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Kindergarten Thanksgiving social studies resources for GATE
Dinner Table STEM Challenge - Thanksgiving STEM Activity
***SAVE BIG WITH THE THANKSGIVING STEM BUNDLE!***This low prep, Thanksgiving themed STEM/STEAM activity is perfect to engage your elementary engineers in November! With a focus on furniture engineering, this activity is always a fun way to celebrate fall.Includes the following components for DINNER TABLE STEM ACTIVITY:Detailed Lesson Plan with Standards, Supply Checklist, and Suggested Read AloudsDigital Google Slides Notebook for Paperless Recording and Interactive DisplaysKey Visual Vocabulary
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Grades:
K - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
Turkey Hideout STEM Challenge - Thanksgiving STEM Activity
***SAVE BIG WITH THE THANKSGIVING STEM BUNDLE!***This low prep, Thanksgiving themed STEM/STEAM activity is perfect to engage your elementary engineers in November! With a focus on engineering, this activity is always a fun way to celebrate fall.Includes the following components for TURKEY HIDEOUT STEM ACTIVITY:Detailed Lesson Plan with Standards, Supply Checklist, and Suggested Read AloudsDigital Google Slides Notebook for Paperless Recording and Interactive DisplaysKey Visual Vocabulary ChartPh
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Grades:
K - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
Life Long Ago and Today with Depth & Complexity
Life Long Ago vs Life Today (This unit has been updated 11/13/2018)Enjoy this social studies standards based unit. This will be a great companion for your books on life long ago. I embed Depth and Complexity prompts/icons and Depth of Knowledge in all my products. The included standards are based on the California State Standards but I am sure they are similar to other state standards. This is NOT limited to California teachers but a great social studies primary resource.This unit includes
Grades:
K - 2nd
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Abraham Lincoln Log Cabin STEM
Abraham Lincoln - President's Day STEM - In this STEM challenge your students will learn some facts about Abraham Lincoln and will complete the challenge of building a one room log cabin similar to his childhood home. Students must stick to a budget and use the available supplies. This STEM challenge meets several NGSS standards and encourages critical thinking, budgeting, and engineering skills.
Suggested Plan of Implementation:
Prior Week: Send home the parent letter requesting supplies.
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K - 6th
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Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
STEM Fall Into Thanksgiving Stations
Let's fall into Thanksgiving and Fall fun STEM stations! Your engineers will love the variety this pack has. Not just Fall...not just Thanksgiving...this pack includes 5 STEM activities, station cards, STEM reflections sheets, and STEM materials and activity sheet that can be used in small groups... as stations...or even individually. These packs have been great for our K-5 teachers as they use stations to reward our students with some science fun!The stations include:*Pumpkin Patch/Corn Maze St
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K - 5th
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Mayflower Ship STEM Challenge - Thanksgiving STEM Activity
***SAVE BIG WITH THE THANKSGIVING STEM BUNDLE!***This low prep, Thanksgiving themed STEM/STEAM activity is perfect to engage your elementary engineers in November! With a focus on boat engineering, this activity is always a fun way to celebrate fall.Includes the following components for MAYFLOWER SHIP STEM ACTIVITY:Detailed Lesson Plan with Standards, Supply Checklist, and Suggested Read AloudsDigital Google Slides Notebook for Paperless Recording and Interactive DisplaysKey Visual Vocabulary Ch
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
STEM (STEAM) Thanksgiving Native American Drums
This STEM (STEAM) resource is perfect for November, Thanksgiving, and your Native American units! Students will experience hands-on what it's like to make a Native American Drum, following specific criteria and following a scientific format.
Included are all printables you'll need to execute this STEM challenge. There are brainstorming, planning, and evaluation printables for your students to complete while doing this meaningful experiment.
They'll be discussing the best way to produce sound
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Grades:
K - 2nd
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Timeline Activity
Included are the following:
-All About Me Timeline with writing & photo space
-All About Me Timeline with photo space
-Seasons Timeline with writing & photo space
-Seasons Timeline with photo space
Great activity aligned to Common Core standards and NYC Scope and Sequence for S.S. Please leave feedback.
Grades:
K - 5th
STEM STEAM Challenge: November Edition -- Mayflower Challenge
Time to set sail! In this "Mayflower Challenge", students must design a boat to hold as many Pilgrims as possible. Will it stay afloat with all 102 passengers aboard?
Included in this pack are:
-- Printable student challenge card
-- Teacher materials list
-- Pre-Activity guide
-- Engineering Design Process flow-chart for student record keeping
-- Self-assessment/Reflection page (differentiated for grades K-1 or 2-5)
-- Open-ended writing page for follow-up or related activities (differentiat
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Grades:
K - 5th
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Creative Wheel Enrichment Activity
:: How to Use ::Creative Wheels can be used in ANY subject! You can have students complete a book character study, biography, book study, Social Studies topic, Science topic… the possibilities are endless!RESOURCE INCLUDES:+ Creative Wheel PDF+ Creative Wheel Google Slide+ Creative Wheel Digital or Printout options+ Editable Rubric + Sample pictures from my class projects and a list of ideas on how to use!
Grades:
PreK - 12th
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Also included in: Enrichment Activity Growing Bundle
Create a Culture Student Project | Gifted and Talented
Get your students thinking creatively! This project can be tackled in small teams or individually. Your students will use their imagination and creativity to invent their very own culture. The packet included will walk them through illustrating and writing about the following aspects of their invented culture.
- climate and geography
- language
- education
- architecture
- religion and beliefs
- economy
- clothing
- artifact list
Writing frames and a rubric are included.
This project is perfec
Grades:
PreK - 8th
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Amazing Race Printable Templates
This file is a PowerPoint file with Amazing Race templates to create challenges, detours and roadblocks in any content area. These templates can be used digitally or as printables. Just click inside the editable text boxes to add your content.Template includes: planning pageschallenge folderroute information carddetour cardroadblock cardplayer name tagsPowerPoint slides template
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K - 12th, Staff
Labor Day Emergent Reader
This little reader is the perfect way to explain what Labor Day is to elementary students. The book explains when Labor Day was celebrated, when it became an act by Congress and why is was created.
This would be a good resource to add to your Labor Day social studies or government unit on the holiday.
US History
Labor Day
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Grades:
K - 5th
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STEM: Let's Build A..Castle
Need a quick STEM pack that is theme based and can help you tie in NGSS engineering standards, provide hands on activities and connect to your Building Structures, Balance and Motion Unit or even to tie in Fairy Tales with an engineering design challenge? This new series can do that for you with Let's Build a...Castle!
This pack includes:
-3 STEM connections
-engineering design poster
-lesson plan
-vocabulary cards
-packet sheets
-writing connections
-lord and lady patterns
-carriage background
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Grades:
K - 2nd
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Also included in: Let's Build STEM Bundle
Gifted or Goof Off
Part of Nancy Polette's Fact or Fiction Series
Texas Legacy Award Winner 2005
Use one of the collages in the Gallery of Celebrities with your students as a motivator to guess which famous people you’ll be reading about. Get a glimpse of the early life of well-known people in different professions. What do the experiences of these people tell us about persistence, perseverance, resolve, determination, achievement, accomplishment, victory and success? Enjoy the humor of Steele’s caricatures – writ
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K - 12th
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GOODS AND SERVICES STREETS - 3 Activities - English & Spanish
Goods and Services - Bienes y Servicios - English and Spanish!! My students have so much fun doing these activities. - The students brainstorm what makes our town special, unique and a great place to live. 1 - Large pictures of services and goods buildings. Print them in color and put them in a bag for the students to choose one and decide if that place provides a service or goods, and glue it on "The Class Streets" 2 - After that, use the other set of buildings for a pair activity. One of th
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: GOODS AND SERVICES BUNDLE - ENGLISH AND SPANISH
Thanksgiving STEM Center for Building Bricks: STEM Mats for Blocks like LEGO ®
STEM Mats® are SO easy to set up in your classroom! If you were thinking of trying STEM Fridays or Maker Mondays, or you need something more engaging for your early finishers than worksheets or reading, this is the resource for you. Not only will your students be working creatively to solve problems, they will be reading, writing, and using math skills. What's Included■ Instructions and sample images■ Letter you can send home to parents, caregivers, and friends to ask for donations■ 6 Thanksgivi
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Grades:
K - 4th
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
Also included in: STEM Activities and Makerspace Tasks for the Whole Year
Landforms, Bodies of Water, Natural Resources and How People Use Them
EXPLORING PLACES!! This PowerPoint presentation shows 42 slides with very descriptive pictures of Landforms: canyon, volcano, mountains, cave, desert, plateau, valley, plain, hill, and island. Bodies of Water: River, Lake, pond, ocean, coast, waterfall, and glacierNatural Resources: Oil, water, trees, mines, wind, and soil. Uses of natural resources: to build highways, buildings, airports, stadiums, bridges, amusement parks, swimming pools, gardens, etc.At the end of the presentation, the pict
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Grades:
K - 4th
Also included in: BODIES OF WATER, LANDFORMS, AND, NATURAL RESOURCES BUNDLE
Logic Puzzles Dinosaurs Early Elementary
Build essential critical thinking and deductive reasoning skills with this dinosaur themed logic pack, which includes:
6 Directional Mapping Puzzles
Following controlled vocabulary prompts, students move up, down, left, and right through a 3x3 or 4x4 grid to discover where they’ll land on the grid.
5 Visual Rotation Puzzles
Focusing on mental flexibility and being able to mentally rotate objects, students are challenged to discover which one of three dinosaur pictures is like the prompt.
8 Ve
Grades:
K - 3rd
Timeline Past Present Future & Spanish Linea de Tiempo Presente Pasado Futuro
This is one of my favorite projects of the year and perfect for OPEN HOUSE!It is so exciting for the students & families! This project comes in English and Spanish as well as the instructions for parents!Ways to incorporate it:-Timeline on themselves-Timeline of a living person (famous or ordinary)-Introduction to conjugating verbs in Spanish-Introduction on how to speak in past, present, and futureOlder Students:-G.A.T.E Icon- Multiple Perspective- A timeline of a character or plot-Characte
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PreK - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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STEAM Bins Activities / STEM Bin Activities (Fall)
STEAM BIN / STEM BIN FALL EDITION ! STEAM Bins/STEM Bins Activities is a great resource to get students collaborating with one another, exploring ways to build structures, manipulating resources, and team building. It also allows them to express their creativity in different ways through Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics. STEM bin Activities allow students to think critically and solve problems. Practicing these skills are essential for children throughout their life. STEAM
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PreK - 4th
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Indigenous Peoples Research Menu for Gifted, Enrichment and Differentiation
Enhance your social studies and language arts curriculum with critical and creative thinking! Your students' higher-order thinking skills will bloom as they research various Indigenous Peoples to complete their choice of 8 motivating research activities. Social Studies and Language Arts integrated, including research websites and categories. Perfect for Thanksgiving or anytime! This 17 page menu packet includes 3 levels of difficulty (coded), diverse multiple intelligences/learning styles, and 5
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K - 8th
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Also included in: Holiday Menu Bundle for Critical & Creative Thinking!
Lunar Chinese New Year 2024 Comprehensive Activities |Year of the Dragon Part1&2
Hand Craft, Reading Skills, Brain Practice, Math.. ALL IN our Lunar Chinese New Year 2024 - Year of the DRAGON Comprehensive No-Prep Activities! The New Lunar Year celebration for students from Kindergarten to elementary, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th grades! This is full package of PART 1+2In this resource, your students can practice multiple skills: creative writing, color illustrating, memorial practice, hand-crafting,.. all about the year of the Dragon! Activities are designed like a small adventu
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Grades:
K - 5th
November STEM STEAM Challenge: Thanksgiving Edition
The horn of plenty is an iconic Thanksgiving symbol. In this "Cornucopia Challenge", students must design a basket that can hold plenty of fruit.
Included in this pack are:
-- Printable student challenge card
-- Teacher materials list
-- Pre-Activity guide
-- Engineering Design Process flow-chart for student record keeping
-- Self-assessment/Reflection page (differentiated for grades K-1 or 2-5)
-- Open-ended writing page for follow-up or related activities (differentiated for grades K-1 or 2
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Grades:
K - 5th
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