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Preview of Who Am I? - Community Helpers Powerpoint Game #1

Who Am I? - Community Helpers Powerpoint Game #1

Created by
Teacher Gameroom
Community helpers games are great for teaching students about different community jobs. In this "Who am I" game, students must guess the community worker. There are 10 questions and you just click on each question to go to it. Each question has 3 clues and student have to guess which community helper it describes. Clues include tools they may use, what they do, and where they may work. Great for a whole class review or rainy day activity. Great for individual practice on the iPad! Extra licens
Preview of Errorless Learning File Folder Games and Activities BUNDLE for Special Education

Errorless Learning File Folder Games and Activities BUNDLE for Special Education

This bundle of errorless file folder games is perfect for getting your students started with independent work stations in your special education classroom. Practice matching, beginning sounds, letters, colors, shapes and 1:1 correspondence. The beauty of errorless learning is there is no wrong answer! Students learn how to complete left to right tasks and you can guarantee success without staff assistance.Some of the targeted skills include:Left to right task routineTask independenceOne to one
Preview of Sink That Ship - A Science of Reading Phonics Game

Sink That Ship - A Science of Reading Phonics Game

Sink That Ship: 120 Phonics Games! 120 phonics reading game boards to engage your students in reading fluency and word recognition! Includes reading phonics games for almost ALL PHONICS skills! Real and nonsense word game boards included to reinforce specific phonics skills for reading fluency. Players read words in hopes of sinking their opponent's ships. Endless fun with partners and your students won't even know they are practicing their reading!! Sink That Ship is the PERFECT game for your
Preview of Phonics Intervention Kit Games & Activities for Kindergarten, Digital Resources

Phonics Intervention Kit Games & Activities for Kindergarten, Digital Resources

This Phonics Intervention Kit and Activities is a standards-aligned way to help your struggling students with all areas of phonological awareness in an engaging way.Are you looking for an engaging way to help your struggling learners with foundational reading skills including phonological awareness, decoding, and encoding? Do you need an easy-prep way to ensure you're meeting the standards your students are struggling with? Do you want materials that you can use for classroom interventions indi
Preview of Rhyming Games and Activities Bundle for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten

Rhyming Games and Activities Bundle for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten

This Rhyming Activities Bundle is packed with hands-on rhyming games and activities! Rhyming games are a fun way for students to develop a strong phonological awareness. Students will first repeat rhymes, then identify if a word rhymes, and then be able to generate rhyming words on their own. Many activities will include using small manipulatives like clothespins, chains, connecting cubes, pom poms, or mini erasers so students will build their phonological awareness and strengthen their fine mot
Preview of Virtual Field Trip *Growing* Bundle! National Parks, Space & More!

Virtual Field Trip *Growing* Bundle! National Parks, Space & More!

Created by
Teach or Travel
ULTIMATE Virtual Field Trip *Growing* Bundle!12 trips and GROWING! This product will include all my future elementary field trips! Grab it now at the lowest price!! Bundle price will increase when new trips are added.⭐️NEW⭐️ MEMPHIS, TN Dr. MLK Jr. added 1/28/2024⭐️NEW⭐️ THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA added 5/22/2022 - Redownload to access!! Virtual Field Trips are an engaging activity for in person learning or online meetings. No matter the format of instruction, your students will be engaged! Use the
Preview of Multisyllabic Words: Artic, Phonological Awareness, Apraxia, Speech Therapy

Multisyllabic Words: Artic, Phonological Awareness, Apraxia, Speech Therapy

Created by
Speech2u
Syllable reduction significantly decreases a child's intelligibility. I created this product to help children practice producing multisyllabic words and identifying the number of syllables within a word. Pacing syllable dots are included to give a visual representation of how many syllables they need to produce. I usually have the child touch the syllable dots as they are producing their words and then fade to independent productions. Two sizes of pictures are included based on the student's
Preview of Geography & Map Skills - Reading a Map & Globe Activities & Worksheets

Geography & Map Skills - Reading a Map & Globe Activities & Worksheets

Make teaching mapping skills fun with this map skills mini unit! It covers geography and map navigation basics, including foundational vocabulary; using a compass rose, map key, and simple grid to navigate and read maps and globes; locating continents, oceans, poles, and the equator; and more.Here's what's included:Map Skills Anchor Charts and Vocabulary Cards (map, globe, equator, prime meridian, North Pole, South Pole, latitude, longitude, coordinate, compass rose, key, scale, physical feature
Preview of Christmas / Holiday Game Answer Battle Trivia Family Powerpoint Mac PC iPad

Christmas / Holiday Game Answer Battle Trivia Family Powerpoint Mac PC iPad

Created by
Think Games
✅ You can use this for your Virtual Party! Check out this video showing you how: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq2WIMvocYo ✅ This Christmas Answer Battle Trivia Powerpoint game is sure to be a big hit at your Christmas party, classroom, office party, or church.✅ It has 13 rounds like:- "Places parents hide presents," - "Name Santa's Reindeer," - "Birds Listed In The 12 Days Of Christmas," - "Common Christmas Cookie Shapes," - "Christmas Movies," etc. ✅ Each round has up to 10 answers (other
Preview of File Folder Games and Activities for Special Education Yearlong BUNDLE

File Folder Games and Activities for Special Education Yearlong BUNDLE

This mega bundle of over 1000+ file folder activities is perfect for independent work stations in your special education classroom! Never buy another set of file folder games with this comprehensive bundle.Includes both seasonal and holiday themed folders as well as hundreds of file folders you can use all year.Be sure to click preview to see a more comprehensive overview and pictures.Here’s how some teachers are using these file folder games and activities:Independent workDirect instructionCen
Preview of Roll and Read NWF Phonics Game | CVC Nonsense Word Fluency Practice

Roll and Read NWF Phonics Game | CVC Nonsense Word Fluency Practice

Roll and Read games are an engaging way for your students to practice decoding, word recognition, and oral reading fluency. More than a phonics worksheet, just add dice and go with this low-prep, high-FUN phonics game! Kindergarten and first grade nonsense word fluency practice has never been so engaging!This CVC nonsense word fluency reading activity supports the Science of Reading when accompanied by instruction that is explicit, sequential, systematic, prescriptive, diagnostic, and cumulative
Preview of 1st Grade Math Science Social Studies Boom Cards™ BUNDLE for Distance Learning

1st Grade Math Science Social Studies Boom Cards™ BUNDLE for Distance Learning

These 1st Grade Math, Science, and Social Studies Boom Cards™ were made to make practicing skills engaging and fun for young students. This bundle includes 34 Boom Card™ decks. These were made with first grade students in mind, but you can adapt it to your lessons to review the skills with second graders or to challenge high level kindergartners. Digital Centers are a great way for you to allow students to review and have enrichment during small group instruction or distance learning. Using th
Preview of Cariboo Cards: Year Round Theme and Seasonal Vocabulary Cards

Cariboo Cards: Year Round Theme and Seasonal Vocabulary Cards

Created by
Kari Radovich
Cariboo cards for all your themed speech and language therapy throughout the year!This product includes over 450 theme and seasonal vocabulary cards that fit in the slots for the game Cariboo, but can be used in other ways even without the game (i.e. sensory bins or printed in black and white on colored paper for craft activities!). ⭐Please note: this is now included in a larger, money-saving Cariboo Bundle Set that you can find here: Cariboo Bundle: Vocabulary, Verbs, Functions, Apraxia, and
Preview of Apraxia of Speech Interactive Picture Scenes and BOOM Cards l CV VC CVC

Apraxia of Speech Interactive Picture Scenes and BOOM Cards l CV VC CVC

Created by
Anna Dee SLP
Use these 34 open-ended interactive picture scenes for speech therapy to target a variety of early word shapes (CV, VC, CVCV). This activity is a fun, engaging, and natural way to treat articulation delays, phonological delays, and apraxia of speech and teach core words during distance learning and in-person sessions! Add this to your toolkit of telepractice speech therapy activities and use it immediately!.Your preschoolers, kindergarteners, and early elementary students will love PLAYING and u
Preview of Positive Behavior Activity: Behavior Bingo Counseling Game

Positive Behavior Activity: Behavior Bingo Counseling Game

Created by
Counselor Keri
This fun bingo-style game helps elementary school students differentiate between appropriate and inappropriate behavior (awesome actions and bummer behaviors). Using the behavior calling cards, students label behavior as an awesome action or bummer behavior and then have a discussion about the implications or consequences of the behavior and discuss replacement behaviors when necessary. This game is perfect for whole group classroom guidance lessons or small group counseling!Includes 30 BINGO ca
Preview of Careers, Community Helpers Guessing Game Digital & Printable

Careers, Community Helpers Guessing Game Digital & Printable

This Careers and Community Helpers Guessing Game makes learning about careers and community helpers interactive and FUN! Students pretend to be "Career Detectives" and use their clues to solve 17 riddles. ✅ Both a digital for Google Slides™ and a PowerPoint version of the presentation are included, as well as a printable mini coloring book!✨THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES:✅ A digital for Google Slides™ Career Guessing Game with 17 clever career riddles. Students (or educators) read the riddle, use the cl
Preview of Community Helpers and Occupations Bingo Game

Community Helpers and Occupations Bingo Game

This community helpers bingo game will help your students learn about occupations in their community. For an easy game simply use the teacher calling cards to call out the name of a community helper. For a more challenging game read one of the clues on the calling cards so the students can decipher the occupation.The community helpers included in this game are:-doctor-fire fighter-trash collector-waiter-life guard-nurse-chef-veterinarian-farmer-crossing guard-teacher-mail carrier-forest ranger-
Preview of Goods & Services Sort Cards for Economics Kindergarten & First Grade

Goods & Services Sort Cards for Economics Kindergarten & First Grade

Created by
Class of Kinders
This resource provides 18 sorting cards to help facilitate talks about economics…specifically goods and services! Perfect for a pocket chart lesson or add magnets and use on a magnetic surface.Includes:Goods and Services header cards with simple definition11 goods cards7 services cardsUse for whole group sorting, or Kagan games like quiz, quiz trade….or place in a center as a follow up to your economics lesson.If you need other goods and services resources check my TPT store for posters and an e
Preview of Science and Social Studies Adapted Activities for Special Education BUNDLE

Science and Social Studies Adapted Activities for Special Education BUNDLE

Are you struggling to differentiate science and social studies topics for your students with special needs? Look no further, I've got you covered!Science and Social Studies materials are hard to come by for a self-contained special education setting. This bundle contains many different adapted and differentiated activities to use while teaching your students with special needs about various Science & Social Studies topics!What you will find inside this bundle:Adapted BooksCount It Out Adapte
Preview of Letter Recognition Games - Bug Splat Alphabet Game

Letter Recognition Games - Bug Splat Alphabet Game

Review and revise the letters of the alphabet with this fun, hands-on game! Your little learners will be totally engaged while they splat the upper-case and lower-case bugs!Includes QLD Beginners Font, NSW Foundation Font, VIC Modern Cursive Font, SA Font, TAS Font and a Standard Elementary Font suitable for all!What's included?26 lower-case bug cards26 upper-case bug cards"Excellent. Easy to print and use. Kids love splatting bugs! - KimberleyHow to play:Sit your little learners in a circle a
Preview of Needs and Wants Bingo Game - Social Studies Kindergarten & First

Needs and Wants Bingo Game - Social Studies Kindergarten & First

Created by
Class of Kinders
Teaching needs & wants? Want a fun and engaging way to practice identifying examples of needs and wants? This bingo game produces good conversations and provides opportunities for fun & learning!INCLUDES:18 bingo boards. Each one has a different configuration. Have more than 18 students? No worries, just print as many as needed. More than one BINGO winner is even better! 36 needs/wants bingo call cards (2 sheets of needs/2 sheets of wants)To play: teacher will call a picture using a call
Preview of Map Skills: Hands On Maps Center Social Studies

Map Skills: Hands On Maps Center Social Studies

Hands-on maps center. Introduce beginning maps skills with this hands-on maps center. Includes: pictorial directions on set-up, "I can" directions, key, compass rose, task cards, interactive map pieces (picture cards of places in a community), differentiated recording sheets, map elements flip book in 3 levels and a "Build Your Own Compass Rose" activities.Use this map learning pack to teach kids beginning map skills! - Flip Books- Interactive "Build a Map" center- "Build Your Own Compass Ro
Preview of Being a Good Citizen at Home, at School, and in the Community

Being a Good Citizen at Home, at School, and in the Community

Created by
Kristen Campbell
You can use these cards in many ways. 1. Print these cards, cut them out, and use them as a visual introduction to citizenship. • Show the students these cards and ask them if the children shown are being good citizens or if they are following rules at home, school, or in the community. • Use these cards as discussion starters. Show a particular card and ask the students what they should do if someone else is not being a good citizen. 2. Print these cards, cut them out, and laminate them.
Preview of Geography Unit for Special Education

Geography Unit for Special Education

Make geography concepts accessible to all learners with this comprehensive unit tailored for special education teachers and parents of autistic students. Designed for easy understanding, the visually-based resources include multiple versions of each activity, ensuring differentiation for various learning styles. The unit features engaging games, printables, flashcards, and an adapted book, making geography an enjoyable social studies theme in your classroom. The extensive content includes flashc
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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.

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.

Teaching with social studies resources

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.

Frequently asked questions about teaching social studies

What types of social studies lessons are available on TPT?

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.

How do I find social studies lessons on TPT?

Educators can save time preparing history lessons with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply start a search for social studies resources on the TPT marketplace, and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find materials that've been proven to work in classrooms like yours. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of social studies lessons and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.