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Kindergarten Back to School social studies resources for GATE
STEM Bins® Teambuilders for Back to School and End of the Year - STEM Activities
★ GRAB MY NEW STEM BINS TEAMBUILDERS GROWING BUNDLE!★ STEM Bins® Teambuilders are a wonderful way to build your classroom community and allow students to practice and reflect on essential character skills. They are ideal for use at the beginning of the school year as you are introducing STEM Bins to your class, and are also perfect for collaborative STEM activities at the end of the school year. The following STEM Bins® Teambuilders are designed to accompany my STEM Bins® ,found at the following
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PreK - 5th
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Partner Pairing Cards and Grouping Cards Pick a Partner
Pick a partner or do small group pairing with these fun cards!With a variety of fun ways to pair or group students, students each choose (or receive) one card and then seek out their pair or group. Forming groups for projects or STEM challenges can elicit groans from students, but by making it fun and engaging for students, this will become your go-to way for no-argue partnerships.Pick a Partner Cards may be printed at full size or at 2 pages per sheet to save paper.✅ What You'll Get ✅✅ Partneri
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K - 12th
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Also included in: STEM Teacher ❤️ Favorites ❤️ Bundle Best Sellers in One Place
Back to School STEM Challenges & Activities (September) - Back to School BUNDLE
These Back to School themed STEM/STEAM activities are perfect to engage your elementary engineers at the beginning of the school year! Three STEM challenges and one Bonus Brainbuilder are provided and can be completed as stations or in isolation.Includes the following LOW PREP STEM Challenges:Off to SchoolPom Pom PopperShared SuppliesBonus Brainbuilder: Maker MindsetAlso includes challenges from the previous version:Rockin' School BusPom Pom SlingshotApple RaftBonus Brainbuilder: Pencil TowerInc
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K - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
...
All About Me - D&C Icons Pennant Banner! {GATE Back to School!}
Color your own “All About Me” Depth and Complexity Pennants! This is a fun and creative way to apply Depth and Complexity Icons and a student-centered approach to decorating your classroom for Back to School Night, Open House, or all year long!
A unique approach to your Student of the Week projects! Students enjoy completing this creative and fun project as a wonderful “Get to know you” activity in the beginning of the year (or any time of the year)! Perfect for decorating your GATE classro
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Grades:
K - 6th
All About Posters with D&C Icons - {Me, Family, Class, and Book}
Complete your own “All About Me,” “All About Our Classroom,” “All About My Family,” and “All About This Book,” Depth and Complexity Posters! This is a fun and creative way to teach and apply Depth and Complexity Icons as students share about themselves, their classrooms, their families, and any of the non-fiction books they’ve read. An innovative and Common Core friendly approach to having students complete posters for Student of the Week, Beginning of the Year, Student Inventory, and Book Repo
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K - 5th
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Pom Pom Popper STEM Challenge - Back to School STEM Activity
***SAVE BIG WITH THE BACK TO SCHOOL STEM BUNDLE!***This low prep, Back to School themed STEM/STEAM activity is perfect to engage your elementary engineers in August and September! With a focus on force and motion, this activity is always a fun way to begin the school year.Includes the following components for POM POM POPPER STEM ACTIVITY:Detailed Lesson Plan with Standards, Supply Checklist, and Suggested Read AloudsDigital Google Slides Notebook for Paperless Recording and Interactive DisplaysK
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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
...
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
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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
Back to School STEM Challenges
Back to School Time...Add some fun hands-on STEM to your first days of school with these three engaging STEM activities! These activities include differentiated record sheets to accommodate K-5th grade classrooms...fun and easy enough, yet challenging enough for all elementary classrooms! These stations can provide you with feedback and assessment opportunities as you observe students problem solving, collaborating, and record keeping at the beginning of the year. This pack includes the followi
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K - 5th
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Off to School (School Bus) STEM Challenge - Back to School STEM Activity
***SAVE BIG WITH THE BACK TO SCHOOL STEM BUNDLE!***This low prep, Back to School themed STEM/STEAM activity is perfect to engage your elementary engineers in August and September! With a focus on force and motion and magnets, this activity is always a fun way to begin the school year.Includes the following components for OFF TO SCHOOL (SCHOOL BUS) STEM ACTIVITY:Detailed Lesson Plan with Standards, Supply Checklist, and Suggested Read AloudsDigital Google Slides Notebook for Paperless Recording a
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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-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
...
The Dot By Peter Reynolds Activities - Dot Day STEM and STEAM
Explore this growth mindset read-aloud with STEAM activities for International Dot Day! Warm-up the brain with dot and pixel art, and then dive into one (or all four) STEM challenges. These activities pair with the read aloud The Dot. Try these challenges and see where they take you!✅ What You'll Get ✅2 warm-up activities to get the creativity flowing4 STEM ActivitiesArt desk STEM activityEasel STEM activityPicture frame STEM activityPainting tool STEM activityRecording OptionsGraphic organizer
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: STEM Bundle of Activities and Challenges Read Aloud Books and Novels
Shared Supplies (Supply Caddy) STEM Challenge - Back to School STEM Activity
***SAVE BIG WITH THE BACK TO SCHOOL STEM BUNDLE!***This low prep, Back to School themed STEM/STEAM activity is perfect to engage your elementary engineers in August and September! With a focus on 3D solids, this activity is always a fun way to begin the school year.Includes the following components for SHARED SUPPLIES (SUPPLY CADDY) STEM ACTIVITY:Detailed Lesson Plan with Standards, Supply Checklist, and Suggested Read AloudsDigital Google Slides Notebook for Paperless Recording and Interactive
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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
...
Back to School STEM Activities Team Builders and Icebreakers for K-1
Team building activities and icebreakers are perfect for the first week of school OR back to school night with families. Build your classroom community with hands-on building and brain-stretching fun!These activities are designed for Kindergarten and 1st grade students. As such, there are very simple recording options and I strongly recommend that students work in pairs (as opposed to larger groups) for the team building activities. The STEM challenges can be done independently or in pairs. Ple
Grades:
K - 1st
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, K-PS2-2
, K-PS2-1
Also included in: Back to School STEM Activities and Team Builders for K-5 BUNDLE
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
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!
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PreK - 12th
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Also included in: Enrichment Activity Growing Bundle
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
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
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PreK - 8th
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What Can You Do With Ten Dots? A Book To Inspire Creativity
Get your students creative juices flowing as you start the school year. Read the book Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews. Give students 55 colored dots, this booktivity, and let your students be inspired to create their own book. This is a perfect activity to use the first week of school because students can work independently and let you have some time to get some much needed work done!
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K - 6th
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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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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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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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Robot Mazes for use with Ozobots - Back to School STEM
Print and go mazes for coding your favorite little robot! Ozobot™ robots are the perfect robot to get started with coding because all you need are paper and markers. These open-ended mazes allow for creativity in coding. This set of mazes has a school theme that is perfect for back to school STEM!What's Included5 coding mazes 2 of the mazes have 2 options (levels) and require students to count objects they code past3 of the mazes are simple start to end mazesCoding key page with color codes for
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K - 5th
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Questions to help parents talk about their child's school day
As a teacher, I know the importance of talking to my child about their day, but I find that sometimes I even resort to the dreaded…"how was your day?" and am often met with a one or two word answer. Or I'm asking the same questions over and over again. Help your parents engage in a thoughtful conversation with their child by providing them with this list of open-ended questions to start the conversation flowing.
This would be perfect to send home at the beginning of the year or at Back to Sch
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Grades:
K - 5th
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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
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