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Social studies games for special education
Rhyming Activity - CVC Rhyming Words Picture Clip Cards for Rhyming Practice
Are you looking for a resource to teach rhyming words or an activity that provides fun rhyming practice? This is a hands-on rhyming, CVC word family, and fine motor activity will help your kids develop phonological awareness as they learn to recognize rhyming words. You can use the CVC rhyming picture clip cards for rhyming assessment and to practice segmenting onset and rime and blending onset and rime with easily decodable words. The rhyming words activity is perfect for preschool, pre-k, kin
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PreK - K
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Let's Talk About... {Visual Conversation Starters for Special Education}
Empower students with autism in developing essential conversation skills with our resource tailored for special education teachers and parents. Addressing challenges in generating novel questions, staying on topic, and asking reciprocal questions, this resource offers 48 task cards covering a diverse range of specific topics. Ideal for daily prompts, small group sessions, or peer interactions, these cards provide targeted questions for structured breaks and downtime. Each card features 5 related
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PreK - 4th
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Heart Word Cards: The Science of Reading Fry & HFW Sight Words {RTI, Sp Ed, SOR}
These No Prep Heart Word Cards and Games are fully aligned with the Science of Reading! 400 words, including the 1st and 2nd Hundred Fry Words, are included. Please take a look at the preview to see the full list of words that are included as well as the highly supportive key for long vowels, short vowels, r-controlled vowels and more!On each poster and card, the featured word is presented in a clear primary font. Parts of the word that early readers are likely to need support decoding are pres
Executive Functioning Skills Games & Play Activities - Self-Regulation Breaks
Use these Executive Functioning Games and Play Activities to practice executive functioning skills in a fun and interactive way! The activities can be introduced as executive functioning instruction or self-regulation brain breaks. Skills include planning, time management, working memory, self control, flexibility, organization, task initiation, metacognition, attention, and perseverance. Over 30 unique activities for small groups or full classes are included. They include role play, movement, a
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K - 5th
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Community Helpers Sorting Mats (w/Real Photos)
These Community Helpers Sorting Mats w/ Real Photos include 10 unique sorting mats that focus on identifying community helpers and objects associated with them.
At an independent workstation, center or language group, students complete the following sorting mats by identifying the community helper and the things associated with him or her. For example the police officer mat includes handcuffs, a police car, a flashlight, a police hat, a police vest, etc.
Community Helpers Included in this
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PreK - 2nd
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32 COUNSELING GAMES: 950 Questions to Turn Any Game Into a SEL Counseling Game
Save TONS of money with these low-prep 32 Counseling Games covering relevant social emotional learning topics. Plus, with over 950 color & number coded SEL questions and prompts, you can use any store bought game you already have and easily transform it into a SEL game!Draw a blue card, token, stick, or block? Respond to prompt in the blue category! Land on a green? Answer a green coded question! Roll the dice and get a 3? Respond to a #3 question!❤️ CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW TO SEE MORE! ❤️ W
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3rd - 9th
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Auditory Processing and Memory Activities - Following Directions, Recall, & More
Searching for auditory processing and listening activities that are both effective and engaging? This comprehensive auditory memory activities packet is just what you need to end your search! Offering a versatile and multifaceted approach to enhancing auditory processing and memory skills. Perfect for strengthening auditory processing!Tailored for a wide range of learners, from PreK to high school, this packet is designed to strengthen auditory processing skills. It can be seamlessly integrated
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K - 3rd
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Social Problem Solving Board Game for Social Emotional Learning Skills
Practice social skills and social problem solving with a board game! The game includes over 80 scenario cards focused on real life social situations at school, at home, with friends, and during activities. After reading the cards, kids will act the out the situation, discuss consequences, give three options, identify what they would do, and more. This game is great for students with social difficulties and those who are rigid and might get "stuck" in their way of thinking. Use this game to allow
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Social Emotional Learning Games and Activities Bundle
Ancient Egypt Hieroglyphics Escape Room Activity | Engaging Crack the Code Game
In this Ancient Egypt Escape Room activity, students are introduced to ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and are placed in the shoes of investigators as they seek to crack a mysterious code left behind by the ancient Egyptians. Student investigative teams have one class period to solve four clues, each written in hieroglyphics, then complete the final formula to crack the code. Students only have a set number of attempts to open the lock before the ancient lock deteriorates and remains jammed for
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5th - 9th
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B and D Reversal Worksheets Confusion Activities Orton Gillingham Dyslexia
If your students struggle with B and D reversals and B and D P Qconfusion these activities will help. As a certified dyslexia therapist (CALT) I made these differentiated activities to help struggling and beginning readers at different levels. These activities are based on the concepts in the teaching dyslexia text: Multisensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills. It has over 80 pages of fun and engaging activities. These activities and centers help b, d, p and q confusion activities will help
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K - 1st
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End of the Year Break Activities - Digital Resource Mystery Game - Team Building
Are you ready to watch reading comprehension skills skyrocket before the end of the year break?! Great for team building! Students will work together to solve the mystery AND practice a variety of academic skills including; inferencing, critical thinking, problem solving, reading comprehension, and much more! The material is so fun and engaging, students won't even know they are actually learning! This activity can be used anytime of year and is a fantastic way to get students excited about l
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3rd - 6th
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Who Am I? - Community Helpers Powerpoint Game #1
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
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PreK - 2nd
Also included in: Kindergarten Games Bundle
Latitude and Longitude Battleship Game - Map Skills Geography Activities
Help your students practice their latitude and longitude skills in a fun and engaging way using this no-prep latitude and longitude battleship game! The directions are included right on the template, so this is a no prep activity that comes ready to play. I've also provided PowerPoint directions so you can show students how to play as a class. Students will become well-practiced with using a grid and making sure they always give latitude coordinates first. I've used this every year and my studen
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Latitude and Longitude Practice Puzzle Review Activities Bundle
Articulation Activity Speech Therapy Picture Searches Worksheets or Digital
This is a SIMPLE and FUN activity to target articulation in speech therapy! The PDF contains SOUND-SPECIFIC picture searches that will CHALLENGE your students. They'll love this unique activity for something NEW and DIFFERENT to work on articulation in speech therapy.This game-like activity MOTIVATES students as they scan the page to find all of each item. You won't even have to ask them to practice the words, since reporting their answers will NATURALLY elicit the target words!With a total of 1
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K - 6th
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Speech Therapy Categories Game Articulation Activity Older Students Language
Looking for an easy, NO PREP way to target ANY SPEECH SOUND in words, phrases, sentences, or conversation? Or maybe you need an activity to help your articulation students generalize? This game does all of that, plus targets LANGUAGE too! And the activity is fun for a range of ages– upper elementary, middle school AND high school students! Since 4 different lists are included (each with 12 categories), this game can be used across multiple sessions. There are two copies of the list on each page,
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
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Errorless Learning File Folder Games and Activities BUNDLE for Special Education
This bundle of errorless file folder games is perfect for getting your students started with independent work stations in your special education classroom. Practice matching, beginning sounds, letters, colors, shapes and 1:1 correspondence. The beauty of errorless learning is there is no wrong answer! Students learn how to complete left to right tasks and you can guarantee success without staff assistance.Some of the targeted skills include:Left to right task routineTask independenceOne to one
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K - 3rd
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Intro to Growth Mindset- An Interactive PowerPoint on Persistence and Mistakes
Do you have students who have a difficult time doing anything that is a little challenging for them? Do they quit right away? Do they think they are "dumb" if they make mistakes? Do they think if something is challenging, it means they aren't smart?This interactive PowerPoint is specifically for these kids. It's designed to get kids to go from a fixed mindset (I'm just not good at math/reading) to a growth mindset (I can become better at math/reading.) Works great on Smartboards too! Mac-friendl
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K - 4th
Also included in: Growth Mindset Complete Bundle | Interactive PowerPoints
The Great Depression: A Saving and Spending Game
Students work together in small groups to make decisions about how to save or spend their money during the Great Depression. They will see what it is like to have a well-paying job and then lose most of their money in the stock market crash of 1929. They will have to find a new job, a place to live (hobo camp or boxcar), and figure out how to provide for their family with very little.Students will have to subtract their bills from their total amount of money using a spending ledger (provided).
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4th - 8th
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Alphabet Letter Fluency & Fitness® Brain Breaks
Fluency and Fitness® are some of the top selling brain breaks and movement breaks on TPT! This activity helps students get the wiggles out AND learn their alphabet letters! Students BEG to do this! Teachers love it because they don't lose any instructional time, yet their kids can get up and move! This bundle includes 6 Powerpoint slideshows to help your students learn their uppercase and lowercase letters quickly. Each slideshow has a variety of exercises for students to do. Click on the previ
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PreK - K
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Also included in: Fluency & Fitness® Brain Breaks MEGA BUNDLE (K-2)
Escape Room Bundle for Social Emotional Learning | SEL Activities
This bundle includes 7 escape room activities with interactive challenges related to coping strategies, executive functioning skills, growth mindset, managing emotions, and conflict resolution. Students work together in small groups to solve a variety of puzzles and challenges in order to discover the secret phrase to unlock the door and win the challenge in a specified amount of time. The first version is for small group scavenger hunts around the room while the second version allows you to hav
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4th - 8th
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Family Feud Game Powerpoint
This is the most realistic Family Feud game ever! Fun activities for students in classroom!Family Feud Game PowerPoint includes scoreboard for 2 teams. You can create your own questions to review any subject. Customizable Logo.This game contains everything you need for a real Family Feud game: sound effects, music, updated graphics, animation and a team scoreboard.Easy to customize for any topic you are teaching in class.It includes a PDF with instructions on how to setup, play and customize. We
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Not Grade Specific
Histagories Social Studies End of Year Activity for US and World History
In this history review and conversation game, students are engaged with 8 short lists of information where they work with partners (or individually) to try to come up with answers based on the letter for the round. Included is a letter-choosing paper (students flip a coin and see where it lands!) plus 8 different lists geared toward History, Geography, Geology, and Social Studies themes! A condensed worksheet is also included to save space.Enjoy this fun way to spend the first few (or last few
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5th - 8th
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Branches of Government ESCAPE ROOM! Legislative, Executive, Judicial Branch
The Branches of Government Escape Room will take students on a secret mission around the classroom! This escape room has students decode interesting facts about the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Branches of government. This Escape Room has students walking around the classroom breaking codes. The codes include ciphers, Morse code, cryptograms and a final 4 digit code based on the decoders/clues.What’s Included?✏️ 4 Reading Passages✏️ 4 Puzzle Phrases to Decode✏️ 4 Decoders✏️ 4 Differentiat
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4th - 8th
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Social Skills Game: Friendship Bingo
Many kids are so desperate to have friends that they are willing to ignore rude behavior.
Over time, they start to accept controlling and hostile behavior as a normal part of their relationships with other people.
Help your students develop better friendships by teaching them the qualities of a true friend while playing a fun game!
Qualities of a Friend Bingo Game is a great way to build a positive classroom/school climate, prevent bullying, and reduce relational aggression.
This game come
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4th - 12th
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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.
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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.
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