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4th grade social studies task cards under $5
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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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
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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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: WORLD CONTINENTS STEM Activities and Challenges Travel Passport
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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Map Skills and Cardinal Directions Task Cards
Cardinal Directions Task Cards are used to reinforce the skills students need to know for reading maps, using cardinal directions, and learning geography skills. This task card set uses the cardinal directions north, south, east, and west. Students will use the map ‘Bentley Community Map’ to answer the 20 task cards. There is a recording sheet and an answer key provided. Task Cards are great to use in the classroom for:• Independent Practice• Scoot• Test Prep• Collaborative Pairs• Whole-Group As
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3rd - 6th
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Virginia Studies SOL Review Task Cards
Ready to review for the Virginia Studies SOL test? This ready-to-go task card set is a great tool to add to your toolbox! It works well as an independent or small group activity for centers, early finishers, and morning work. Or use it with the whole class for a comprehensive Virginia Studies review game!These multiple-choice task cards cover key concepts from the Virginia Studies curriculum. The cards are designed to imitate the increased rigor of the end-of-year SOL test. This task card set in
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4th - 5th
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Also included in: Virginia Studies Review Task Cards Bundle
Ancient Rome Reading Stations & Graphic Organizer Worksheet: Digital & Print
This content-rich, student-centered, and interactive activity has seven stations detailing the (GRAPES) geography, achievements, social classes, leadership (government and laws), economy, and religion of Ancient Rome. The readings include pictures, charts, and maps. Questions and interactive mini-activities are underneath the reading and on a separate worksheet for teacher choice. An answer key is included! Teacher instructions and 5 different activity ideas for the same Common Core readings are
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4th - 10th
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Types of Communities │Rural, Urban, & Suburban
This is the perfect bundle to use when teaching your students about the different types of communities (rural, suburban, and urban)! Your students will enjoy these hands on activities and task cards, which are great to use in centers. Posters are also provided for your students to refer to. Included in this bundle:-"What is a Community" Poster-Rural Communities Poster-Urban Communities Poster-Suburban Communities Poster-Rural, Urban, and Suburban Picture Cards (1 page each, 4 images to a page)-R
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K - 6th
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The Three Branches of Government {Reading Passages, Centers, and Mores!}
The Three Branches of GovernmentReading Passages with questions for the Three Branches: Legislative, Executive, and Judicial. Also included are an interactive sort, a three branches foldable, task cards, a board game with questions, a webquest, and venn diagrams. At the end of the unit you will find a study guide and an assessment along with a full answer key. Please check out the preview to see a lot of what is included in this unit. Thank you!
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3rd - 5th
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Map Skills Geography Task Cards - 2nd & 3rd Grade Continents Oceans & More
Do your students need a fun way to practice with map skills? These geography task cards are versatile and can be used for games, review, and test prep! This resource includes 2 sets of task cards. One set includes the pictures/questions with no QR codes. The other set includes QR codes - when scanned students see the questions/pictures. This is a fun way to use tablets or chromebooks to play scoot! Several versions of recording sheets are included with and without a word bank. Geography loca
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2nd - 4th
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Task Cards Scoot Activity Weathering, Erosion, Deposition & Earth’s Landforms
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Task Cards and Scoot Activity for Weathering, Erosion, Deposition & Earth’s Landforms!
Two for one low price!
This set of task cards can be used in several ways:
Differentiated Practice (You work with one group, and another group works with the cards)
Scoot Activity
Practice Quiz
Final Test
Center Task Cards
Individual or Small Group Remediation/Acceleration
There are 36 cards for Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition. Each card has 3 answer choi
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3rd - 7th
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Time to Trade- a game to teach systems of exchange, bartering, money & trading.
This is a trading game that can be played with most primary aged children. It has been designed to teach children about the history of trade, giving children a greater understanding of why money is now the system of exchange used in most societies today. This game also helps children in understanding the concepts of trade, bartering, exchange, needs, goods and services.
This product includes 14 pages of resources which contain the following:
- 24 x game cards
- 12 x sets of 10 (120 in total) g
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1st - 7th
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Label Continents and Oceans BOOM™ Cards | Continents and Oceans Activity
Your students will have a blast with these label the continents and oceans boom cards! This self-checking, engaging continents and oceans activity provides students with immediate feedback. Use cards as a review, in a learning center, as a quiz, or as a reteaching tool. BOOM cards can be used on interactive white boards, desktops, chrome books, laptops, iPads, iPhones, Kindle Fire, and more! BOOM card are perfect for center work, students needing extra practice (RTI groups), students who need mo
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: 7 Continents Printables | 5 Oceans | Ocean and Continent Quiz Boom Cards
U.S. Constitution Reading Passage & Comprehension Questions - Constitution Day
Although this low prep resource was originally designed for Constitution Day, it can be used any time you are teaching about the U.S. Constitution. Students read a short reading passage about the Constitution, and then answer comprehension questions about the reading passage using the 24 task cards. All you have to do is make copies and cut out the task cards, and it is ready to go for your third or fourth grade students! This activity includes:a one page reading comprehension passage about t
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3rd - 5th
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North Carolina's Three Regions Intro to NC Geography and History
Teach your students about North Carolina’s Three Regions with this fun unit! Students will get an intro to NC geography and history through these activities! Students will learn about North Carolina’s place in this world. Then they will explore North Carolina’s three regions by learning about the characteristics of each region.Students will learn about North Carolina’s three regions: the Mountains, the Piedmont, and the Coastal Plains. They can explore each region through photographs and descrip
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3rd - 4th
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Spending and Saving Money assessment and task cards
~Spending and Saving Money~ -Aligned with the new TEKS!- This packet includes a worksheet where students have to come up with a budget for Lisa's Lemonade stand.-Free draw worksheet for an item that the student wants and how to save up money to purchase that item.-Spending and saving money story with critical thinking questions that follow. Help Kyle at the farmer's market!-Spending and Saving money scenario questions where students have to decide if the person needs to save or spend their money
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Financial Literacy| Personal Finance Bundle
Map Skills Game, Reading Passages with Questions, and Posters
Using this set, students will learn all about map skills including cardinal and intermediate directions, compass rose, lines of latitude and longitude, political and physical maps, map key and scale, and more. Be sure to check out the preview to see all that is included in this set.
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• 7 posters/anchor charts for classroom display- Include the following map skill vocabulary terms - cardinal directions, intermediate directions, Equator, Prime Meridian, latitude, longitude, politica
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2nd - 5th
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The 5 Regions of the United States- Scavenger hunt -Distance Learning
This is a scavenger hunt for the five regions of the United States. In this pack you will find 20 cards and a worksheet with questions. There are four cards for every region. They will be able to answer the questions on the worksheet using the cards. I like to hang the cards around the room and get the kids up and out of their seats.Directions: There are 20 cards, each with a fun fact. You cut the cards apart and hang them around the room. The students then "hunt" for each of the cards. Each stu
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in: Scavenger Hunt Bundle
Forms & Types of Government Dictatorship Democracy 5th 6th Grade Social Studies
This forms of government resource teaches students the differences between a dictatorship and a democracy. Includes:Democracy Vs. Dictatorship SortIncludes 22 characteristic cards. Students determine whether they describe a democracy or a dictatorship and sort them under the correct heading.Graphic OrganizersIncludes a Venn Diagram and Double Bubble Map for comparing and contrasting the two forms of government.Real-Life Scenarios Task CardsIncludes 6 different scenarios describing a child’s dail
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4th - 6th
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Types of Maps Task Cards
This product includes the following:- Teacher summary of each type of map- Cornell notes format of the types of map notes for students to record critical information- 12 Task cardsIMPORTANT: You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to open and edit the file. You can download the software here.You are welcome to use this for classroom use, but this is not for commercial use. Click here to see more of my products!Thank you!Creative Classroom Activities :)Follow me on Instagram: creative.classro
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4th - 7th
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a U.S. GEOGRAPHY GAME • WHERE'S WALLY? • TOP SELLER
a U.S. Geography Game WHERE’S WALLY? GRADES 4–6 Where’s Wally? is a set of 28 Task Cards filled with clues to help your students find the state in which Wally is hiding. This is a FUN way to teach U.S. geography skills as your students eliminate states using the Task Card clues until only one state is left. The clues provide practice and reinforcement of state locations, state capitals, map directions, and following basic directions. The Task Cards are ideal for a game of Scoot (direction
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: U.S. Geography Bundle • GRADES 4–6 • • 3 Sets • SAVE! •
3 Branches of Government Task Cards Activity: Legislative, Executive, Judicial
These task cards are a great way for students to learn about the three branches of government.
This product contains 24 cards with multiple choice questions about the three branches of government. A recording sheet and an answer key are included. Blank cards are also included for questions to be added, if wanted. The same 24 cards are also available in a non-multiple choice option as well.
Important: Check out my other products on the Branches of Government:
1. Task Cards
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Branches of Government Task Cards and Activities Bundle: Civics
Economic Resources: Capital, Human & Natural Resources
Teaching your students about capital, human, and natural resources? Use this 8 page printable book, 24 picture task cards, and a quick assessment to make planning a breeze!
Use the printable book to introduce the three types of resources. Create a class set of books or print only a few to use in small groups or a reading center.
Print task cards to allow students time to apply and practice their understanding of the three types of resources. Use the picture task cards and recording sheet in
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1st - 4th
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Ancient Egypt Tomb - STEM Activity
Explore ancient Egypt with this Mummy, Sarcophagus and Tomb STEM activity. Students will gather their information to design and build a model of an ancient Egyptian tomb. This activity includes wrapping a mummy, the importance of including amulets, the sarcophagus and the burial chamber. This is a STEM challenge like no other. Your students will be immersed in the history, science and engineering designs of the times.With assessment rubrics included, teachers will find that this resource has eve
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3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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