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3rd grade social studies rubric pdfs
North Carolina Lighthouse Project
This project has students research one lighthouse in North Carolina. Their goal of the project is to write a research paper and create a poster giving details about one lighthouse in North Carolina. It can be completed in one to two weeks and can be done in partners or independently. Students can choose one of the lighthouses in North Carolina and began researching on the first day. They used http://www.lighthousefriends.com/nc.html to get a lot of their information. If every group cannot have s
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Abraham Lincoln Informative Writing Prompt with two Passages/Articles
With this resource, students must use information from two unique & engaging passages to write an evidence-based informative essay explaining three major things that Abraham Lincoln did during his lifetime. This writing prompt is perfect for Lincoln's birthday or for around President's Day. Many extras are included to help you along the way. If your students have to take a standardized writing test where the writing prompt includes passages/articles, then this product is a must-have!*Please
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3rd - 5th
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Map Skills - Grid, Scale, Map Keys and Map Flip Book
Are you looking for a map skills resource? This resource is packed with map skills: map keys, grid maps, and scale maps. Your students will also create a map of their classroom and their bedroom. There is a home project with a parent letter. Plus, a template for making a tab map booklet with writing templates is included. Your students will learn so much with these map activities!How it Works:â–ºStudents will learn about map keys, grid maps, and map scale.â–ºThere are practice pages along with hands
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2nd - 3rd
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Brochure Rubric
This rubric can be used for any subject area when a student has created a brochure to showcase their topic! This can be used at multiple grade levels and is very generic so it can fit for almost any project that requires students to create a brochure! I especially like to use these for science/social studies, but be creative! :)
Enjoy!
Grades:
1st - 12th
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Social Studies Report Card Comments - Ontario, Alberta and BC Grade 4 - EDITABLE
SAVE TIME and write your best Social Studies report card comments for Early Societies and Political and Physical Regions of Canada units. Copy and paste directly into your report card program or edit to personalize for your students. Whether you're a new teacher, new to grade 4, or just looking for new ideas, this will help. The comments included in this resource can be used for Progress reports, Term reports as well as End of Year reports!LOCK IN THIS PRICE! Â **You will have FREE UPDATES for an
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3rd - 5th
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Debate Graphic Organizers
Includes five different resources for classroom debates...
Two graphic organizers for students to use during the research and preparation process. These include sections for the group to write down their argument and supporting reasons/facts, organize how they want to present their argument, and write down notes during the debate for their rebuttal. (One is a little more detailed and complex, and one is simpler, for younger students or shorter debates!)
Two student scoring rubrics to help keep
Grades:
2nd - 10th
Student Self Assessment Rubric Poster Presentation Social Studies Science Math
You will download poster presentation rubric packet including a student self assessment rubric and a teacher version for creating a poster in social studies, science, math, art, and more. The first poster rubric may be used by the teacher to assess the students' skills in use of time, pictures/graphics, required elements, readability/attractiveness, and grammar/mechanics. The assessment is on a four point scale. The second assessment is the student version of the first assessment and uses "I
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in:Â Student Self Assessment Rubric Social Studies Poster Summarizing Lit Circles
Three Branches of Government Brochure Project & Rubric
This resource is an engaging project for teaching the branches of our government. Students can create a brochure with a cover illustrating how the three branches are rooted to the Constitution and open the fist fold to read The Preamble. Inside the brochure the students will list characteristics of each branch as a trifold. As an extension students can use the illustration to observe and sketch the buildings ( The White House, The Capitol, and The Supreme Court) where each branch is housed. Sco
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Also included in:Â USA Presidential Bundle: 3 Branches of Government and Hall of Fame Project
State Research Writing Project & Other Activites Common Core Aligned
Get your students writing.....the fun way! I love this project because there are so many different things you can do with it. It comes complete with project guidelines and graphic organizers. There is a sheet with approved websites for research and themed final draft paper. Your students will love taking all the information they have gathered and putting it into a trifold brochure. This makes a super cute classroom display. It can easily be turned into a large poster project. Set aside a day
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2nd - 6th
Also included in:Â Writing Research Projects & Activities - BUNDLE
UPDATED 2023 Grade 3 Ontario Social Studies Report Card Comments EDITABLE + BC
UPDATED to align with 2023 Ontario Social Studies curriculum. SAVE TIME and write your best Social Studies REPORT CARDS for Living & Working in Ontario and Communities in Canada. We have also included a separate comment bank for British Columbia Social Studies teachers!Copy and paste directly into your report card program or edit to personalize for your students. Whether you're a new teacher, new to grade 3, or just looking for new ideas, this will help. The comments included in this resourc
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2nd - 4th
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Social Studies Project Rubric
A well-crafted universally designed social studies project rubric graded out of 32 points. Categories of the rubric are Historical Accuracy, Use of Details, Creativity, Neatness, Writing Style, and Timeliness.Created for and currently used to grade middle school level project; however, this rubric can be used for virtually any grade.
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3rd - 9th
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UPDATED 2023 Grade 2 Ontario Social Studies Report Card Comments EDITABLE + BC
UPDATED to align with 2023 Ontario Social Studies curriculum. SAVE TIME and write your best Social Studies REPORT CARDS for Global Communities and Changing Family & Community Traditions. We have also included a separate comment bank for British Columbia Social Studies teachers!Copy and paste directly into your report card program or edit to personalize for your students. Whether you're a new teacher, new to grade 2, or just looking for new ideas, this will help. The comments included in this
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1st - 3rd
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California Mission Report ~ Common Core ~ Expository Writing ~ No Prep
Help your students stay organized with this California Mission Report resource. It guides students to write a 5 paragraph informational/expository report on any California Mission.
Common Core Writing Standards ~ W.4.2, W.4.4, W.4.5, W.4.6, W.4.7, W.4.8, W.4.9, W.4.10
7 pages Included
Page 1 ~ Rubric: Keeps student organized by showing what information is expected in each paragraph. Students staple to report & it doubles as rubric for you to use to give them their score.
Pages 2-6 ~ Rese
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Timeline Project | Distance Learning
Timeline Project
This is a simple and fun take-home project for your students! If you are covering timelines, this would be the perfect project for your students. It also gets the parents involved! A rubric is involved: one with a bonus opportunity and one without
Grades:
K - 5th
Native American Museum Project Based Learning Activities
Native American Museum Project Based Learning Activities: Project based learning is an important part of any classroom. In this unit, students will follow the rubric to research a specific tribe for the Native American Society of Elders. The Native American Society of Elders is creating a Native American Museum of History. They feel it is important to be correctly represented. Each group will research and represent a different tribe (Arctic (Inuit), Northwest (Kwakiutl), Plateau (Nez Perce), Sou
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Les civilisations anciennes : unité complète
Le document «Les civilisations anciennes» est une unité complète qui propose un enseignement sous forme de processus d’enquête pour les élèves d'immersion française. Les élèves sont enseignés des concepts clés pour pouvoir être capables d’une enquête sur une civilisation ancienne et ensuite partager avec leurs pairs puis comparer plusieurs civilisations anciennes.Dans ce document vous allez retrouver:– Les documents pour enseigner les concepts clés– La leçon complète de l’unité– Les documents Ã
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3rd - 5th
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Space Colonies Simulation/Project
A massively HUGE hit in my classroom!
After studying colonization, invite your students to design their own colony... in space! Incorporates science, social studies, reading, writing, researching, and communicating skills. Allows students to pursue areas of interest and be creative while simultaneously hitting required learning targets. A great problem-solving, higher-order thinking project that every student can engage in!
Download includes project overview, detailed grading rubric based on t
Grades:
3rd - 12th
American Revolution ABC Book Project
If your class is studying the American Revolution, this is a fabulous project to culminate what they have learned in the unit. In this project, students create a book that explains vocabulary terms, people, places and events for most letters of the alphabet. (I made the suggestion of combining some letters on a page, XYZ for example, and allowing them to choose one letter to use.)
This project allows students to have some choice in their creation, but still has guidelines and rubrics for se
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3rd - 9th
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Living Wax Museum Rubric
This living wax museum project is by far one of my favorite things about teaching 3rd grade. Truth be told this wax museum project can be used from 2nd grade all the way until 6th grade. Students take on the role of someone else, they dress up like an important historical figure and then they put on a show for their families and entire school It is a memory that is worth creating for your students! This is just one piece of the project (the rubric for grading), but you can grab the bundle HERE i
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in:Â Living Wax Museum Project
Rubric: Science and Social Studies Interactive Notebook
Here is a 25 point rubric for the interactive notebook. There are 5 areas to be assessed. A large copy is provided to be placed in the front of the notebook for student reference. The small copies are for the teacher to glue in the notebook as it is graded. (daily, weekly, semester, etc.) The teacher can provide regular feedback for students.
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3rd - 8th
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FAMOUS PERSON BIOGRAPHY RESEARCH Graphic Organizer Template history + RUBRIC
Use and reuse this blank graphic organizer for informational writing guides students in compiling key facts about a famous person, allowing you to assess research, writing and oral skills. For distance learning, students could also record their voice or make a video of their presentation.Includes an oral presentation rubric for assessment.Students can:-record researched information about the famous person's birth, death (if applicable), accomplishments, childhood, education, hobbies and other in
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Social Studies 2-5: A Thanksgiving Project Based Learning Resource
Do you need ideas for elementary Thanksgiving activities? Have you heard of Problem Based Learning? This product uses activities for elementary grades that are ready for a higher-level Thanksgiving activity.This is a thanksgiving project incorporating social studies standards while using Problem Based Learning. Many of our social studies standards are similar when it comes to Thanksgiving. Even if you are not from AZ, it will be easy to find the standards that this meets. It includes everythin
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2nd - 4th
Branches of Government Research Project for ELA CCSS and Social Studies
This research project incorporates student comprehension of various informational texts, explanatory writing, planning and publishing opinion writing, creativity, and presentation! Students will benefit from this all inclusive Branches of Government unit that aligns with 16 of the 3rd grade ELA CCSS, 20 of the 4th Grade ELA CCSS, and 22 of the 5th Grade ELA CCSS.
This 23 page project includes the following:
*Lists of all 3rd, 4th and 5th Grade ELA CCSS
*Notes for the Teacher
*Student Research
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3rd - 5th
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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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