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3rd grade social studies lessons for Easel Activities
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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Map Skills Package
This package contains a variety of handouts, worksheets, a lesson idea, and an activity to help teach students map skills such as scale, cardinal and intermediate directions, types of maps (planimetric, thematic, topographic), and basic map elements (legend, title etc.)
Contents
Welcome
Teaching Guide (3 pages)
Latitude, Longitude, and Directions: The Orange Lesson
Latitude Labeling Worksheet Option 1 (label)
Latitude Labeling Worksheet Option 2 (trace)
Cardinal and Intermediate Directions Han
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Map Skills Bundle: activities, worksheets, crafts, posters + more
Primary and Secondary Sources Activities - Social Studies Unit 3rd 4th 5th Grade
This extensive Primary and Secondary Sources unit is great for teaching, reinforcing, practicing, and assessing student understanding of this important social studies concept. Your students will learn how to analyze primary and secondary source material through guided lessons, worksheets, sorts, and activities, with a fun project at the end!This best-selling unit is:Comprehensive - can be a standalone resource or a supplement to your existing curriculumEasy-to-Use - includes lesson plans as well
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3rd - 5th
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Ancient Greece Activities Project Craft Activity STEM History Olympics Challenge
Ancient Greece STEM & STEAM ChallengesCross-curricular challenges for students who are studying Ancient Civilizations and Ancient Greece! This resource has science, technology, engineering, and measurement activities to do with your upper elementary kids that will really enhance their learning! There are 3 Greece 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, &
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3rd - 7th
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Ancient Mesopotamia Activities STEM Project Challenges Cuneiform Ziggurat
Ancient Mesopotamia STEM & STEAM ChallengesCross-curricular challenges for students who are studying Ancient Civilizations and Ancient Mesopotamia! 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 Mesopotamia STEM Challenges in this pack. Each STEM Challenge has detailed directions, photo examples, a list of materials needed, prediction section, brainstorming section, tria
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3rd - 6th
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Amelia Earhart Build an Airplane READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Integrate STEM and Social Studies in your classroom during Women's History Month with this Amelia Earhart STEM Challenge! Travel through the skies with Amelia Earhart! Build an Airplane STEM Challenge is a fun and unique way to engage your students during Women's History Month. Teach students that anyone can be a successful pioneer in industry regardless of gender. Students begin the activity by reading about Amelia Earhart and learning vocabulary on different aspects of flight (thrust, lift, dr
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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
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Also included in: Women's History Month READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities BUNDLE #1
Scarcity Economics Unit
These scarcity and choice activities were designed as a cross curricular economics unit. They will help your students learn what scarcity is, how it is caused, and how they can help make better choices to limit its effects. Social Studies, reading, and writing lessons are all included in this unit.This product is part of my Economics Bundle. Click on the link below to check out the bundle and save money!Economics Bundled Unit!Please view the preview prior to purchasing to make sure these acti
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1st - 3rd
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MAP SKILLS & GEOGRAPHY Vocabulary Activities 2nd 3rd Grade GOOGLE SLIDES & EASEL
Discover the world & learn geographical terms with Google Slides MAP SKILLS and GEOGRAPHY Activity set! This interactive resource contains 15 Google Slides and 14 EASEL Pages full of map and geography vocabulary. This resource also includes four interactive vocabulary pages, four interactive map term and icon pages, and six interactive maps and questions to promote greater understanding and memorization. Included vocabulary: Gulf, River, Lake, Plain, Valley, Peninsula, Mountain, Island, Ocea
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2nd - 4th
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Local Government Interactive Lapbook. Digital & Printable
Social Studies Mini-Unit: Local Government. Community Laws. Government Services. Positions in Local Government. Mayor Duties.This resource includes Posters, Picture Cards, Vocabulary Cards, Lapbook Activities, Quiz, and Answer Keys. Please download the Preview for more pictures of this unit. Here is what’s included:1) 5 Full Page Lesson Posters:-What is a Government- Government Services-Community Laws-Mayor Duties- Positions in Local Government2) 6 (½ page) Government Services Picture Cards3) V
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: Government Interactive Lapbooks Bundle
The Stone Age Activities STEM Challenges Archaeology Projects Early Humans Tools
The Stone Age STEM & STEAM Challenges | Archaeology | Early HumansCross-curricular challenges for students who are studying Ancient Civilizations and The Stone Age! 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 Stone Age STEM Challenges in this pack. Each STEM Challenge has detailed directions, photo examples, a list of materials needed, prediction section, brainstormin
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3rd - 7th
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Bill of Rights- How Important Are Our Rights? A Two-Part Activity
Bill of Rights- Facilitate interesting and engaging conversations with this fun activity! This is a fun, unique way for students to learn about the Bill of Rights. In the first part of this activity, students work in cooperative groups to read about, discuss, and determine the rights that are most important to them. The rights are written in kid-friendly language. Students will pretend to help the alien nation of "Montack" create a new Bill of Rights, using only five rights. Thus, students must
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Constitution Bundle
Ancient China STEM Projects Challenges Activities - Great Wall STEM
Ancient China STEM & STEAM Challenges
Cross-curricular challenges for students who are studying Ancient Civilizations and Ancient China!
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 China 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, &
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3rd - 7th
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Wax Museum Biography Research Project: Living History Presentation Activity
Planning a wax museum or living history presentation? This flexible, comprehensive resource lays out four options for your project. Teacher, student, and parent resources - with examples - guide you from beginning to end. Now you can create a biography activity that’s right for this class at this time. Open the preview to take a closer look. Pages are available as a printable PDF, editable Google Slides, and digital Easel Activities.Ten pages of teacher resources will help you choose the scope a
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Biography Unit - Genre Study for Fourth and Fifth Grade Students
Seven Sacred Teachings Mini Unit with Art Project for Social Emotional Learning
This Indigenous (Aboriginal, First Peoples, First Nations) social studies mini unit is a meaningful printable package that blends the Seven Sacred Teachings, also known as the Seven Grandfather Teachings, with Social Emotional Learning (SEL).This resource engages students to explore the Indigenous values of love, respect, honesty, humility, courage, wisdom, and truth. This resource is digital ready and can be easily assigned for distance learning through Google ClassroomTM. What You Get:Informat
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Indigenous ALL YEAR Social Studies History & Culture Mega Bundle
Cultural Diversity
Cultural Diversity Family Unit! These lessons will help your students learn about other cultures in order to see diversity in family life.
These lessons were created as a cross curricular Social Studies unit. It includes lessons in reading, writing, and social studies.
Please download the preview to see a sampling of the activities included with this download. This will ensure it is appropriate for your grade level.
These lessons are now included in a bundled product!
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Grades:
K - 3rd
Also included in: Cultural Diversity Bundle
Pirate Map Skills: Grid Coordinates, Cardinal & Ordinal Directions, Symbols
Teach and strengthen coordinate grid math, geography mapping skills like map symbols and cardinal and ordinal directions with a compass rose, and new vocabulary with these pirate themed printable worksheets. These are fun mini-lesson activities for Talk Like A Pirate Day on September 19th or if you have a pirates themed unit. Cardinal directions and coordinate grid mapping are important introductory skills to mastering latitude and longitude map skills and being able to use an atlas. Coordinate
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Pirates Thematic Unit Study Bundle: Talk Like A Pirate Pack!
Myth of Antebellum South vs. Harsh Realities of Slavery
Students will read and answer text dependent questions about the myth of the Antebellum South vs. the harsh realities of southern plantations prior to the Civil War. There is also a foldable that can be printed and students can complete with information from the reading material.
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Also included in: Civil War Bundle
Viking Alphabet Norse Runes Learning Activity
Design a Viking Norse sword with runes as a rune master!These runes are Elder Futhark runes, an early alphabet of the Vikings or Norse people. The activity page features background information about Norse beliefs of how runes were magical and ways they were used historically. Students compose a message and translate it into the runic alphabet and decorate their sword with them. If students translate the title on their paper into English from the runes, it reads "Rune Master."You will notice some
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1st - 6th
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Juneteenth A Freedom Celebration Task Cards
These Task Cards introduce students to information and fun facts about Juneteenth. Table of Contentscover card for organizing and storing scavenger hunt20 task cards in color20 task cards in b/wstudent answer sheetcrossword puzzle in 2 formats for differentiation answer keyslist of Juneteenth resourcesHow to Use this Product1. Print the Juneteenth Task Cards on card stock or brightly colored paper and cut them apart along the dotted lines. 2. Make copies of the Juneteenth student pages. Each stu
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Black History Month Scavenger Hunt Bundle
Margaret Hamilton and the Moon READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Integrate STEM and Social Studies in your classroom during Women's History Month with this Margaret Hamilton Space STEM Challenge! Help Apollo astronauts land safely on the moon with Margaret Hamilton! Build a Lunar Lander STEM Challenge is a fun and unique way to engage your students during Women's History Month. Teach students that anyone can be successful in STEM regardless of gender. Students begin the activity by reading about Margaret Hamilton and learning vocabulary about Lunar Landers. Y
Grades:
K - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Women's History Month READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities BUNDLE #1
Earth Day Scavenger Hunt
This scavenger hunt teaches about Earth Day and the importance of reducing, recycling, and reusing to care for our planet. Table of Contents• cover card for organizing and storing scavenger hunt• 20 colorful information cards• 20 black and white information cards• student work pages • three class activities• original Earth Day poem• answer keyHow to Use this Product1. Print the sentence cards on card stock and cut them apart along the dotted lines. 2. Make copies of Earth Day Re3 Scavenger Hunt
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3rd - 4th
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Also included in: Holiday Scavenger Hunts Bundle
Australia Mapping States Territories and Capitals
This mapping pack will help your students understand what the Australian states and territories are and where the capitals are located. Students can use the hands-on activities to map Australia's climate, position in the Southern Hemisphere and location worldwide. The companion PowerPoint slides will guide students through each worksheet (with written and cut-and-paste options), the lapbook templates create a fun research project for students, and the fact cards will help guide them in their exp
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Also included in: Australia Bundle Maps Geography
Landforms Scavenger Hunt + Free BOOM Cards
With this scavenger hunt students will gain knowledge of landforms, while practicing naming them. The scavenger hunt is provided in three formats; with photographs, color illustrations, and black/white illustrations. Two formats for student use with the scavenger hunt cards are now included; a questions sheet and a crossword puzzle. Directions for Use1. Print the Landforms Scavenger Hunt cards on card stock then cut them apart. Laminate for durability if desired. 2. Make copies of the Landforms
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Landforms Bundle
3rd 4th 5th Grade Non Fiction Close Reading Christmas Holidays Around the World
Use these close reading passages to keep rigor and learning alive in your classroom, even as winter break approaches! These passages have a reading level between 860 to 1120 and are great for small group/guided reading. I have always found there tends to be a lot of Holidays around the World information for the younger grades, but not so much for the intermediate grades. Each passage includes 4 comprehension questions where students are asked to go back into their text and underline the suppor
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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