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4th grade social studies lessons for special education
Self-Control Lessons for SEL, Self-Regulation, and Executive Functioning Skills
Use these lessons to get kids' self-control skills in shape! Activities focus on understanding self-control, impulse control, stopping and thinking to make a decision, waiting our turn, following rules and directions, staying motivated, doing our best work, managing emotions, using coping strategies, and practicing self-control to strengthen skills over time. Other skills that impact self-control are also addressed, including planning, time management, and perseverance.Digital VersionUpdated to
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4th - 8th
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5 Regions of the United States LINKtivity® (Geography, Climate, Landforms, MORE)
Take your students on an exciting virtual road trip through the five regions of the United States with our digital LINKtivity® Interactive Learning guide! Our interactive guide offers a fun and engaging way for students to explore each region's climate, landforms, bodies of water, and popular tourist destinations.Designed for upper elementary classrooms, our easy-to-navigate digital guide requires minimal teacher prep and is entirely student-controlled, allowing for self-paced learning. With a v
Mindfulness Activities and SEL Lessons for Self-Regulation
Help your students use mindfulness practices to strengthen self-regulation and focus skills! These mindfulness lessons and activities teach important social emotional skills that include activities like mindful breathing, listening to music, calm coloring, making crafts, and much more. Unlock the calm in your classroom with these engaging lessons!What is Mindfulness?Mindfulness is a self-regulation strategy. It means being self-aware in the moment. When we build skills for mindfulness, we are al
Grades:
3rd - 7th
Christmas Around the World Scrapbook
A TpT TOP SELLER!!!! Take your students on a magical trip aboard Christmas Airlines to learn about Christmas in other countries! This interactive Christmas Around the World Scrapbook is a creative way to track student learning, and is a wonderful keepsake! This 63 page packet comes with a student scrapbook, Christmas Airlines plane boarding passes, passports and passport stamps for the journey, a teacher's guide with suggestions for books to read on your trip, food ideas, and fun crafts for eac
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K - 5th
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Teaching R Articulation - No Prep R Speech Therapy - Vocalic R Sound
R sound articulation can make speech therapy feel overwhelming. Where do you start? What do you target next? How do you actually get your student to say the R sound!? Teaching R helps speech therapists navigate those questions using a systematic approach. It is a step-by-step, easy-to-follow, program to target the R sound. It targets vocalic R, initial R, and R blends (even with a special section for RL blends). Teaching R now includes teaching visuals for both bunched and retroflex R, informati
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2nd - 5th
Also included in: R Sound Printable Bundle - R Articulation Activities
Managing Emotions Wheel - SEL Self-Regulation Craft & Coping Skills Lesson
Are you looking for an engaging activity to help students learn to manage their emotions? Use this lesson and hands-on activity to help kids learn strategies for managing their feelings and developing self-regulation skills. This is something that all learners need! Kids and young adults will identify emotions and coping strategies to help them manage those emotions. Then, they will put together a wheel craft that helps them identify their emotions and strategies on the spot. This craft includes
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1st - 5th
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Social Skills Activities Small Group Counseling Curriculum
This social skills group curriculum was created for upper elementary students. It focuses on positive communication and understanding others. These social skills activities can be used with students on the autism spectrum, students with ADHD, gifted students, or students with no specific difference at all who just struggle with social interactions. This resource also serves as a wonderful tier 2 intervention within MTSS-B. Each session includes an engaging comic book or graphic novel style page
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3rd - 6th
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Coping Strategies Fortune Teller: SEL Skills Craft and Activity
Use this fortune teller craft to teach and practice coping strategies, which is a critical social emotional skill. Kids and young adults will identify their top coping strategies and write them on the fortune teller to practice and refer to, as needed.This craft includes a list of 100 unique coping strategies for kids and young adults to choose from. A space is included for kids and young adults to write in their own individualized strategies. Students can create their own coping strategies craf
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3rd - 6th
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Feelings Posters, Feelings Chart, SEL Worksheets | Identifying Emotions Decor
Detailed feelings posters, charts, and worksheets that help students learn to identify feelings and emotions. This SEL resource guides students to recognize, name, and understand their feelings and the feelings they see in others. Emotions included: Alert, Angry, Annoyed, Bored, Brave, Calm, Confused, Curious, Disappointed, Disgusted, Distracted, Embarrassed, Excited, Focused, Frustrated, Furious, Happy, Jealous, Lonely, Nervous, Proud, Sad, Scared, Shocked, Shy, Sick, Silly, Surprised, Tired.Wh
Grades:
1st - 4th
U.S. Government Unit includes 3 Branches of Government
U.S. Government - This comprehensive GOVERNMENT UNIT includes all the information needed to teach government in your classroom. No textbook is needed! It includes informational text in chronological order along with activities, projects, and assessments. Check out the preview!It is now available in GOOGLE, POWERPOINT AND PDF.DISTANCE LEARNING:GOVERNMENT UNIT TEACHER PDF: Plans, study guides, printables, answer keys and links for GOOGLE.GOVERNMENT UNIT TEXT AND ACTIVITIES: Google Slides AND Powe
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3rd - 6th
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Build a Sentence Worksheets for Sentence Formulation No Prep
Need build-a-sentence worksheets that help your students work on sentence formulation and parts of speech? These Build a Sentence Worksheets are designed for reviewing formulating sentences with speech therapy students. These activities cover various language skills, including early syntax, grammar, and question formulation. This build-a-sentence no-prep grammar worksheet activity set will help increase your student's confidence in writing grammatically correct sentences.These worksheets and tas
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Low Prep Build-A-Sentence Grammar Worksheets for Language Therapy BUNDLE
Calm Down Tools: Social Stories & Visual Supports for Self-Regulation & Behavior
If you have ever worked with students who have difficulty with self-regulation, you probably wish you could just tell them to calm down. This kit is designed to allow you to do that by teaching them the skills of why being calm is important AND HOW to achieve it. These 4 social narratives and visual supports are designed specifically to support your behavior management strategies and to teach students to manage their own behavior. Specifically, the tools will teach using a calm down routine t
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K - 10th
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Morning Work Morning Meeting Calendar Interactive Binder for Special Education
This 15 page “Morning Group Calendar Binder” for Autism and Special education is a great interactive book for increased participation and engagement during morning meeting, morning group, calendar time, or circle time. Each student has their own binder and follows along with the teacher to choose the correct picture icon for a variety of calendar and life skills activities listed below.Included in this binder:-cover page-Rules-Name writing page (2 versions)-Greetings (choose a friend)-Today is,
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PreK - 8th
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Ancient Civilizations Lessons, Activities, and Projects - Ancient History
This Ancient Civilizations Bundle includes 6 resources for teaching Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient China, Ancient India, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Each resource includes learning activities to help students learn about each civilization’s geography, religion, achievements, politics, economy, and society. Designed to be engaging and interactive, these resources will make learning fun and exciting! Here’s a quick overview of each of the Ancient Civilization Resources: Ancient Mesopotam
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4th - 7th
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Low Prep R and Vocalic R Articulation Carryover Activities for Speech Therapy
Are you exhausted from spending hours prepping engaging articulation carryover activities for your speech therapy sessions? Don't struggle with new R and vocalic R articulation carryover activities because this set includes a variety of low-prep R sound activities for reading and conversation that are mixed speech and language group friendly!These R and Vocalic R Articulation Carryover Activities are the perfect set of no-prep resources that will save you time and energy while also providing you
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3rd - 8th
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Math Leveled Daily Curriculum {BUNDLE}
Unlock the full potential of your multi-level classroom with all 3 levels of the Math Leveled Daily Curriculum in this money saving bundle!Each year-long math level focuses on teaching math skills and concepts. The Leveled Daily Curriculum is designed for special education students and autistic learners as it is visual-based and features a step-by-step progression of skills.This curriculum includes embedded assessments allowing for data-based decision making and accurate progress monitoring. Sim
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PreK - 6th
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3 Branches of Government 3D Project Cube *History Craftivity*
Bring history to life by creating a 3D Project Cube for 3 Branches of Government. The students will be excited to get out of the text book, or plain old lecturing. Excite your students with this fun 3D Project Cube. When can you use it?Review Time: Use the cube as a review activity to reinforce key concepts before an assessment or as a quick refresher.Small Groups: Assign small groups of students to work collaboratively on the cube, encouraging teamwork and discussion.Exemplary Task: Showcase ex
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4th - 12th
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WH Questions Curriculum Bundle with Short Stories for Speech Therapy
FINALLY! A comprehensive WH Questions Curriculum, specifically designed for Speech-Language Pathologists who are targeting WH questions in their intervention and therapy sessions. This curriculum provides explicit instructions on how to teach the meaning behind the question and systematically increases the difficulty level as students learn to apply their newfound understanding.To answer questions effectively, it is essential to understand them.Many students struggle with this skill. The problem
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K - 5th
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Colonial America | 13 Colonies | Colony Unit | Colonization | Print | Google
Colonial America - Thirteen Colonies Unit - This comprehensive Colonial America unit includes all the information needed to teach the colonization of North America in your classroom. No textbook is needed! It includes well-crafted informational text and activities in chronological order. This Colonial America unit is perfect for print or distance learning. This 13 Colonies unit is now available in Google Slides, PowerPoint, and PDF form. DISTANCE LEARNING:COLONIAL UNIT TEACHER PDF: Plans, study
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3rd - 5th
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Coping Strategies Task Boxes for Hands-On Social Emotional Learning Activities
Use these coping strategies task boxes to practice social emotional learning skills in a hands-on and interactive way! Skills targeted include matching, identifying, and choosing coping skills. A total of 12 task boxes are included, each with 12 cards. These would be an ideal way for educators to target social skills and emotions to students who need strategies for managing their emotions.Coping strategies highlighted in these task boxes include: taking deep breaths, coloring, using positive sel
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1st - 5th
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4th / 5th Grade Social Studies: Full-Year Curriculum BUNDLE. No-Prep!
The Social Studies, Year-Long Bundle provides a complete curriculum for upper-elementary classrooms with a focus on literacy development, reading comprehension, and active learning. 21st Century skills are emphasized with annotation and reading skills development, interactive hands-on activities, research, and more. Student workbooks include informational reading passages, meaning no textbook is needed! In addition, student workbooks and PowerPoints are Google compatible, which allows for digit
Grades:
4th - 5th
Ancient Rome Activities Project STEM Challenges Worksheets Roman Empire Republic
Ancient Rome STEM & STEAM ChallengesCross-curricular challenges for students who are studying Ancient Civilizations and Ancient Rome! This resource has science, technology, engineering, and measurement activities to do with your upper elementary kids that will really enhance their learning! There are 2 Rome STEM Challenges in this pack. Each STEM Challenge has detailed directions, photo examples, a list of materials needed, prediction section, brainstorming section, trials 1, 2, & 3, fin
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3rd - 7th
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Group Counseling Curriculum With Social Skills Activities, Anxiety Coping Skills
Looking for some complete small group counseling curriculums to use with your elementary students? Here are seven amazing ones bundled together for you! Full of social skills activities, anxiety coping skills, self-regulation strategies, and more! Perfect for social emotional behavioral MTSS, IEP counseling, or group counseling within your school counseling program. They are engaging, hands-on, skills-based, and include developmentally appropriate activities with relevant scenarios.Flower Girls
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K - 5th
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Elementary Social Skills Group Curriculum - 40 Lessons Speech Therapy ASD HFA
When I began working in the public schools, I quickly realized that there was a great need for social skills groups. Not sure where to begin, I purchased tons of books on the subject. However, most programs out there didn’t meet my needs – the lessons and activities were either too challenging / not engaging / too easy / required materials that you had to make yourself / etc. Over the last three years I have taught elementary level social skills groups by piece-mealing my very own curriculum, an
Grades:
1st - 6th
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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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