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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
First Thanksgiving Unit for Kindergarten and First Grade
Sail on the Mayflower and experience life as a Pilgrim and Wampanoag during this first Thanksgiving unit for kindergarten and first grade! The week-long comprehensive unit includes detailed daily lesson plans with literature suggestions. It incorporates reading, writing, math, history, handwriting, and art. It also has Google Slides to use for discussion and links to videos that complement the unit study.Click on the PREVIEW to read each lesson plan, see the Week-at-a-Glance planning sheet, as
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K - 1st
Little Social Studies Thinkers for K-1: Pilgrims and Native Americans /Wampanoag
This complete K-1 Thanksgiving History unit teaches historically accurate and factual lessons about the history of modern day Thanksgiving, the Pilgrims, and the Wampanoag people. Little Social Studies Thinkers is a complete social studies curriculum specifically for primary. It contains everything you need to teach a complete unit in a neat, organized package. It's very teacher friendly and student-approved! -------------------GET THE FULL YEAR-LONG CURRICULUM HERE--------------------Full FIR
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K - 1st
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Also included in: Little Social Studies Thinkers CURRICULUM {Kindergarten Social Studies}
Holidays and Christmas Around the World Digital and Printable
***RECENTLY UPDATED in 2020*** Christmas and Holidays Around the World Digital and Printable This unit provides interactive activities to study world holidays on a trip around the world. Students will embark on worldly travels to explore how other countries celebrate. Get the aligned Holidays Around the World Work skill pages HERE! There are 22 different included countries to choose from! Fill your own social studies journal or create the keepsake suitcase for the printable version or do
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Interactive Science and Social Studies Bundle Second Edition
Ancient Mesopotamia Learning Stations, 3D Ziggurat, Mesopotamia Activities
This resource contains six Mesopotamia learning stations that students can rotate through in small groups. Each ancient Mesopotamia learning station (or center) is designed to give students engaging and exciting learning experiences to practice, enrich, review, and enhance their learning. Students will visit each station with a small group and complete tasks and activities all about ancient Mesopotamia. Check this out! Students will create a 3-D ziggurat to showcase their learning. They’ll “bui
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5th - 8th
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Ancient Greece Stations, Parthenon Accordion Book, Ancient Greece Activities
This resource contains six ancient Greece learning stations that students can rotate through in small groups. Each learning station (or center) is designed to give students engaging and exciting learning experiences to practice, enrich, review, and enhance their learning. Students will visit each station with a small group and complete ancient Greece activities. Here’s the fun part! During the learning stations, students will create an accordion book to showcase their learning. They’ll “build” f
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5th - 8th
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Wants and Needs Worksheets and Sort Earning Money and Saving Kindergarten 1st
The primary economics materials in this resource were created to meet several standards within one unit. They address needs and wants, earning and saving, currency, jobs/community helpers, and more. Here is a detailed list of the pages included in this packet.Wants and Needs Activities Included:- Cut and paste sorting- Wants and Needs magazine cut and paste sort- 3 pages for drawing examples of needs and wants- A Flap Book - Labeling examples, with word bank- Color Code- 2 pages for Working to
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: Wants and Needs, Goods and Services Economics Bundle of Worksheets
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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Debate Lessons & Activities with Graphic Organizers & Rubrics
Teach your students how to debate! Debating can be difficult for students, but this resource will teach your students how to debate like pros. It takes them through the steps of the process, so they learn how to make and support solid arguments in a persuasive manner. Check the preview for lots of detail on how you can use this for debates in your classroom.LESSON ONE: an introduction to debates and a lesson on creating focused, clear, and supported arguments and claimsLESSON TWO: a practice
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8th - 10th
2nd & 3rd Grade Geography - Types of Communities Social Studies Activities
Teaching 2nd and 3rd grade students about the different types of communities is fun and exciting with these activities and worksheets! This social studies resource contains easy-to-follow lessons to help you teach your class about the different characteristics of communities in the U.S. Cover a variety of geography topics as your students will learn about the population, transportation, and homes in urban, suburban, and rural communities. This product includes lesson plans, foldables, activities
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2nd - 3rd
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Ancient India Unit with Learning Stations and Interactive Project
This resource contains six ancient India learning stations that students can rotate through in small groups. Each learning station (or ancient history learning center) is designed to give students engaging and exciting learning experiences to practice, enrich, review, and enhance their learning. Students will visit each station with a small group and complete tasks and assignments. Check this out! Students will create a 3-D interactive lotus flower filled with their learning. They’ll add inform
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4th - 7th
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Ancient Egypt Learning Stations, Sphinx Poster, Ancient Egypt Activities
This resource contains six ancient Egypt learning stations that students can rotate through in small groups. Each learning station (or center) is designed to give students engaging and exciting learning experiences to practice, enrich, review, and enhance their learning. Students will visit each station with a small group and complete ancient Egypt activities. How cool is this? Students will create an interactive sphinx to showcase their learning. They’ll “build” flip-able parts of the sphinx po
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4th - 7th
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The Holocaust PowerPoint Lesson and Guided Notes for Students (Print & Digital)
This 58 slide PowerPoint presentation on the Holocaust includes: Brief Background (Hitler's rise to power)Economic BoycottConcentration CampsNuremberg LawsKristallnachtGhettosThe Final SolutionWarsaw Ghetto UprisingLiquidation of the GhettosRighteous Among the Nation and ResistanceResistance in DenmarkResistance in BulgariaWorld ResponseMS St. LouisLiberation of Concentration and Death CampsResultsNuremberg Trials What's included in the download:*Editable PowerPoint presentation (58 slides, text
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8th - 11th
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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE Activity: Primary Source Analysis and Questions
The Declaration of Independence can be a daunting document for teachers to explain to students, but this primary source lesson will help students understand the major themes and concepts within the document itself. Though Thomas Jefferson's Declaration was written in the 18th century, this worksheet has proven to be a fantastic, big-picture way for today's students to study such an important writing without becoming overwhelmed. The Declaration is really just a big "break-up letter" from the co
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7th - 12th
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Design a National Park Arrowhead Research Project Activity - National Parks Week
Looking for a fun, no prep national parks project that integrates science, social studies, art, and literacy AND keeps kids engaged? Your students will love designing a national park arrowhead emblem for a chosen or assigned NPS site, and it will quickly become one of *your* favorite activities too. Perfect as a National Park Week (April), an end of year, or after testing activity, students think critically and work independently as they apply their knowledge to design an arrowhead for one of th
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4th - 12th
Ancient Rome Learning Stations 3-D Colosseum Gladiators Rome Activities
This resource contains six ancient Rome learning stations that students can rotate through in small groups. Each ancient Rome learning station (or center) is designed to give students engaging and exciting learning experiences to practice, enrich, review, and enhance their learning. Students will visit each station with a small group and complete tasks and assignments. Here’s the fun part! After students complete each ancient Rome activity at the learning stations, they’ll turn their work into
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4th - 7th
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Indigenous Artists in Canada | Elementary Art Lessons and Projects
This set of art projects incorporates painting, oil pastels, printmaking and carving to study six different artists in Canada who identify as First Nations or Métis through creating a piece of art inspired by George Littlechild, Bill Reid, Dana Standinghorn, Jason Carter, Benjamin Chee Chee and Leah Dorian.This inspiring product includes:six different art projects (each one can usually be completed within a few hours from start to the end of clean-up).complete lesson plans with step-by-step inst
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3rd - 6th
Citizenship - Rules and Laws, Good Citizenship Activities and Craft
Are you looking for some fun activities to teach about being a good citizen? This citizenship unit is great to teach at the beginning of the year. This civics unit teaches about rules and laws, being a good citizen, and the leaders in their lives.This unit is appropriate to use at any time in the school year. It is geared towards kindergarten through second grade. Everything is included for you to print and use to teach this topic in your classroom!This unit is part of a money saving FIRST GRADE
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K - 2nd
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Budgeting Activity: Monthly Budget Project and Worksheets for Middle School
If you are looking for a no-prep, yet detailed budgeting activity, look no further! In this budgeting activity for Google Drive, students will create a monthly budget. This monthly budget project features the elements of career, housing, transportation, monthly expenses, and more! This activity was designed to help with budgeting for middle school students, and was implemented in an 8th grade Social Studies class, but it could easily be incorporated in a variety of subjects and grade levels. Thi
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6th - 9th
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EMERGENCY SUB PLANS for Social Studies (5th, 6th, 7th Grade)
Don't worry about emergency sub plans anymore! Just print, copy, and store in your Emergency Sub Bin or Folder! This resource includes FIVE DAYS of highly engaging plans for your social studies classroom. These activities integrate literacy skills, so you could even use this for and ELA classroom! Resource Includes: 50 PagesTeacher Page: Detailed description and overview + copies needed Sub Pages: Feedback Forms, Schedules/Procedures, and Detailed Directions for Activities {Editable Version in G
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5th - 7th
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Reconstruction PowerPoint & Guided Notes (Print and Digital)
This 56 slide PowerPoint presentation covers the period of Reconstruction after the American Civil War beginning with Lincoln's Plan and ending with the South after Reconstruction.It includes the following topics:- Lincoln's Plan (10% Plan)- 13th Amendment- Reactions to Lincoln's Plan- Wade-Davis Bill- Assassination of Lincoln- Johnson's Plan- Reactions to Johnson's Plan- Johnson v. Congress- Radical Republicans- Congressional Reconstruction- Freedman's Bureau- 14th Amendment- Military Reconstru
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8th - 11th
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Hispanic Heritage Month Teaching Slides
Hispanic Heritage Month Teaching SlidesThis unit is what I wish I learned about as a Mexican-American kid to feel represented. Make a difference for this generation, and help your students learn about the contributions Hispanics have made to better our culture, quality of life, appreciation for the arts, politics, and travel. Even if you’re distance learning, you can still teach tolerance and embrace multiculturalism by using these Google teaching slides during Hispanic Heritage Month. Share t
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2nd - 5th
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The U.S. Constitution PowerPoint and Guided Notes (Print and Digital Resource)
This 67 slide PowerPoint presentation on the U.S Constitution covers a myriad of topics including:- Contents of Constitution- Ideals of Constitution- Federalism- Interstate Relations- Limits of Government- the 3 Branches- Checks and Balances- Flexibility of Constitution - Amendment Process- Bill of Rights- Amendments 11- 27 What's included in the download:*Editable PowerPoint presentation (67 slides, most text is editable, some graphics are not editable)**Google Slides version of PowerPoint (67
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9th - 12th
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World Religion Stations Activity Set & Comparing Religions Mingle- Print Digital
This World Religions Stations Activity Set is perfect for hands-on activities students can participate in! You will find activities for the 5 main religions: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, & Buddhism. Students will love all of the visuals included in this resource for better understanding.These world religion activities can be used as:class stationsa gallery walk a base for student presentationsThe activity set has great graphics and is completely Google Ready to be used in Google C
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5th - 10th
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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.
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.
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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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