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Preview of All About Me Craft Kid - Back to School Activities

All About Me Craft Kid - Back to School Activities

This All About Me craftivity is so so CUTE! Kids and parents will love it. Great for All About Me Social Studies units, Back to School, or Open House.I like to use this craft at the beginning of the year. It's a fun way to get students excited about writing while allowing them to share about themselves and get to know each other.These are ADORABLE in the hallway during Open House.
Preview of Rainbow Classroom Job Chart

Rainbow Classroom Job Chart

Classroom job chart in a RAINBOW design made with little learners in mind! Use classroom jobs in your class to build a sense of community and give students some responsibility. This set will help you manage your classroom jobs. This has been designed to use a clip chart but can also be used in a pocket chart or placed on library pockets. ►►SAVE over 20% and buy the Rainbow Design Classroom Decor BUNDLE ►► This set is NOT editable. Included: 4 Classroom Job Headers to choose from. 52 Job C
Preview of 3 STEP STORY PICTURE SEQUENCING ACTIVITY KINDERGARTEN SEQUENCE OF EVENT CARDS

3 STEP STORY PICTURE SEQUENCING ACTIVITY KINDERGARTEN SEQUENCE OF EVENT CARDS

Created by
FREE YOUR HEART
3-STEP SEQUENCING CARDS (78 TOTAL) INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCE! (26 SEQUENCING SETS EACH CONTAINING 3 CARDS)Children will love these 3-step sequencing cards! The cards are color coded to help sort cards belonging to the same set. A sorting mat is also included so that kids can place their cards on it as they sequence the cards. These sequencing cards will help develop children's thinking skills.All you have to do is print the resources on cardstock paper and cut out. Shuffle the required cards
Preview of Nonsense Word Fluency Practice Sheets | Oral Reading Fluency | NWF Activity

Nonsense Word Fluency Practice Sheets | Oral Reading Fluency | NWF Activity

These nonsense word fluency practice pages will help you assess and monitor your students' oral reading fluency with make-believe words- a foundational skill that builds oral reading fluency with real words. This nonsense word activity will save you time and allow you monitor your students growth over the course of the year. Complete with teacher and student copies, as well as recording sheets for teachers, teaching students to read nonsense words has never been easier to manage! These align per
Preview of Alphabet Bingo Game Beginning Sounds and Letter Names

Alphabet Bingo Game Beginning Sounds and Letter Names

A fun alphabet game for up to 30 children to learn beginning sounds and letter names. It's a literacy center kiddos will love! Friendly picture mnemonics look like the initial letter. Includes:✅ 26 Alphabet Calling Cards✅ 30 Bingo Playing Cards✅ 54 Color TilesBONUS⭐ Vowel Bookmarks⭐ Alphabet Page - All letters in uppercase and lowercase with a key picture on one page! Integrated Picture Mnemonics help children remember their letters!That's 30 Bingo cards for up to 30 students!NEW Now includes 20
Preview of Fine Motor Skills Activities Worksheet Tracing Lines Preschool PreK Morning Work

Fine Motor Skills Activities Worksheet Tracing Lines Preschool PreK Morning Work

Fine motor skills activities worksheets are effective! Preschool / pre K morning work and tracing lines worksheets can be fun! This fine motor activities tracing lines packet is a collection of 101 pages of no prep, fun and effective worksheets, cards, and coloring pages that help students build fine motor skills, and increase hand-eye coordination and pencil control. The cards can also be used for cutting activities. ⭐️⭐️ This resource is included in Fine Motor Tracing Lines, Shapes, Letters, N
Preview of Veteran's Day Writing Craft - Patriotic Activity

Veteran's Day Writing Craft - Patriotic Activity

This patriotic writing activity and craft makes a memorable pennant banner for service men and women in your community as we celebrate Patriot Day, Veteran's Day or any patriotic celebration. String the banner together and hang this craft in your classroom or send it off to those that help protect and defend our country. The pennants include a back side writing portion to write a letter or writing of your choice.Connect with Me!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecreativeclassroom/Facebook:
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 Community Helper Craft | Career Day Puppets

Community Helper Craft | Career Day Puppets

Help your 1st graders learn about community helpers in an exciting and creative way with these fun puppets! With 16 different community helpers to choose from, plus a Can/Have/Are graphic organizer, your students will be able to role play and learn about the various roles in the community. Perfect for summer school, these puppets come in both color and black and white, so you can save time and energy. Let your students explore the world of community helpers with these fun puppets! ✅ YOU MIGHT AL
Preview of Community Helpers Thematic Unit: Activities and Printables

Community Helpers Thematic Unit: Activities and Printables

Let's meet the helpers in our community! This unit is filled with supplemental activities to engage your students as you explore the world of community helpers! In this unit, you will find: hands on activities, arts and crafts, song and game ideas, math and language arts printables, and so much more! Contains:1. Recommended Book List2. Word Wall {12 helpers: dentist, doctor, farmer, firefighter, police officer, mail carrier, teacher, construction worker, baker, judge, scientist, trash collector
Preview of Community Helpers Workers Activities 1st Grade Kindergarten Social Studies

Community Helpers Workers Activities 1st Grade Kindergarten Social Studies

Created by
Fishyrobb
This set of activities will help students understand workers in their community and the jobs they do. Includes workers, jobs and occupations, vehicles, and city services.Includes:Helpers and Jobs Sorting CardsMatch the picture of the worker with the correct name and job description. These work well as a whole group pocket-chart activity. Includes 26 cards.Workers, Vehicles, and City Buildings CardsThese make a fun matching activity for young learners or vocabulary development for your ESL/ELL st
Preview of Personal Space - Interactive Social Skills Story/Narrative With Visuals & More

Personal Space - Interactive Social Skills Story/Narrative With Visuals & More

This social narrative focuses on respecting others' personal space at school. This story can be used by special education teachers, classroom teachers, speech pathologists, and more. This interactive story on personal space will engage young learners and learners who struggle to maintain focus. Learn more by checking out the previews. This social skills story is included in my growing interactive social skills story bundle. Check it out and save big to get all of my stories!What's included with
Preview of Preschool Worksheets for NO PREP Homeschool Binder Toddler Busy Book Activities

Preschool Worksheets for NO PREP Homeschool Binder Toddler Busy Book Activities

These toddler and preschool worksheets are perfect to add to your NO PREP centers or binder! Laminate them for your centers or simply slide into sheet protectors to add to a binder for repeated use! Either use dry erase markers for tracing practice or combine fine motor skills practice by adding pompoms, play dough, etc!CLICK HERE to add more NO PREP Preschool worksheets to your binder!This also makes a super simple Preschool assessment, allowing you to check for understanding in a developmental
Preview of Community Helper Hats

Community Helper Hats

Created by
The Kinder Kids
Community Helper Hats - Public Service Recognition Week - Local HerosUpdate! I've added an editable version too!These Community Helper Hats are in landscape format and measure 8.5 x 11. They are available in color or black and white. Students will color, cut and glue/staple the hat together. Let the children learn about our community helper roles with fun and creativity!Roles included are:Construction workerWaitressHousekeeperDetectiveFirefighterFishermanAnglerTour GuidePolice OfficerMailmanChe
Preview of Printable Chinese Dragon Puppet Craftivity Template - Chinese New Year Craft

Printable Chinese Dragon Puppet Craftivity Template - Chinese New Year Craft

Celebrate Chinese New Year with your students by making this wonderful Chinese Dragon Paper Puppet. Perfect activity for both small and large groups of kids.This activity is a great addition to Chinese New Year study in preschool, kindergarten, grade 1 and higher.This is a wonderful craftivity that is easy to make so it's perfect to do in the classroom.This puppet is also available in our pintable Character puppets bundleCelebrate or appreciate Chinese New Year.
Preview of Groundhog Day Pattern Hat

Groundhog Day Pattern Hat

Will your Groundhogs see their shadows? 2 pattern Gorund hog faces for the price of 1. Celebrate Groundhog Day with this simple to make Groundhog Day hat. Have the children act out whether or not, they too will get to see their shadows on Feb. 2. Have the kids color, cut, and you staple to a sentence strip. And off they go to look for their shadows.
Preview of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Craft and Activities

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Craft and Activities

Are you looking for some fun activities to introduce Kindergarten and 1st Grade students to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr? I have developed this focus on how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Peacemaker. We talk about the difference between a Peacemaker and a Peacebreaker. Then, students write about how they can be a Peacemaker. There are several engaging activities in this mini unit for you.Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Craft Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Writing PromptsDr. Martin Luther King Jr. Peacemak
Preview of Martin Luther King Jr.- Early Reader Kindergarten and First Grade- MLK Day

Martin Luther King Jr.- Early Reader Kindergarten and First Grade- MLK Day

Created by
Melissa Williams
Finding nonfiction materials at an appropriate level for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day for young students is always difficult!! With that thought in mind, I created this little book about Martin Luther King for MLK Day in kindergarten (or first grade) classrooms!! This book has one fact per page with illustrations to support young readers. Many sight words are used to support early readers as they begin to read nonfiction text. Title Page: Martin Luther King, Jr. Page 2: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Preview of Needs and Wants Sort Activities + FREE Spanish

Needs and Wants Sort Activities + FREE Spanish

Created by
Nikki and Nacho
Boost engagement with this fun, interactive resource about needs and wants. It includes vocabulary cards, individual and group sorting activities, graphic organizers, a coloring sheet, a word building activity, a drawing sheet and more! It works great for boosting academic vocabulary while learning and reviewing the content. This resource was created by Nikki and Nacho - previously known as Nicole and Eliceo.TEACHER-FRlENDLY FEATURESThis resource has been teacher-tested and approved, downloads i
Preview of Imitating Actions With Objects For Special Education

Imitating Actions With Objects For Special Education

Imitation is the basis for developing new skills in all areas of development. This is especially true for learning communication and developing social skills. Babies and toddlers learn new things quickly and efficiently by cueing in and watching those around them. For autistic children, imitation is often difficult. This resource will help you start to address imitation by encouraging imitation with objects.This resource includes 3 sets of flashcards (12 in each set). These "actions with obje
Preview of Calm Down Kit For Calming Corner In Special Education

Calm Down Kit For Calming Corner In Special Education

Have you noticed that your students are coming into school more dysregulated than ever? This Calming Kit is a great addition to your Calming Corner. If you are a parent, are you needing some visuals and strategies to help with self-regulation at home? This is for you too! If you are like me, you have needed to use more co-regulation techniques in your early childhood special education classroom (early elementary too!). You may wonder, "how can I start teaching my young autistic students/chil
Preview of Learning Colors Printable Worksheets to Practice Identification & Color Words

Learning Colors Printable Worksheets to Practice Identification & Color Words

Are you introducing or reinforcing colors and color words to your toddler in preschool? These printable coloring worksheet pages are full of fine motor activities: color, trace, cut, and paste color words and images that correspond with the color.You may also be interested in Color Books Bundle. What is included?✔ 3 Color Activities for each color: - Red - Orange - Yellow - Green - Blue - Purple - Pink - Brown - Gray - Black - White✔ 2 Color Activities for multip
Preview of Apraxia of Speech Word List for Speech Therapy

Apraxia of Speech Word List for Speech Therapy

Created by
Anna Dee SLP
This word list was created to help busy SLPs, like you, save time while choosing targets for children with Apraxia. Thinking of words can be time consuming. Use this easy to use and comprehensive list to help you choose target words in a jiffy!This word list includes:a variety of word shapes: CV VC CVCV CVCearly developing sounds: w h p b t d m n k g f v s zexclamatory wordsfunctional words/phrasescarrier phrasespersonal wordsInterested in picture cards to correspond with this list (includes ca
Preview of Me On the Map Activities and Map Skills Flip book for First Grade Social Studies

Me On the Map Activities and Map Skills Flip book for First Grade Social Studies

This circle book corresponds perfectly to the classic book, Me on the Map! The Me on the Map flip book shows maps from the book from smallest to biggest to make a powerful visual of our place in the world for kids!Just staple the Me on the Map flip book at the top when it's assembled. THIS ME ON THE MAP FLIPBOOK COMES IN 2 VERSIONSVersion with patterned sentences (Here is my planet. It is ____.) and labels already on the pages; Version with no sentences and labels to cut and paste in the appro
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Find Social Studies - History resources | TPT

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.