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Free Kindergarten social studies homeschool curricula
Goods and Services - Financial Literacy - FREE
Are you looking for an easy prep unit to teach about goods and services? This FREE unit does just that! It includes posters, a book, and a printable. This personal financial literacy activity is great for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade students.This unit comes from my complete Financial Literacy unit that is both TEKS and California History aligned. You can see that unit HERE: • Financial Literacy Unit and LapbookThe lap book only portion from this unit is also available separate
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K - 2nd
FREEBIE: Make Your Own Treasure Map!
Pirate Treasure Map:
Get your students excited about learning about maps by having them make their own pirate treasure maps! This is a fun activity to accompany any unit on maps! Students will color and cut out the symbols. They will paste the symbols on their map and form a trail to the treasure! "X" marks the spot!!
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PreK - 3rd
Ruby Bridges Diversity Coloring page-Celebrating Black History Month
We are excited to bring you this fun free resource to add to your Black History Month teaching unit. If you like this page, you will want to check out our Ruby Bridges Bundle in our store at https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Ruby-Bridges-Black-History-Month-Diversity-Bundle-4364364
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PreK - 1st
Grocery Store Dramatic Play
Young learners love dramatic play! Preschoolers and kindergarteners love to pretend to be grown-ups and do things that grown-ups do. With these Grocery Store printables and some play food, you can set up a fun learning center in the classroom or at home.
The pack includes:
* main Grocery Store signs
* play money (bills and coins)
* employee name tags
* store departments signs
* cash register with money drawer (print on card stock, cut, fold, and tape to create)
Through dramatic play, kids im
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PreK - K
Mexico Country Study - Print & Teach Lesson - Reading Passages & Activity Pages
Take your learners on a tour of the world all from the comfort of your classroom! This print & teach country study teaches students about the beautiful country of Mexico. This product includes:4 pages of information to teach students basics about the country & cultureDifferentiated look back (or research) and color pageDifferentiated graphic organizer to record new learningDifferentiated words to know worksheetWord FindDay of the Dead art pageBlank world map to use to locate / color Mexi
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K - 3rd
Also included in: EPCOT's World Showcase Complete Country Study Unit Bundle - 11 week unit
Cookie Elections Voting Packet
For success choose the best! Cookie, that is! Introduce your young students to the voting process by conducting a fun classroom election. The Cookie Elections packet includes detailed lesson plans for the components of an election cycle, including primary elections, candidate debates, campaign advertisements, registering to vote, and determining the winner. Classroom photographs, a voter roster, registration cards, and sample ballots are provided.
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K - 2nd
{FREE} Chinese New Year -- Chinese Zodiac Wheel (Worksheet/Paper Plate Activity)
This Chinese Zodiac Wheel can be used as a worksheet or a craft activity to supplement your Mandarin or social study program, especially during the Chinese New Year time. It includes the 12 zodiac animals in order with Chinese characters and pinyin.
This packet includes both Mandarin and English versions.
You can refer to the Chinese Zodiac Animals posters and flashcards packet for the years of each animal. Students can find out the zodiac signs for themselves and their family members.
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PreK - 12th
A House is a Home for Everyone! Freebie
Tired of the same teaching themes and you want a change? After coming across the book A House is a House for Me by Mary Ann Hoberman, (which I fell in love with), I decided to do a unit on Homes (and Family) in lieu of The Gingerbread Man in December. The potential of the use of a “Home” theme is incredible and limitless and still reinforces remediation skills that some children still need. This is an important concept to me because of my own experiences of teaching so far away from family. A h
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PreK - K
The World Where I Live...
This is a jam-packed, 40 page unit full of multi-sensory and multi-grade-level activities all centering on the relationships between the following concepts: city/town/village, county, state, country, continent, and community helpers. The following mathematical concepts are also explored: range, median, mode, and average (mathematical mean).
The following activities are included in this unit: Key vocabulary exercise, coloring Venn diagram activity, "Greater Than, Less Than" activity page, "My
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K - 8th
Continent and Ocean Matching Map Activity
What fun it is to study about our world! In this free download, you will have a world map of the oceans and continents! Children will be able to attach the labels to the map to identify each part. Velcro pieces are attached to the backs of the labels and to the oceans and continents of the map for a fun review activity.
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PreK - 4th
Christmas Around the World - Printable Packet
Christmas Around the World - A Printable Packet
Discover how children around the world celebrate Christmas. Learn about Father Christmas, Befana, Boxing Day, presebras, posadas, Little Christmas and more.
Also included in this packet are recipes to the foods eaten by children in different countries on Christmas.
This packet contains links to outside sources - please visit and preview before teaching.
A "Christmas Around the World" crossword puzzle is included with answer key.
We
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K - 3rd
7 Days of Creation Mini Book
Two different types of 7 Days of Creation Mini Books: One version is for students to read and color and the other is for children to draw their own pictures to go along with the seven days
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PreK - 2nd
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Catholic Activities: Stations of the Cross: Interactive Stations and Booklet
Catholic Activities: Stations of the Cross: Interactive Stations and BookletBlessings to All!A little gift from Catholic Cutie to You!Enjoy this Interactive Stations of the Cross Booklet as well as your very own Stations of the Cross Cut Outs!These Stations are created with references to the Way of the Cross by Saint Alphonsus Ligouri with stanzas of the Stabat Mater.Please Note: These are created for varied ages and levels. They are simply teaching templates to promote and practice this beautif
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PreK - 6th
Classroom Passport Template FLEX
A passport template for teaching about travel, foreign languages, cultures, countries etc.
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PreK - 7th
FREE Long Ago and Today: Part 2 Transportation
This unit explores how transportation was long ago compared to now. It includes 2 picture sorts, multiple picture cards of items long ago, as well as an assessment.
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K - 5th
Christopher Columbus Activity Book for Grades K-3 and Homeschool
Christopher Columbus Activity Book for Grades K-3 and Homeschool⭐Great for homeschool - this supplemental activity book about Christopher Columbus (Lesson #1) offers hands-on activities and includes a map, word search, cloze passage, & coloring page. ⭐In the actual lesson, your child will encounter history through text, vocabulary words, pictures, crafts, maps, games, speeches, and even some recipes. This activity book can be used to appeal to different types of learners and provides ways to
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K - 3rd
Geography Jumpers: Peru
COMPLETELY UPDATED AND RENOVATED JUNE 2016!
****Free!**** Download soon so you can become acquainted with my Geography Jumpers series!!!
This unit explores the country, the continent it's located in, it's flag, and many other facts, including its culture and what school is like there. This is one unit in a series that includes 25 countries.
This series is perfect for preschoolers, Pre-K, Kindergarten, first grade, and second grade.
Items included:
Fact Sheet
Photo cards
Word wall cards
Coun
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PreK - 2nd
United States Geography Worksheets - Free Sample
This is a sample of the 70 page United States Geography Worksheets.You will be amazed at how quickly your students will learn with these easy to use worksheets! Just print and go!These worksheets facilitate memorizing state information in a fun, easy, no-prep way! Great for early finishers, morning work, an extra-curricular unit, etc.Included at the end of the full unit are United States flag posters in color that can be printed and displayed to use for the flag coloring activities.The full, 70
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K - 6th
Free Genealogy Family Trees in English and Spanish
This is a series of printable sheets for PK-5 classrooms where students can enter information. Students can include the name, date of birth, pictures, or drawings as needed. This will encourage children to want to learn more about their families. A good introduction to this activitiy is found in the book GIANNA THE GREAT on Amazon.com ow.ly/KERd9
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PreK - 5th
My Own World Map
Have your children learn about the world around them in relation to their own home address, street name, city, state, country, continent, and world map. Have them color in the map or color it in yourself. For our map we printed and then used a hole-punch to put our map together on a simple metal ring. The file is currently loaded with simple clip-art outlines for North America, United States and Florida, but can easily be interchanged with outlines from other continents, countries and states. Ti
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PreK - 4th
FREE Long Ago and Today: Part 1 School
This unit explores how school was long ago compared to now. It includes a picture sort, multiple picture cards of items long ago, as well as an assessment.
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K - 5th
The Mystery of Roanoke Island American History for Grades K-3 and Homeschool
The Mystery of Roanoke Island American History for Grades K-3 and Homeschool❤️Join John White and the colonists as they travel to Virginia! See if you can solve the mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke.⭐Written for Grades K-3 and great for homeschoolers, students will learn through text, vocabulary words, pictures, and more in this free supplemental lesson of my 34-week study of early American history! **comes in PPT & PDF✅For the complete bundle of all 34 lessons click HERE!#AmericanHisto
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K - 3rd
Crayon Man Unit Study
Edwin Binney was an American entrepreneur and inventor, who created the first dustless white chalk, and along with his cousin C. Harold Smith, was the founder of handicrafts company “Binney and Smith”, which marketed his invention of the Crayola crayon. Learn more about him and his invention of the crayon with this unit study is appropriate for ALL ages.Mini Unit Study Includes:Book ListYouTube PlaylistPinterest BoardColoring PageBiography ResearchCompare & ContrastTimelineCopy Work (Tracing
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PreK - 8th
Lesson plan: How Much for a New Name (money)
Quick activity & lesson that has primary students working co-operatively in groups, practicing addition, reviewing vowels and consonants and learning coin values.You can also incorporate names changes from the Bible (like Saul to Paul) and "The greatest shall be the least and the servant of all?" Contains links to internet resources and builds math/money vocabulary such as more, less, fewer, greater than, less than, and equal to.Check out these other products and freebies: Oceans PPT 59 s
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K - 2nd
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