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Kindergarten social studies resources for GATE under $5
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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Grades:
K - 6th
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Also included in:Â STEM Activities 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!
Grades:
PreK - 12th
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Also included in:Â 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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Grades:
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
Grades:
PreK - 8th
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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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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:Â Let's Build STEM Bundle
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:Â GOODS AND SERVICES BUNDLE - ENGLISH AND SPANISH
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:Â 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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Indigenous Peoples Legend Wheel Activity for Gifted and Enrichment
NOTE BEFORE BUYING!! This product is one of 8 activities in my Indigenous Peoples Research Menu. Please check out full menu before purchase! Increase critical and creative thinking in your social studies and language arts curriculum! Your students' higher-order thinking skills will blossom as they create and illustrate an Indigenous Peoples Legend Wheel (data disk) based on a legend they've read. 9 page packet includes teacher tips, legend websites, 2 legend wheel forms (top and bottom) with s
Grades:
K - 8th
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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
Grades:
K - 8th
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Also included in:Â Holiday Menu Bundle for Critical & Creative Thinking!
Good Citizen Unit
This unit includes:
5 lesson plans
1 final project
1 rubric
Student workbook:
A Good Citizen...
Follows Rules
Respects Authority
Is Fair
Helps Solve Problems
Honors the USA
Is Responsible
Gate icons are also presented in the unit and can be introduced or reinforced throughout unit. These icons include:
Big Idea
Details
Multiple Prespectives
Change Over Time
Grades:
K - 2nd
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A-Z Vocabulary Book: Ancient Egypt
Give your elementary students an opportunity to understand terms and phrases related to Ancient Egypt (Common Core Anchor Standard RIT.4 & 9, and social studies standards related to culture, geography & civilizations) --whether you teach them or they embark on a digital or media exploration on their own, they will be researching familiar and unfamiliar terms related to an important world civilization. This A-Z book is a great contextualized way to teach the Common Core reading and langu
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Grades:
K - 8th
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Indigenous Peoples Trading Cards: Research Activity for Gifted and Enrichment
NOTE BEFORE BUYING: This product is one of 8 activities in my Indigenous Peoples Research Menu. Please check out full menu before purchase! Increase critical and creative thinking in your social studies and language arts curriculum! Your students' higher-order thinking skills will blossom as they research their choice of various Indigenous Tribes to create a trading card or set of cards. 9 page packet includes research websites, categories, planning page and detailed trading card form. Differe
Grades:
K - 8th
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COMMUNITY HELPERS STEM CHALLENGE:: BUNNYTOWN::
Get your little ones excited about becoming problem solvers with this engaging STEM activity. Students will use their problem solving skills to build a new community for bunnies. They will practice:collaborationproblem solvingengineering skillspersuasive languageThis is a perfect first day or first week activity or an activity to use to finish out the school year!
Grades:
PreK - 3rd
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My Community Report - Social Studies, Oral Report, & Expository Writing
My Community Report is a great way to get students to identify and tell about various important parts of their local communities. Students take a photo (or draw a picture) and write about:
1.) Their neighborhood
2.) A local business in their community
3.) A government entity (City Hall, fire station, etc.)
4.) Some place uniquely important to the student (could be their church, where they take dance classes, etc.)
This is an ideal home project or after school project that gives students the o
Grades:
K - 3rd
Landforms, Bodies of Water, Natural Resources and How People Use Them - Spanish!
EXPLORING PLACES!! In Spanish!!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 presentati
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Grades:
K - 4th
Also included in:Â BODIES OF WATER, LANDFORMS, NATURAL RESOURCES BUNDLE IN SPANISH
Bulletin Board Kit:Martin Luther King Jr. Day Quote Posters, border,MLK banner
Need Martin Luther Kind Jr. bulletin board ideas? These MLK Jr. classroom posters are perfect for the season! They will be a great addition to your classroom display! These posters can be displayed on your bulletin board or around your classroom on their own. It is also perfect for an at home distance learning backdrop, or homeschooling decor.*Guaranteed to bring some "I have a dream vibes" in your classroom and help your students feel welcomed and excited about the holiday! This set of MLK Jr.
Grades:
PreK - 5th
Social Emotional Check-Ins for Jamboard/Google Slides
In this file: A. Link to Google Jamboard SlidesB. Templates added to Google Slides (If you prefer Google Slides)C. (Save/download images to use in Padlet, if student behavior prevents Jamboard) 1. Class Check-In - Lights2. Class Check-In - Winter3. Class Check-In - Flowers4. Class Check-In (4 Square) Winter5. Class Check-In (4 Square) Heart6. Being Present (4 Square) River Rocks, Version 17. Being Present (4 Square) River Rocks, Version 28. (4 Square) River Rocks, Blank9. Moving from Anger to Ca
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Grades:
PreK - 12th
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Ethical Thinking Challenge Set 1 Gifted and Talented K-6
Ethical Thinking Challenge Set 1 Gifted and Talented K-6Learning to think in ethical/moral ways is important. For gifted and talented students these types of questions can give them the opportunity to think deeply and explore all the possibilities. Gifted kids enjoy this type of thinking and it is great to show them that different opinions are not just OK they are needed, and that answers can be black and white or some shade of grey in between. These tasks were designed for upper primary but I h
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Grades:
K - 8th
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Reinventing a Robot
This document is a template that supports technology in innovative technology advancements in our world. Students have the opportunity to create a robot that assists with a task, by making that task easier. Students are then asked to describe how their reinvention assists with making life easier. Great for social studies technology lessons, as well as science and robotics support.
Grades:
K - 4th
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George Washington Interactive Journal Activities (English only)
Learn about George Washington using these interactive journal activities that are simple enough for Kinder to complete and glue into their daily journals. Keep your students engaged and ready to learn! Each activity inclues information/details about his life. Included are 4 different activities to keep the learners engaged. You can use the examples provided, or have the students draw their own. Its up to you!
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
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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.
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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.
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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.
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