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All US Regions States & Capitals Maps
Save $3 if you buy all the regions at once in this packet! Note that this product includes both MAPS and FLASHCARDS for the states & capitals of the five regions of the US.
This product contains 3 maps of each of the five regions of the United States (15 maps in all). Check out the FREE Northeast region set of maps.
• Study guide map labeled with the states and capitals (which can also be used as an answer key)
• Blank map with a word bank of the states and capitals
• Blank map without wor
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3rd - 5th
Thinking Posters | Students Show Their Thinking With Any Lesson
These thinking posters are an easy teaching tool for teachers and students!EIGHTEEN choices for students to respond to their new learning color and black & white. These posters will help you adjust your lessons, differentiate your instruction, and form small groups to support or stretch your students. Easy to monitor your students' thinking and hold them accountable! The posters make it easy to assess learning, monitor strategies, and track progress very quickly. Pull sticky notes of student
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2nd - 8th
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Also included in: Sticky Note Poster Bundle | Exit Slips | Assess Student Learning
Hidden Figures Movie Guide Questions (Multiple Choice Worksheet)
35 multiple choice questions to accompany the 2016 movie, Hidden Figures, directed by Theodore Melfi. Great to use with any science, math or history class. Teacher info included.
Questions are in order as they occur in the movie. Can be used with clickers or CPS systems.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
50 States and Capitals: Maps, Tests, Activities, Google Classroom & Google Forms
Help your students know all 50 states and capitals of the United States with this huge, MEGA-Pack of resources! This product is available in printable PDF, Google Classroom, and Google Forms. A crossword puzzle, word search, test blanks, word banks, and so many more options are also included in this MEGA-Pack! You will even get a mini-research project template for students to research their favorite state, as well as a creative writing template. Whether it be for a civics unit, history class, cl
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4th - 12th
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TED Talk: Persuasive Writing Unit & Assignment
Our most popular item, now with an updated TED Talks To View list!This TED Talk presentation assignment begins with viewing and analyzing TED Talks based on different Persuasive Writing and Public Speaking techniques. Students then create their own. Perfect for either in-class or independent work! This Package Includes: Overview of TED Talks Assignment Sheet Persuasive Techniques HandoutRecommended TED Talks to study Note Taking Template for active viewing Research Notes Template Ideas Templ
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: THE PERSUASIVE WRITING MULTI UNIT BUNDLE
Map Skills Project Based Learning Pirate Treasure Map w/ Landforms & Communities
Need to assess your students' map skills in a fun engaging way? This project-based learning activity assesses elementary student map skills by having them bury their pirate treasure! Students become actively engaged in designing their own island and mapping the route to X Marks the Spot! A great resource for teaching and assessing basic map skills in your social studies classroom! This pirate project includes landforms and community services to make a comprehensive map assessment.This map skill
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2nd - 5th
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Financial Literacy Kindergarten: BUNDLE
TEKS K.9(A) Identify ways to earn income
TEKS K.9(B) Differentiate between money received as income and money received a a gift
TEKS K.9(C) List simple skills required for jobs.
This is a BUNDLE of my three Financial Literacy Lesson Units. To get a closer look at what's included in each, check them out:
Financial Literacy: Chores and Allowance
Financial Literacy: Income and Gifts
Financial Literacy: Job Skills
This unit does NOT include the posters/word wall panels, those must be purchas
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PreK - 1st
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NO PREP Goods and Services Producers and Consumers 2nd grade
Goods and services 2nd grade packet. Goods and services sorts and activities included. Perfect to supplement your goods and services lessons. Could be used for 1st and 3rd grade as well.Includes:5 text evidence passages1 color by type1 cut and paste1 assessment1 answer keyFor more products like this click here!Follow me on Instagram @thebeachclassroomMy YouTube ChannelCheck out the blog!Click here for my terms of use.
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: No Prep Science Social Studies 1st 2nd 3rd GROWING BUNDLE
Remembrance Day Unit
Are you a Canadian middle school teacher looking to foster a profound connection to Remembrance Day in your students? This comprehensive Remembrance Day Unit is designed just for you. Over the course of two engaging weeks, use these 10 engaging and detailed lessons, with multimedia elements, to help your students explore and grasp the core concepts behind this occasion.Lesson OverviewWhat is Remembrance Day?Music Lyric AnalysisPoem & Song Comparison and AnalysisVideo Analysis How Does the Po
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Full Year Middle School English Language Arts Lesson Bundle 1
Civics and Government - 3rd Grade Social Studies & Vocabulary
Civics and Government just got more fun and engaging! This bundle brings together three big ideas in Social Studies in a way that's easy to weave into your reading lessons. Students will dive into how the Constitution shapes our government, learn about the three branches, and explore voting and elections. They'll also get to understand checks and balances and lots more, all in a friendly, easy-to-understand format!This resource can be used for:✅ Social Studies Whole Group Lessons✅ Whole Group or
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2nd - 4th
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California Regions Reading Passages
This year it's time to go deeper into our Social Studies units, so I created in depth nonfiction Reading Passages about the California Regions we will be studying, specifically the Coastal, Mountain, Desert, and Valley. This product has 3 sections:First, each region has their own passage, multiple choice assessment, and a strategy grid to assist students into looking closely at the text. Answer keys are also provided. Then, the 4 regions are compared through 4 pages of multiple choice questio
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3rd - 5th
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2nd Grade Social Studies Curriculum Community Unit
A community unit that includes lesson plans, comprehension, vocabulary words, activities, and even a unit assessment. Unit follows along with the Michigan Citizenship Curriculum for 2nd grade, however, with the community theme it is applicable in almost any place.GOOGLE DRIVE ACCESS LINKS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE PDF DOWNLOAD ON THE GOOGLE DRIVE ACCESS PAGEItems are also accessible for distance learning via Google Slides/Forms.Want to see a sample lesson? CLICK HERE FOR A LESSON FREEBIEIn this pac
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: 2nd Grade Social Studies Communities Curriculum YEAR LONG Bundle Units
Create a Civilization Project for Google Drive and PDF
This Create a Civilization Project will be a hit with your students and help them understand the components that make up a civilization. In this engaging activity, students will create a civilization and prepare a Google Slideshow to highlight different aspects of their civilization. This resource includes four different versions of the assignment to help you find the perfect for your students!This resource includes the following:Teacher Guide (PDF)Civilizations Highlights Project (quick version
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6th - 9th
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Ancient Egypt Vocabulary, Activities, Assessments and Games
Vocabulary Cards, Assessments, Activities and Games for Ancient Egypt!Vocabulary Cards – use as a word wall, matching game, sorting activity, flashcards, writing station, or a "Quiz, Quiz, Trade" game. The cards include 20 vocabulary terms, with a brief description or definition, a visual representation, or both. Word Wall heading included.Terms include ancient, Africa, river, desert, climate, Nile River, flood, fertile, clock, calendar, invent, hieroglyphics, papyrus, architecture, irrigation,
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Ancient China and Ancient Egypt Bundle
13 Colonies Activity Escape Room Social Studies: Colonial America
This breakout escape room is a great way for students to test their knowledge of the 13 colonies. Full "Letter" sized cards as well as smaller sized cards are provided.Important: (How to Make Completely Digital)This product normally requires the printing of the questions to accompany a digital form for students to input answers. But if you follow a couple simple steps, this can be made entirely digital! Just use the following tool:https://smallpdf.com/split-pdf(choose "extract pages")to extra
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5th - 9th
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Levels of Government and Branches of Government Reading Passages BUNDLE
In this resource, there are 4 nonfiction reading passage based on Branches & Levels of Government Passages. It is differentiated for your high, mid, and lower level students. Integrate social studies content with your reading texts and meet each reader's needs with this set. Accompanying activities will ask students to fill in the blank, circle multiple choice questions, fill in a timeline based on the passage, and answer a writing prompt about the US Government.*INCLUDES 4 DIFFERENT TOPICS
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3rd - 6th
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Immigration: Literacy Resources to Teach About Immigration and Ellis Island
*Updated 8/6/17*This collection of literacy activities is an excellent supplementation to your immigration unit. It focuses on immigration at the turn of the 20th century and on Ellis Island. It includes a wide variety of activities that will help you integrate reading and writing into your immigration unit. All of the activities can be used in whole groups, small groups, or as independent work. Most pages come in both color and black/white. Download the preview to take a peek at many of th
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2nd - 4th
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Paired Texts [Print & Digital]: American Revolution Grades 4-6
These paired passages, or paired texts, meet the demand for more complex texts that students can use to compare and build knowledge to integrate information and draw conclusions. The high-interest, rigorous passages in this set are great to stretch your 4th and 5th graders, and still appropriate for many students in middle school as well. The passages in this set are differentiated. Two levels are provided: on grade level for 4-5 and on grade level for 6-7.I have included printable AND Google Ap
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Yearlong Print and Digital Paired Text Bundle for Grades 4-6
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Paired Texts [Print & Digital]: Titanic Grades 4-6
These paired passages, or paired texts, meet the demand for more complex texts that students can use to compare and build knowledge to integrate information and draw conclusions. The high-interest, rigorous passages in this set are great to stretch your 4th and 5th graders, and still appropriate for many students in middle school as well. The passages in this set are differentiated. Two levels are provided: on grade level for 4-5 and on grade level for 6-7.I have included printable AND Google Ap
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Yearlong Print and Digital Paired Text Bundle for Grades 4-6
States and Capitals Quizzes Bundle | Digital & Printable
This U.S. Regions and States Quiz Bundle includes 36 self-grading Google quizzes and 21 printable PDF quizzes with answer keys. Quizzes are provided for each region (Southeast, Northeast, Midwest, Southwest, and West) along with comprehensive tests for all 50 states.For samples of the products included in this bundle, check out the FREE Midwest Region Sample Pack. The printable PDFs include numbered regional maps with the following assessment types:State names given – fill in the state numberSta
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3rd - 6th
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Geography Map Skills Unit: Info Text, Int. Notebook, Assess, Quick Checks + More
Help your students develop proficiency in GEOGRAPHY AND MAP SKILLS.With this unit, they will learn to read a compass rose, key/ legends with symbols, and scales on a map. They will also be able to label the 7 continents and 5 oceans on a map, learn the difference between maps and globes and understand the effect of distortion. By the end of this unit, they will also be able to name and identify the purpose of different maps (physical, political, elevation, and population) just to name a few of t
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3rd - 5th
YOU Be the Judge: Analyzing Supreme Court Decisions
This lesson will place students in the role of a Supreme Court judge! Students will analyze eight fictitious scenarios based upon actual Supreme Court cases. Drawing upon a judicial mindset-- students are to predict which Constitutional Amendments apply to each case, and then debate the central question of each case. See examples below; Scenario #2: What protection(s)/Amendment(s) are involved? Should the students at the high school football game be able to have a public prayer at the games? Exp
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9th - 12th
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Star Spangled Banner MEGA Activity Pack - Lesson Plans, Centers, Presentation
Are you looking for a great way to present the Star-Spangled Banner to your students? Look no further! This pack will give you everything you need! This unit is perfect for studying our national anthem by Francis Scott Key - use for 9/11, Memorial Day, President's Day, or just because!In this resource:LESSON PLANS - Complete, extremely detailed lesson plans that are editable for your needs. Standards marked for the Georgia GPS music standards for 3rd grade but I also included the 1994 Natio
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2nd - 5th
Famous Inventions Kids Love - Reading Passages and Activities for Second Grade
FAMOUS INVENTIONS KIDS LOVE!HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED...Who invented chocolate chip cookies?Who invented doughnuts?Who invented the Slinky?THE FEATURED INVENTIONS IN THIS SET INCLUDE:Band-AidsBubble gumChocolate chip cookiesCotton candyCrayola crayonsDoughnutsFerris wheelHershey chocolatePopsiclesRoller CoastersSlinkyThe Game of LifeFind out the stories behind several famous inventions kids love! Each READING PASSAGE was inspired by an amazing children's picture book. For a complete list of the pic
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2nd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-1
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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.
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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.
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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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