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High school Back to School social studies task cards
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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Spanish Speaking Countries BUNDLE Project Maps Flip Book Quizzes + DIGITAL
This money-saving bundle has everything you need to teach the Spanish-speaking countries, their locations, and capitals! Includes maps, quizzes, project, activities, and more! Save over 30% on this bundle of the following items:Spanish-Speaking Countries Flip BookNo cut, no waste, 6 page / 3 pieces of paper printable flip bookDigital flip book in Google Slides for paperless or distance learningWestern Europe map to label SpainWest Africa map to label Equatorial GuineaCentral America / North Am
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6th - 12th
Back to School Station Task Card (Get-to-Know-You) Activity for Secondary
This engaging, get-to-know-you first day of school activity is perfect for secondary students. Make the beginning of the school year fun and help your students fall in love with your class!This station task card activity gets your students up and moving while getting to know each other and providing meaningful ways for you to get to know them! Perfect combo!There are six stations included: “Find Someone Who…” (with a fun twist) StationClassroom Survey StationDraw Your Summer StationWrite a Lette
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Back to School BUNDLE for Secondary Teachers
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
Back to School ICEBREAKER Activity: "Can you follow directions?" FUN Grades 6-12
Have your middle and high school students "belly-laughing" from the beginning of the year with this unique "Icebreaker" activity! Want to know more? I break down the "ins and outs" of this activity on YouTube: The Classroom Icebreaker YOU NEED | Can You Follow Directions? | Back to School Resource What's included? + 36 "Direction" TASK CARDS+ Directions for Implementing the Activity+ 1 Blank Task Card Template (6 task cards)Each card has a different instruction in the following format: "After s
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: ELA Common Core Task Cards - MEGA Bundle - CCSS Reading and Writing
Spanish 1 Review Task Cards | Back to School Review Activity
Want to review everything your students learned in Spanish 1 before they leave for the summer OR go over Spanish 1 concepts at the beginning of Spanish 2 to refresh your students' memories? This task card set comes with 48 cards to get your students up and moving while reviewing topics learned in Spanish 1. Students will be engaged as they complete various tasks on the included response sheet like conjugating regular and irregular verbs in the present tense, filling in the blank with the correct
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5th - 12th
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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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Welcome Banner • Collaborative Poster for Back to School
Get ready to welcome your guests in style with this amazing "Welcome Banner"! Perfect for back to school, conference night, special guests, grandparents' day, school board visits, or to brighten up your entrance. Get ready to hear lots of compliments and questions about how you did it ... you can decide if you want to tell them how easy it was!The phrase "Welcome to our school" runs through the banner, making it clear to everyone who enters your school that they are welcome and valued. And the b
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3rd - 10th
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Black Death or Bubonic Plague History, Science & Math Lesson Activity Set
This is a completely cross-curricular class lesson in history (Middle Ages or Feudal Europe), science, and math! This product is a collaboration of history, science, and math teachers! Here’s what’s included:⭐A fun introduction handshake-spread of disease simulation with lesson instructions, discussion questions and lesson introduction reading. Students simulate/experience how diseases spread exponentially!⭐A Science Behind the Bubonic Plague reading with a graphic organizer!⭐A History Behind th
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4th - 10th
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BUNDLED September Unique Learning Systems Task Boxes- Unit 1 Government
**Save 40%** Need extra independent tasks to pair with Unique Learning System (ULS) lessons? I’ve got you covered! These interactive independent task boxes & work stations use Symbolstix images to coordinate with the Unique Learning System (ULS) September Unit 1--Government Rules & Laws. **monthly digital versions coming soon!**This file includes:* addition task cards (1-10) with worksheet* subtraction task cards (1-10) with worksheet * tens frames 1-10* tens frames to 1-20* tens frames
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PreK - 12th
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World War 2 Task Cards: Battles, People, & Events of WW2
This fantastic set of task cards for World War II includes 40 activity cards to cover everything related to the war for a World or US History class. The download features 10 pages with 4 cards each to engage students. These can be cut up and placed around the room as stations, given to groups at a table, or gone through individually to cover all the different aspects of WW2.A recording sheet is included for students to write their answers on as well as an answer key for your convenience.These ma
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6th - 11th
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English Reading & Writing Bell Ringers Exit Slips Pack Vol 1
Common Core Reading and Writing Bell Ringers Exit Slips BUNDLE, Volume 1
This IS included in my growing bundle: ALL of My Bell Ringer and Exit Slip Resources.
Do you need a collection of ready-to-print bell ringers/exit slips that you can use all year long? Try my bundle of 155 unique activities that can be used more than once throughout the year. *Newly updated to include back-to-school icebreaker activities AND signs to hang on your bulletin board or other display to showcase student work. I
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6th - 11th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for Jen W.
Spanish 1 Review Present Super 7 Spanish End of the Year Activities Sub Plans
This Google Slides Spanish 1 review activity was designed as a review of all Super 7 verbs in Mis Clases Locas High-Frequency Verb Unit - Novice Present Tense 1 (Original Unit or Distance/Hybrid Unit). This digital Spanish back to school review activity includes versions of the verbs: es, tiene, le gusta, hay, está, va & quiere. This digital Spanish 1 review would be great for middle school exploratory Spanish, Spanish 1, or as a back to school review activity to start Spanish 2 or Spanish 3
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7th - 10th
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Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Task Cards Bundle
Add depth and complexity to your instruction with this Critical Thinking Task Cards Bundle! You are getting all 3 (Science, History and/or Social Studies, and Literature) of my Critical Thinking Task Cards. That's 264 unique task cards! These sets are $21.00 if purchased separately; Save $4!These tasks cards allow students to deeply analyze any fiction and nonfiction reading material through 11 topics of critical thinking: Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics,
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4th - 10th, Adult Education
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World War I Project Menu- No prep, share and go!
This no prep, share or print and go project menu gives students the opportunity to be engaged in activities which deepen their understanding of World War I while sharpening their critical thinking, writing, research, and even artistic skills. Since this is a PDF file, this product may be easily shared with students so that they may view directions virtually and complete project activities either virtually or on paper. A detailed grading rubric is included for each option, as well as specific ins
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5th - 9th
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Spanish Conversation Speaking Question Cards, Task Cards BUNDLE of Ice Breakers
Are you struggling to get your students speaking in Spanish in class? This growing bundle of differentiated interpersonal speaking activities was designed as a communicative task card option to get Spanish students talking and moving. These question task cards would be great for students who have some Spanish background knowledge such as late Spanish 1, Spanish 2, Spanish 3, or Spanish 4 to talk about a variety of topics. These are student-centered, differentiated task card activities for Spanis
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8th - 12th
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Primary Sources Activities - Primary vs. Secondary Sources Lessons Task Cards
Identify primary sources and differentiate between primary sources vs. secondary sources with this engaging mini-unit! Primary sources activities include an introductory slide presentation or primary sources powerpoint, Primary vs. Secondary Sources Task Cards, and a Primary Source Analysis activity. Your students will benefit by improving their ability to select credible sources during research!Use these materials to introduce primary sources or to implement primary sources document analysis!Th
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7th - 10th
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Back to School Spanish Get to Know You Task Cards in Spanish & English + DIGITAL
Are you looking for Spanish back to school activities for your class? Get to know your students and get students up and moving with these Back to School / Get to Know You Task Cards in Spanish and English. NEW: now includes a Google Forms™ format for distance, paperless or digital learning.These task cards are a great way to get to know your students at the beginning of the school year. This set contains 28 get-to-know you questions in English (for beginner level I) and in Spanish.It also inclu
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6th - 12th
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Vocational Stocking Practice with Personal Care Products Work Task Box Activity
Vocational Skills are important! Making them functional, purposeful and relatable take it to the next level! Here is the complete vocational skills set-up to create a vocational stocking practice with a store front in your vocational classroom or any worked based classroom. Great for autism to other students working on their vocational goals! Contrary to Pinterest pictures, you don't have to create a complete store front wall to complete this task! Check out the pictures for other ideas on h
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Special Education Vocational Stocking Practice Work Tasks BUNDLE
Amendments 1 - 27 Task Cards and Walk the Room - Bundle!
Once children learn about the Bill of Rights and Amendments 11 - 27, challenge them to see if they understand them! Students will be presented with:
58 contemporary problems and historical scenarios that can be solved using Amendments 1 - 27
58 Walk the Room placards that are bigger than a task card and can be displayed across the room or in the hallway
A handout that includes all the slides for absent students.
An answer key
This is a bundle of the following two items. Buy this bundle and you
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5th - 9th
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GRAPES Lesson and Activities for History, Social Studies
These activities are perfect for providing students with the information they need to use the GRAPES acronym all year long in your history class! Use as as an introductory unit before studying your first civilization or historical time period. Great for building student interest in ancient history! Check preview for details! All digital versions are Google Slides resources.INCLUDED:Presentation: Introductory GRAPES presentation with 25+ slides including definitions, examples, graphics, and key
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5th - 12th
Also included in: GRAPES History Resource Bundle
Latitude and Longitude Task Cards - World, US, and Canadian Capital Cities
LATITUDE & LONGITUDE - Three sets of task cards to help students practice finding locations with a set of latitude and longitude coordinates. Using gnomes as a theme (thinking of gnomes who have traveled the world and sent home notes) each task card is written like a postcard. Set 1 - students are given a set of coordinates and must locate the world capital city. (12 cards)Set 2 - students are given a world capital city and must figure out the latitude and longitude of the city. (12 card
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Latitude and Longitude Bundle - Activities, Task Cards, & Posters
1st Day of School Spanish Task Cards Spanish Back to School Activity Mi Verano
This first day of Spanish class activity was designed as communicative back-to-school option to get students talking and moving using Spanish mi verano task cards. It would be great for students who have some Spanish background knowledge such as Spanish 2, Spanish 3, or Spanish 4 to talk about what they did over the summer. It is a great icebreaker for the first week of school. These mi verano question task cards are a perfect way to review or introduce the past tense (preterite). Even if studen
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10th - 12th
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16 Bright Chevron Editable Task Cards Templates PPT or Slides™
16 Bright Chevron Editable Task Cards Templates PPT or Google Slides™Includes:16 blank doodle frames over backgrounds in a variety of colors and patterns including red, lime, aqua, yellow, purple, red, and multi-colored. These would be great for your chevron classroom decor! Be sure to look at the preview to see a larger version of all the templates.Templates are ready for you to begin typing. If you prefer not to add text, then you can delete the text boxes and print the cards to use as a borde
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PreK - 12th, Staff
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- Become active, responsible, and engaged citizens
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