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Preschool social studies games for early intervention

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 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 Color Sorting - Crayon Color Match Activity - Learning Colors - Sorting by Color

Color Sorting - Crayon Color Match Activity - Learning Colors - Sorting by Color

Kids love this interactive, hands-on color activity for toddlers, preschool, pre-k, early childhood, childcare, early intervention, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and SPED classrooms. Use this fun color sorting activity to work on basic concepts and pre-math concepts.Children will have the opportunity to work on color identificationsortingcounting skillsfine motor skills The set includes printable crayon box pouches in 11 colors and 6 crayons in each of the 11 colors. The colors include
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 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 Spider Activities | Halloween Color & Size Sorting Spiders for Preschool & Prek

Spider Activities | Halloween Color & Size Sorting Spiders for Preschool & Prek

Use this FUN & ENGAGING spider themed color match and sorting by size activity to teach color identification, sorting by color and size, counting, and more. These HANDS-ON learning activities are EASILY DIFFERENTIATED and are perfect for preschool, pre-k, or SPED classrooms.  The engaging activities are perfect for your spider theme, Halloween theme, bug theme, or October units and lesson plans. These EASY-TO-PREP activities can be used as independent or small group activities. ✅ SAVE TIME!
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 Christmas Gingerbread Man Color Matching & Size Sorting Activities Preschool

Christmas Gingerbread Man Color Matching & Size Sorting Activities Preschool

Are you looking for some hands-on gingerbread activities for your math centers? Your kids will love this cut gingerbread man color matching and size sorting and size sorting activity and it's perfect for your Christmas math activities and holiday fun with a gingerbread theme. This set is perfect for preschool, pre-k, child care, homeschool, early intervention, tot school, and SPED learning centers. Use these hands-on, easy-to-differentiate gingerbread man activities for a variety of learning a
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 Body Parts | Parts of the Body | My Body Activities

Body Parts | Parts of the Body | My Body Activities

Created by
The Gift of Gab
Are you looking for a set of comprehensive and engaging activities to teach the parts of the body? Look no further, because this body parts activity packet has everything you need to teach your students about the parts of the body!Save 30% AND get a year's worth of thematic units by purchasing the bundle!The following body parts are included in this resource: eye, mouth, tongue, hand, nose, ear, arm, finger, fingernails, foot, knee, leg, lips, shoulders, stomach, teeth, thumb, toes, wrist, ankle
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 Syllable Activities Bundle for Preschool, Pre-K, Kindergarten

Syllable Activities Bundle for Preschool, Pre-K, Kindergarten

The Syllable Activities Bundle is packed with hands-on syllable games and activities to teach students to listen carefully to sounds, segment parts in words, and count syllables to strengthen their phonological awareness. Syllable games are a fun way for students to develop a strong phonological awareness by chunking syllables (parts in words). Students will practice syllable segmenting and counting syllables. Many activities will include using small manipulatives like clothespins, chains, conn
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 Bear Says Thanks Preschool Book Companion for Speech Therapy with BOOM Cards

Bear Says Thanks Preschool Book Companion for Speech Therapy with BOOM Cards

Created by
Kari Radovich
This book companion for Bear Says Thanks will give you a variety of easy-to-implement activities (many are low prep to no prep!) for common preschool language goals such as WH questions, sequencing, and object functions. You'll be able to simplify your planning by using the materials included and just one book for your therapy sessions! *NOW COMES WITH BOOM CARDS FOR STORY SEQUENCING AND STORY RETELL!*Updated 11/15/21Here's what you get:•6 dot marker WH question and basic concept pages•30 object
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 Alphabet Puzzles BUNDLE - Alphabet Activity for Preschool, Pre-K, Kindergarten

Alphabet Puzzles BUNDLE - Alphabet Activity for Preschool, Pre-K, Kindergarten

Alphabet Puzzles are a fun, hands-on alphabet activity to teach letter identification and letter sounds, building their phonemic awareness skills. These are perfect for morning tubs, literacy tubs, small group, early finishers, table time, arrival activity, or center activity. This is a growing bundle! More sets will be added soon. Once the new sets are added, just download it again for your update. Save BIG and buy the bundle!Puzzle Sets included in this Bundle:2-Piece Alphabet Letter Puzzles3-
Preview of Speech Therapy Boom Cards l Play Based Sound Loaded Articulation Games

Speech Therapy Boom Cards l Play Based Sound Loaded Articulation Games

Created by
Anna Dee SLP
Your students will love these sound loaded speech therapy games! These TWENTY sound-loaded BOOM card activities feature the trifecta of preschool therapy: finding things, feeding animals, and moving! These activities are play-based, which means your student's target words that will occur naturally throughout the activity. Your students won't even know they are learning and will keep them engaged during your entire teletherapy session. Your students will love the finding food for the animals to e
Preview of BACK TO SCHOOL BOOM CARDS ACTIVITY KINDERGARTEN GAME GOOD & BAD CHOICES SORT

BACK TO SCHOOL BOOM CARDS ACTIVITY KINDERGARTEN GAME GOOD & BAD CHOICES SORT

Created by
FREE YOUR HEART
GOOD CHOICES VS BAD CHOICES BOOM CARDS GAME (BACK TO SCHOOL ACTIVITIES K-2)This fun digital game is perfect for back to school and is specifically aimed to help kids identify good and bad choices. It contains 34 playable cards and could also be used throughout the year to reinforce good and bad choices. Kids have to look at each picture, determine if the action depicted is a good or bad choice and click the corresponding answer (thumbs up for good choice and thumbs down for bad choice). This
Preview of Thanksgiving BINGO | Thanksgiving Vocabulary Activities | Thanksgiving Games

Thanksgiving BINGO | Thanksgiving Vocabulary Activities | Thanksgiving Games

Embrace the spirit of gratitude with this captivating Thanksgiving BINGO game! Designed to complement your autumn celebrations, it's the perfect addition to your Thanksgiving party. Thanksgiving BINGO can be enjoyed by students of all ages. With this game, you'll seamlessly integrate Thanksgiving vocabulary and articulation practice for a memorable learning experience.Featuring 30 vibrant BINGO cards in both color and black/white, complete with options with and without words, versatility is key.
Preview of Interactive S'more Articulation Activity: Summer Speech

Interactive S'more Articulation Activity: Summer Speech

Interactive S’more Articulation is a 31-page download that includes activities to practice articulation skills. The interactive activity features 612 marshmallow articulation cards. The following sounds are targeted in the initial and final positions: P, B, M, T, D, F, V, K, G, S, R, Vocalic R, SH, CH, TH, and J. The following blends are targeted in the initial positions: L blends, R blends, and S blends. The packet includes a campfire poster, marshmallow bag covers, 612 marshmallow cards with
Preview of Owl Sorting by Color & Sorting by Size Activities - Matching Colors & Size Sort

Owl Sorting by Color & Sorting by Size Activities - Matching Colors & Size Sort

Teach color identification and size sorting with this owl color sorting activity set. A perfect hands-on math activity for toddler, preschool, pre-k SPED, and early childhood education classrooms. Perfect for your owl theme, fall theme, or autumn theme activiteis or lesson plans.*Please note that this activity is part of my Owls - Activities for Preschool and Early Childhood Themes If you have purchased the money-saving bundle, you do not need to purchase this activity. .Please download the
Preview of #wemadeit Snap Cube Numbers 1-20 | Fine Motor Skills

#wemadeit Snap Cube Numbers 1-20 | Fine Motor Skills

These Math Connecting Cube Number Building Mats are a great way to have your little scholars learn to identify the numbers 1-20. This math center will engage all learners while making learning fun! If you are looking for a fine motor activity that is fun and engaging, you are in luck! These learning math mats are designed to help students practice identifying numbers 1-20 by using snap cubes to build numbers. With these snap cube number mats, your kindergarten, pre-k, or preschool students w
Preview of Phonemic Awareness & Phonics Feast {Feed Me!} featuring The Hungry Thing

Phonemic Awareness & Phonics Feast {Feed Me!} featuring The Hungry Thing

Created by
Hello Literacy
#basketbargains This fun & educational two week unit is perfect for the beginning of the year when your emerging young readers are learning to recognize rhyming patterns in language, a foundational pre-reading phonemic awareness skill. Research shows that learning to recognize and produce rhyming patterns helps students develop decoding skills. This language based unit is aligned to the book, The Hungry Thing. (Having the book is not necessary for this unit--see note below.) These phonemic
Preview of Social Skills for Autism: Personal Space- My Space Bubble Activities

Social Skills for Autism: Personal Space- My Space Bubble Activities

Created by
Katrina Bevan
Personal space is an important social skill for children to learn. This pack help teach students what personal space is and how to follow the 'rules'.Beginning with a social story, the concept of personal space is explain and visuals are introduced to help students imagine a 'bubble' around them and their friends. If you re respecting personal space then you are a good space pilot. If you burst your friends personal space then you are a space invader! The story gives examples of these two co
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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.