 500 signatures!This 48 page mini booklet pack is designed to support your classroom discussions about the Treaty of Waitangi. It was created to address the lack of easy to use resources for primary aged children in New Zealand – you can mix and match from the large selection of pages to best meet the needs of you
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2nd - 5th
Also included in: Waitangi Day Mega Pack Bundle
New Years 2024 Activities - Free NO PREP Math Games - Happy New Year
Celebrate the New Year 2024 with this set of 4 math board games by Games 4 Learning! These games are a fun way to ease students back into math in the New Year. A fun math activity to welcome them back after Winter break.UPDATED FOR 2024These New Years Math Games have now been updated for 2024.HERE'S WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS FREEBIE:- 3 Printable Math Board Games and - 1 Print and Play Game Sheet based around the New Years 2024! THE GAMES ARE:Happy New Year 2024 - Find combinations of numbers that
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1st - 4th
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Rules and Laws in Australia | Year 4 HASS Australian Government and Civics
Explore rules and laws and the difference between them with this Year 4 HASS Australian civics and citizenship resource. This Australian government resource asks students to define rules and laws and to determine the difference between them. It includes fact sheets, a range of learning activities, an assessment task and marking rubric.This mini unit is written to suit the Australian Curriculum and is written for Australian students. Elements will work for other parts of the world, but check the
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4th
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Weather Report Unit
Are you looking for a task-based engaging unit to teach weather words to your students? Then why not turn your students into talented weathermen with cultural unit?Your Weather Report Unit in detail:Here is a complete set of 25 worksheets to have your students play the role of the weatherman in your classroom.Content:❑ ANSWER KEY❑ COLOR version and B&W version❑ Step 1: Discover•Review words•Work on expressions•Task 1: Create a weather wheel❑ Step 2: Learn•Read a weather forecast•Listen to a
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1st - 8th
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Also included in: Weather Report Unit - British Weather Resources Bundle
Anzac Biscuits by Phil Cummings: Reading Activities for the Anzac Day Book
Explore Anzac Biscuits by Phil Cummings with this collection of reading activities for the Anzac Day book. These five activities cover comprehension, retell, sorting and comparison, description and writing and allow students to better understand the text - a gentle exploration of the impacts of war on soldiers and families. A perfect resource in the lead up to Anzac Day To use this resource you will need:At least one copy of Anzac Biscuits by Phil Cummings (first published 2013) These activities
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K - 2nd
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Australian Citizenship Rights Responsibilities | Year 6 HASS Australian Civics
Explore Australian citizenship and the rights and responsibilities of Australian citizens with this Year 6 HASS civics and citizenship resource. This Australian government unit covers the rights and responsibilities of citizens in Australia as well as human rights and laws and the rights of children. This resource includes information sheets, a wide range of learning activities and an assessment task.This mini-unit is also available as part of the Australian and Global Citizenship Complete Bundl
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6th
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Also included in: Australian and Global Citizenship Mini Unit Bundle (Year 6 HASS)
Australian and Global Citizenship Complete Bundle | Year 6 HASS Government
Explore citizenship in Australia and what it means to be a world citizen with this Year 6 HASS civics and citizenship bundle. Covering the Australian citizenship pledge, the rights and responsibilities of Australian citizens and global citizenship, this Australian government HASS bundle includes information sheets, activities, assessment tasks and vocabulary word wall and poster resources. These resources are written to suit the Australian Curriculum and are written for Australian students. Most
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6th
The 6Rs of Sustainability Earth Day Lesson
The 6Rs of Sustainability - Earth Day: A quality presentation and activities for teens!
This resource comes with an easy to follow and attractive PowerPoint presentation which explains each of the 6 Rs (Recycle, Reduce, Refuse, Rethink, Repair, Reuse). It contains lots of appropriate visuals: great to maintain engagement and for differentiation, and as you go through it, give students the opportunity to reflect and discuss our Earth’s sustainability and what we can do to look after our planet.
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4th - 9th, Higher Education
All About Me - Oral Language Cards - Conversation and Writing Prompts
Get your students talking with these fun conversation prompts. Perfect for the first week back to help students get to know each other, for EAL/ESL/ELL/EALD students, circle time, morning meeting or for ice-breakers. Set up class discussion expectations right from the start while also allowing the students to get to know each other. Oral language skills are needed before anything else, and these cards can be used to encourage great communication on the first day and throughout the year. These
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K - 3rd
Also included in: Custom Bundle
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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
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