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1st grade social studies graphic organizers $5-10
Wax Museum & Biography Writing Project
This item is a great tool to help students learn about researching, biographies, taking notes, and writing a multi-paragraph paper.You'll find everything you need to put on a wax museum as well! Items include:*a student tracking sheet to help you keep track of historians, assignments, and due dates*note-taking and rough draft pages for 5 paragraphs (these paragraphs include an introduction, early life, contributions, later life, and conclusion*final copy paper that includes a place for students
Grades:
1st - 4th
Community Helpers Unit
This Community Helpers Unit has everything you need to teach your little learners about the people who play important roles in our communities. This Unit has a variety of activities that go into a fun and engaging deep dive into these vital professions, and the best part is that they are all CCSS aligned! What is included?10 mini lessonsWrite the room (editable)Dramatic play centersAnchor chartsCraftsEmergent readersA lapbookSTEM activitiesSight word activitiesClassroom community activitiesCheck
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Non-Fiction Reading Comprehension | Making Inferences Informational Text
Are you scouring through dozens of books to find examples of Making Inferences text, only to find maybe one good example of an inference? It seemed like there were very few for nonfiction! That's exactly why I created this resource with 3 built-in inferences in each little passage.These short, Non-fiction Passages about high interest, influential people of the past, will have your students showing growth with Making Inferences in no time! With 3 built-in inferences in each passage, your students
Grades:
1st - 3rd
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Also included in: Making Inferences 2nd Grade Fiction and Nonfiction Passages Inferencing
Maps and Globes Worksheets - 1st Grade Map Skills - Kindergarten Mapping Skills
Introduce and teach kindergarten and first grade students all about Maps and Globes, Cardinal Directions, Landforms, and Bodies of Water using this fun and engaging geography unit! These map skills worksheets cover landforms, oceans, relative directions, maps, globes, map keys and symbols, compass rose, Venn Diagrams, 24 geography words, and let your students design their own maps. These maps and globes activities are designed to use with ANY social studies curriculum!Students will practice, cre
Grades:
K - 1st
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Presidents Day Activities George Washington & Abraham Lincoln Craft Kindergarten
These Presidents Day activities set you up to teach all about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln! Your Kindergarten-second grade learners will use timelines, mini-books, graphic organizers, a Presidents' Day poem, a game, and crafts are all included! You are able to teach about each of them independently and then compare and contrast them. Inside you will find:Abraham Lincoln Teaching PosterGraphic OrganizersAbraham Lincoln Mini-Book Abraham Lincoln Timeline Abraham Lincoln Facts Craftivity G
Grades:
K - 2nd
Georgia Creek and Cherokee Native American BUNDLE
This bundle is an excellent way to introduce or review the Creek and Cherokee Native Americans that lived in Georgia. It includes each of my PowerPoints on the Creek and Cherokee Native Americans of Georgia as well as the coordinating graphic organizers. It covers the second grade social studies standard for Georgia (SS2H2).
Topics Covered:
-Regions They Lived in
-How They Grew Crops
-Tools and Weapons
-Clothing
-Homes
-Responsibilities of Men and Women
-Interesting Facts
Included in this Bu
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Then and Now Social Studies : Christmas Holiday Edition
This is an amazing way to cover CC reading standards, Close reading, diagram reading and “Then and Now” Social Studies standards in one unit! This product is jam packed with lessons on how Christmas has changed over time. Use the readings provided or one of your favorite Holiday books to complete the activities! Follow me for my new products! 1/2 Price for 24 Hours! You get:• 5 Close Reads• 4 Old Fashioned Ornaments to Decorate the Classroom Tree With!• 3 Read and Interpret a Diagram or Tim
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Three Little Pigs & Big Bad Wolf {point of view and voting unit}
Make the voting process fun {and non-political} with this integrated unit!Use the stories of The Three Little Pigs and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka to compare and contrast stories, investigate character traits and hold a classroom election to determine which story is true.This unit includes:- 8 day unit plan- Wolf and Pig themed pages to explore character traits for each book- a venn-diagram to compare and contrast the two stories- QR codes to watch the stories read al
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Presidents’ Day Unit with Slideshow – All About Washington and Lincoln
This Presidents’ Day unit is packed full of learning and fun! Complete with an informational PowerPoint about Presidents’ Day, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln, a tricorn and stovepipe hat project, and lots of printable materials, this set will turn your students into little historians. With eye-catching display materials including headers for several anchor charts along with colorful vocabulary word wall cards, children will have what they need to read, talk, and write about two important
Grades:
K - 1st
Me on the Map Printable Activities | Back to School | All About Me
Use this hands-on, interactive Me on the Map unit to help students learn all about where they live. This adorable flip-book will make a great bulletin board any month of the year, especially for open house. Use the other printables or worksheets in your social studies interactive notebook.Me on the Map flip-book•Me: Students will write their name, age, school, grade, teacher, and illustrate a picture of themselves•My Street: Students will draw a picture of their street and write about it (open
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
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Biography Research Reports--Using Pebble Go
Looking for an easy way to assist students in using a digital tool like Pebble Go to do research? This comprehensive packet features 26 different historical figures found on the Pebble Go research database. All 26 historical figures have three different research templates to use. You will find a template for students to use for research that corresponds perfectly with the Pebble Go site, a fun facts page, and a writing page with pictures of each person and primary writing lines. ****************
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: Research Reports Bundle Using Pebble Go
Timeline and Biography Unit- Frozen in Time
Timeline and Biography Unit- Frozen in TimeIn this unit, you'll find a poster and biography for the following people:Abraham LincolnAmelia EarhartBabe RuthBarack ObamaBenjamin FranklinCesar ChavezEleanor RooseveltFranklin D. RooseveltFred KorematsuFrederick DouglassGeorge WashingtonHarriet TubmanHelen KellerJackie RobinsonJohn F. KennedyMartin Luther King. Jr.Neil ArmstrongRosa ParksRuby BridgesSally RideSusan B. AnthonyThomas JeffersonThere is also a compare and contrast, brochure template, and
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Little Red Riding Hood Retelling Activities, Story Maps, Fairy Tale Sequencing
Kids will love using the Little Red Riding Hood retell printables to create story maps to practice retelling stories, fairy tale sequencing, and map skills that build oral language, vocabulary, and language comprehension skills. This resource was also designed to help you integrate social studies and teaches kindergarten and first grade children about map skills such as using a compass rose and following cardinal directions.✅How Can I Use This Little Red Riding Hood Story Map?As a retelling and
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Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Communities from Around the World
This 104 page, huge unit, visits 20 countries from around the world. Each country comes with an information sheet that covers cultural things that would be different from the Western culture. Including…
• Landscape
• Animals
• Homes
• Food
• Clothing
• Work
• Fun
Countries Included are:
India, China, Afghanistan, Italy, France, Ethiopia, Ireland, Russia, Poland, Argentina, great Britain and Mexico.
-Each of these cultural elements has a graphic organizer for students to respond to each countrie
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Inventors Volume 1 Biography Information, Writing Activities, Timelines,
Your students will love discovering these amazing Inventors and their Inventions! The real picture sorting cards are great for a center and each inventor includes NO PREP printables perfect for recording sheets or research!What other teachers have said about this product:"Absolutely wonderful! This was a fantastic unit! Worth the money!!!""Wonderful unit that has great interactive lessons embedded into it. The students were able to work together on a number of items- wonderful for cooperative le
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Three Little Pigs Retelling Activities, Story Retell Maps, Fairy Tale Sequencing
Kids will love using The Three Little Pigs retell printables to create story maps to practice retelling stories, fairy tale sequencing, and map skills that build oral language, vocabulary, and language comprehension skills. This resource was also designed to help you integrate social studies and teaches kindergarten and first grade children about map skills such as using a compass rose and following cardinal directions.✅How Can I Use This Three Little Pigs Story Map?As a retelling and sequencin
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Grades:
PreK - 2nd
U.S. Symbols Research Report--Using Pebble Go
Looking for an easy way to assist students in using a digital tool like Pebble Go to do research? This comprehensive packet features 10 different American Symbols found on the Pebble Go research database. All 10 American Symbols have three different research templates to use. You will find a template for students to use for research that corresponds perfectly with the Pebble Go site, a fun facts page, and a writing page with pictures of each symbol and primary writing lines. ********************
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Grades:
K - 3rd
Also included in: Research Reports Bundle Using Pebble Go
Thanksgiving ~ Social Studies and Literacy Unit ~ Grades 1-3
Teach your students about the the Life of the Pilgrims in 1621 and the First Thanksgiving. It includes 15 terrific literacy activities as well.
Please note this product is uploaded in PDF format.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Essential Questions
Description of Pilgrim Life.
Pilgrim Life Handout
Notes organizer for pilgrim life
Narrative Writing Task with Rubric: If I were a pilgrim boy (or girl)…
Graphic Organizer for Writing Task
Themed Stationary
Compare and Contrast Activity to compar
Grades:
1st - 4th
2nd Grade Georgia Regions BUNDLE
This is a bundle of all five of my Georgia Regions PowerPoints and Graphic Organizers.
The set is perfect for teaching all five of the Georgia regions covered in second grade! Students will locate each region on a map, list plants and animals found in the region, and two interesting facts. Each of these categories are covered in the corresponding PowerPoints.
Regions covered:
Appalachian Plateau
Ridge and Valley
Blue Ridge Mountains
Piedmont
Coastal Plains
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Goods and Services "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie..."
This is an integrated social studies and reading mini-unit that focuses on teaching goods and services using the Laura Numeroff classic "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie..." In the book, Mouse asks for lots of different things, some are goods and some are services. This unit is packed full of activities to help your kiddos understand beginning economics in an engaging format.
The mini-unit includes:
-Goods Definition Poster (color)
-Services Definition Poster (color)
-Anchor chart Tree Map Label
Grades:
PreK - 3rd
3 Branches of Government | Three Branches of Government Project | US Government
Are you looking for a U.S. government mini-unit for your early elementary students? THIS IS IT! This best-selling lapbook includes foldable pieces and mini-books that offer an engaging way for students to explore and learn about the three branches of government. Designed for 1st through 3rd graders, this project consists of completing a variety of cut-outs, mini-books, foldable pieces, and “notecards,” which serve as data collection tools. These will all be used to create a lapbook to showcas
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Christopher Columbus with Informational Text, Crafts and Activities
Christopher Columbus may not have discovered America BUT he was an explorer who we learned from.Each activity in this resource is designed to reinforce curriculum as well as inform students about Christopher Columbus, the explorer.The packet contains:1 poem1 KWL organizerA factual mini book for "guided reading"1 Scoot game to assess student understanding and reinforce fact building1 Word Search1 ABC OrderDefinition ExplorationMath Game...Addition2 Writing Activities (about Columbus and describin
Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: October Special Event Themed Bundle with Activities and Crafts
CKLA The Maya, Aztec, and Inca Civilizations, Listening Journal, Grade 1
Keep your students engaged as you deliver your Core Knowledge Language Arts domain lessons on “Early American Civilizations.” In this 43 page packet, you will find
a variety of active listening worksheets specifically designed for each lesson,
supplemental pages created to support your daily word work study,
a student-friendly table of contents,
bonus materials include multiple meaning word pages, phrases and saying worksheet, printables for class books, and a culminating writing activity
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Grades:
1st
Community Helpers Unit for PreK, Kindergarten, or First Grade
Community helpers lesson plans, activities, centers, and guided reading books!
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This 155 page unit will teach your PreK, Kindergarten, or 1st grade students about community helpers. It includes different leveled materials to help your meet your students' varying needs.
The unit begins by having students explore the differences between wants and needs. Students then begin to learn about people who help us meet our wants and needs (community helpers).
The lessons focus on the jobs, t
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Grades:
PreK - 1st
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