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4th grade Back to School social studies task cards
Back To School Task Cards Getting to Know You Task Cards
Enjoy these 32 digital and printable 'getting to know you' task cards to engage your students during the first few days of school! I always use them on the first day of school, and we love them!**NOW INCLUDES THREE OPTIONS, Including Digital Access!**These are the ORIGINAL Getting To Know You, Back to School Task Cards!*NEW* 'Getting To Know You' task cards now includes 3 options for use!Printable Task CardsDigital Task Cards to Project via Google SlidesDigital Student Slides via Google SlidesP
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2nd - 7th
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Left Brain vs Right Brain Tests
Do you want an activity that gives you real information about how your students think, perceive, process, and learn best from the very first days in your room? This Left Brain vs Right Brain Test will guide your students through a series of questions, and they will record their answers on a "map of their brain". You can read the questions aloud, have the list printed for groups or individuals, or use the task cards included to make a task card scoot around the room. I know there is a lot of rese
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4th - 6th
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Map Skills Scavenger Hunt + Free BOOM Cards
This 20-question scavenger hunt (task card activity) reviews and practices map skills, vocabulary, and terms. (2 cards have been added for use by Canadian teachers.)This Product Includes:• cover card for organizing and storing scavenger hunt • 20 colorful cards providing practice with map skills vocabulary and using maps• alternate cards have been added using a map of Canada for cards 13 and 14, instead of a map of the United States.• 20 b/w cards• crossword puzzle (2 formats for differentiation
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3rd - 4th
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Also included in: Map Skills Bundle
First Day of School Task Cards
**Ink-saver and colored versions available**Need a fun activity for the first day of school?! Use these FIRST DAY task cards to get to know your students better and to get them familiar with their new classroom! (I personally use them first thing in the morning, but you can use them whenever!)The cards are placed around the room (or all in one area if you prefer it that way) and the students will record their answers on their recording sheet. For example, when they get to the R card, they will
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1st - 8th
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Community Signs Skill Pack Leveled for Special Education - Life Skills
Do your students need a high level of varied practice in order to learn community signs? This community signs skill pack will help your students progress from identifying a sign to understanding what the community signs mean. Being able to identify and understand community signs is a crucial life skill. These activities help students recognize and understand the meaning of the different signs.This life skills and social studies set is already differentiated for you. There are 3 levels included t
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K - 12th
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CHAMPS Classroom Behavior Management Posters Whole Class Behavior Plan Visuals
Set clear expectations for your students before every activity with the CHAMPS behavior management system. This CHAMPS resource has over 170 poster options to customize the system to meet your needs! Stop behavior issues before they start with this organized system. CHAMPS is not a system of rules and consequences. It’s a way to clearly communicate to your students in a positive manner making it easier for expectations to be met. CHAMPS communicates 6 expectations:C - Conversation (no talking,
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PreK - 6th
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Scientific Method Task Cards | Science Investigations Experiments Variables
If your students are like mine, they need extra help with science process skills like supporting claims, identifying variables, asking testable questions, and writing investigation procedures.This task cards set has 20 task cards that each have 5 questions about an investigation scenario (100 total questions).Skills Included:identify independent variablesidentify dependent variablesidentify constantsformulate hypothesescommunicate valid conclusionsunderstand repeated trials can increase the reli
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4th - 7th
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CHAMPS Editable Classroom Behavior Management Posters Whole Class Behavior Plan
Set clear expectations for your students before every activity with the CHAMPS behavior management system. With pre-made posters for you along with a Google Drive version that you can fully customize you’ll find everything, you need to start a successful CHAMPS system in your classroom! Stop behavior issues before they start with this organized system. CHAMPS is not a system of rules and consequences. It’s a way to clearly communicate to your students in a positive manner making it easier for e
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PreK - 6th
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Titanic Passenger Research Activity
Dig into history and research the passengers aboard the Titanic with this printable and digital reproduction of tickets aboard the Titanic! Use the interactive, Google Slides version to explore and research 36 different Titanic. Each of the 36 different tickets uses the real names of Titanic passengers. **This resource was COMPLETELY updated April 2021**What is included in this Titanic Passenger Tickets Research Activity?This activity comes in three versions (see the 'PREVIEW' for a visual of
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3rd - 8th
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First Day of School Activities 4th Grade Back to School Math Review of 3rd Grade
Do you need fun math activities for the first day of school that also help your 4th grade students get to know each other? These cooperative learning activities are perfect for your fourth grade math class! They’re engaging, low prep, and easy to implement, too. Each beginning of the year math review activity has different sets of problems that review what students learned in math last year in 3rd grade. Choose from Find a Friend activities - also known as find someone who - that students comple
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4th
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STEM Activities - Student Passport around the World
Complete STEM activities based on a famous landmarks AROUND the WORLD! Students travel through Australia, France, Italy, Sweden, Russia, Egypt and America earning passport stamps as they complete their challenges. This is a fantastic resource for team building activities. Click HERE to SAVE over 20% with our Travel the World STEM Bundle.These task cards allow flexibility with the teacher to either grab and go or build further lessons around each challenge. They lend themselves to Geography, Sci
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2nd - 6th
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3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: WORLD CONTINENTS STEM Activities and Challenges Travel Passport
Morning Meeting Greetings
These Greeting cards for Morning Meeting are the perfect go-to for your classroom! Print, laminate, and put on a binder ring for convenient access.
32 Greetings are included, along with an EDITABLE set of cards for you to add your original greetings. Also includes editable sets of partner match-up cards!
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PreK - 5th
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Also included in: Morning Meeting and Back to School BUNDLE! {9 Products in One!}
Ancient China Stations with Graphic Organizer & Google Reading Investigation
This content-rich, student-centered, and interactive activity has 8 stations detailing the geography, achievements, social classes, leadership, economy, and religion of Ancient China. Students travel through the Zhou, Shang, Qin, and Han dynasties!The readings include pictures, charts, and maps. Questions and interactive mini-activities are underneath the reading and on a separate worksheet for teacher choice. Teacher instructions and four different activity ideas for the same Common Core readin
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4th - 8th
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4th Grade Texas History TEKS-Based Year Long Bundle / Printable & Digital
If you teach Texas History this bundle is going to be a life-saver! By purchasing this bundle - you get 3 units free!These products are aligned with the most current 4th grade social studies TEKS and TEKS Resource Units, however, many of the concepts covered are the same as concepts found in 7th grade Texas History standards. Each unit included comes with 3 or more passages, a vocabulary and comprehension activity and answer key for each passage, social studies journal inserts, vocabulary mat
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4th - 7th
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Vocabulary Activities, Graphic Organizers, & Templates - Use with Any Word List
Having exposure to a variety of vocabulary words every day and quality vocabulary instruction gives your students an advantage in reading, writing, and comprehending! That's why you need this set of vocabulary activities, graphic organizers, and templates for ANY WORD LIST ! It's the best way to get your students into the routine of interacting with new vocabulary words on a regular basis, while learning their spellings and meanings, too. Each connection they make to a word strengthens their voc
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K - 6th
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Editable Back to School Get to Know the Teacher Scavenger Hunt
Let's Taco bout the Teacher! Start building relationships with your students from Day one! Let students get to know you in a fun and engaging way by completing a Scavenger Hunt! This fun Taco Themed game is sure to keep your kiddos on task!There are 20 questions that students are asked about you (the teacher). Students first take a guess on their paper and then they search around the room to find the answers.PowerPoint Version and Google Slides Version INCLUDEDBefore The GameThis file is edita
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Back to School Activity Bundle
Ice Breakers Task Cards Get to Know You Questions for Games and Back to School
Use these 44 ice breaker question cards (print or digital) at the start of the year as a back to school activity or anytime you want to build community in your classroom. PRINTABLE VERSION:Directions and Suggestions44 Printable Task Cards Color44 Printable Task Cards BlacklineDIGITAL VERSION:Google Slides Option44 Google Slides Task CardsThey can be used in a variety of ways as discussion or writing prompts; however, they are also a great way to get your students up and moving. Instructions for
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3rd - 6th
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Interpret Remainders Word Problems - Simple Division with Remainders Task Cards
Do your 4th or 5th grade students struggle to understand interpreting remainders in word problems? Long division with remainders can be tricky! One way to help your students recognize different ways remainders can be represented in word problems is to have them practice reading and thinking about them in different contexts. These differentiated division task cards are a great tool to help you help your students correctly interpret remainders. This set of Differentiated Division Interpreting Rema
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4th - 5th
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Kindness is My Superpower Read Aloud Activities - Random Acts of Kindness
I love this new book, Kindness is My Superpower for the beginning of the school year! I've created a few printables and quick craftivities for you and your students to do after reading! The Superhero Apology and Random Acts of Kindness would make a great anchor chart! The file contains the following:-6 Student Response Pages (making connections, favorite part, what have you done that was kind, what will you do that's kind this year, how did the character change)-Superhero Writing Craftivity-Voca
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1st - 4th
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Texas History / Regions of Texas / Unit 1 / Printable & Digital
This resource is a 4th grade Texas History teacher's life-saver when it comes to teaching TEKS Resource Unit 1: Regions of Texas. This unit is jam packed with easy-prep, easy to grade, comprehensive content and engaging activities that both you and your students will love!If you want to go paperless, or just get in those t-tess technology "brownie points", the entire unit is provided in a digital format as well! This product contains the following: 4 reading passages on the following topics (ea
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4th - 7th
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Texas History / Republic of Texas and Statehood / Unit 7 / Printable & Digital
This resource is a 4th grade Texas History teacher's life-saver when it comes to teaching TEKS Resource Unit 7: The Republic of Texas and Statehood. This unit is jam packed with easy-prep, easy to grade, comprehensive content and engaging activities that both you and your students will love!If you want to go paperless, or just get in those t-tess technology "brownie points", the entire unit is provided in a digital format as well! This product contains the following: 3 reading passages on the f
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4th - 7th
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Topographic Map Activity and Topographic Map Worksheets Bundle
Reading topographic maps is an easy skill to teach with this complete topographic map bundle. You will save hours of planning time with all of the no-prep resources in this digital and print lesson and topographic map activity. The resources included in this bundle of topographic map activities will teach your students to read contour lines, determine contour intervals, and identify elevation. The digital version can easily be shared in Google Classroom.Included in this topographic map activit
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4th - 9th
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4-ESS2-2
Civics and Government 5th Grade Unit Bundle (SS5CG1 and SS5CG2)
Civics and Government Understanding Unit BundleThis bundle includes:1. Citizenship Lesson and Doodle Notes2. Amendment Process Lesson and Doodle Notes3. Voting Amendments Lesson and Doodle Notes4. Unit Test (20 Questions)5. Task Cards A-Z6. Bonus File: Unit Plans and Choice BoardSS5CG1 Explain how a citizen’s rights are protected under the U.S. Constitution. a. Explain the responsibilities of a citizen. b. Explain the concept of due process of law and describe how the U.S. Constitution protects
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4th - 8th
FIND THE MYSTERY STATE • A Fun Geography Game Using Map-Reading Skills
It’s geography, critical thinking, following directions, and map-reading skills rolled into one! Find the Mystery State is a set of 28 Task Cards that can be used for a fun, creative game to help your students review basic map skills and following directions. The Nelson family is headed to a new home somewhere in the United States. But what is their final destination? Your students play detective and try to find the location of the family’s new home by eliminating states one at a time using a m
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4th - 6th
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