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12th grade social studies thematic unit plans
Sociology Course Curriculum - Introduction to Sociology & Social Issues Units
Teach Sociology with confidence and impact with this full-course curriculum that will transform your students into thoughtful self-reflectors and change-makers.Whether you're brand new to teaching it (never taking a single Soc class in college) or you're simply looking for a more meaningful and streamlined course than the hodge-podge of lessons you currently have, this course will save you time and sanity.Best of all, every student activity comes in both print PDF and paperless Google files, mak
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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FRANCOPHONE COUNTRIES FRENCH SPEAKING COUNTRIES ⭐ Videos PPT Google Maps Quizzes
Do you struggle to make Francophone countries culture come alive? Want to bring your students on virtual field trips to all the major French speaking countries without ever leaving your classroom? Want to convince even your most reluctant learners to speak French so they can visit all these beautiful places? This is a whole year of Francophone culture. Hours of lesson plans including 101 Francophone countries video clips, colorful photos, facts, nationality practice, flashcards, a research pr
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2nd - 12th
Ascendencia Heritage Speaker Materials- Year One Bundle- 2023 Edition
This bundle has enough material to cover at least one year of heritage Spanish class. Download the scope and sequence preview for this bundle here. SEE PREVIEW FOR FULL DETAILS.What's inside?Editable Syllabus for Heritage Spanish Speakers Year One - Plan de EstudiosFirst Day of Heritage Speaker Class QuestionnaireAmor Propio: Pear DeckAmor Propio: temas para escribirHeritage Speakers Unit: La identidad Bilingual Struggles Google Slides for Heritage Speakers Class "LA LUCHA ES REAL"Bilingual Stru
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9th - 12th
APUSH Period 4 Full Unit Scrapbook Project Based Learning - Digital + Print
Whether you are a new APUSH teacher or a veteran looking to shake things up, this unit project will get your students thinking critically and creatively about history. Mix up your AP United States History class with this 10 part Unit-Long Project covering all Key Concepts from the College Board Course Description. This unit is designed to supplement all the major APUSH Textbooks. Includes links to online sources for researching each topic. This Unit Project gives students a creative and personal
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9th - 12th
Also included in: APUSH Semester 1 Bundle: 4 Complete Digital Units for AP US History
Life Skills Unit BUNDLE (Special Education & Autism Resource)
Get one unit for FREE when you buy the bundle!! This is a bundle of 7 different life skills units designed to help your students have a greater understanding of life skills and the vocabulary associated with it. This functional life skills curriculum is everything you need to teach critical life skills. These thematic units are designed to enhance and further your student's life skills and understanding of their community. Target crucial life skills with these reading, vocabulary and work tasks
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PreK - 12th
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Selma (2014): Document Based Question Bundle (Movie Guide + Essay Outline + DBQ)
**** If you purchase this product, you do not have to purchase the movie guide separately! This bundle includes the movie guide! DBQs are an excellent way to hit most of the Common Core standards in your class. If there is one activity that encapsulates the requirements of the Common Core - the DBQ is it! This DBQ is designed to help students combine their knowledge of the movie "Selma" with primary/secondary source documents! This is a great culminating activity for the movie!Prompt: Analyze th
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8th - 12th
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Grocery Store Life Skills Unit for Special Ed - Integrated Reading Comprehension
Make teaching about the grocery store fun with these engaging, hands-on, and visually supported activities! This set includes resources to help you integrate reading, writing, and vocabulary into your life skills lessons. Materials are already leveled and include visual supports to help you easily differentiate and meet the needs of your students without extra work.***HUGE savings by buying the Life Skills Unit BUNDLE***WHO IS IT FOR?Students who need hands-on practiceClassrooms with students on
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PreK - 12th
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Also included in: Life Skills Unit BUNDLE (Special Education & Autism Resource)
1st Amendment Lessons/Unit- Civil Liberties
This resource includes 3-4 days of engaging lessons that comprehensively cover the five freedoms of 1st amendment. Perfect for any civil liberties unit!Included in the product: - Gallery Walk Activity: Interactive anticipatory set that will engage students and teach them to think critically about some 1st amendment controversies. - 29-slide Power Point/Google Slides presentation that will cover important content of all 5 freedoms. The presentation includes unit content, landmark Supreme Court ca
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9th - 12th
Also included in: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Unit BUNDLE: AP® U.S. Government
Black History Month Periodic Table EDITABLE
*Original Seller of This Product*Black History Month Bulletin Board/DisplayWomen's History Month Bulletin Board/DisplayHispanic Heritage Bulletin Board/DisplayThis Set Includes:*Periodic Table of Black History*Periodic Table of Women in History*Hispanic Heritage Periodic TableEach Periodic Table Includes: *90 Historic Names (color or black and white)*90 color boxes in 2 sizes (These sets require color ink to print.)*90 black and white boxes in 2 sizes (These sets are ink savers but they do requ
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PreK - 12th, Staff
Abridged Food Truck Business, Marketing, and Finance Semester Project Bundle
Engage your students in course content with this relatable, food truck-themed project. This product incorporates many aspects of the business world including: marketing, finance, sales, business pitches, business plans, etc. This is a semester project meant to accompany a high school business course such as Introduction to Business and Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Business Essentials, or Marketing I. This is a smaller selection of materials that also appear in the best-selling Food Truck Busines
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Children of Blood and Bone Novel Study
This product is a comprehensive set of instructional materials for teaching Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi. With over 140+ Common Core aligned materials, students will develop their literacy skills while deeply engaging with the novel. Plus, the literary analysis resources, critical consciousness activities and discussions, fiction close readings, West Africa and Yoruba historical and cultural readings and activities, extension projects, vocabulary, assessments, and essays all provid
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8th - 12th
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Ascendencia Heritage Speaker Materials- Year Two Bundle- 2023 Edition
This bundle has enough material to cover one year of heritage Spanish class.Mix and MatchYou can mix and match units from this bundle with my other two curriculum bundles. The difficulty is not necessarily harder than the materials included in my year one bundle or my year three bundle, I just covered different topics. I teach the same students for three years so I created a three-year curriculum cycle. All heritage students are in the same course regardless of level and each year the new ninth
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9th - 12th
Patriot Day September 11th Bulletin Board Set - 9/11 - SEPTEMBER B.B.
Remember September 11th, 2001 with this patriotic bulletin board set. The set is designed for a square bulletin board, but can be adapted for a rectangular bulletin board. To adapt the design for a rectangular board, have students write thank you letters to first responders in the community using the "Thank you Hero" letter templates included in this product. Then display copies of the student letters to the right of the skyline silhouette. The download will include the following:- "We remembe
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4th - 12th
Also included in: Monthly Bulletin Boards for a Year BUNDLE
Semester-Long bundle for English First Peoples/Indigenous Literature/NBE
Here is a discounted bundle of all my resources that go into my semester long calendar that were created by me- I personally use this in BC for English First Peoples. Skip planning as much as possible and use these ready-made units on poetry, storytelling, podcasting, journalism, media literacy, and more- all with a focus on Indigenous voices in Canada!To see how I use this resource check out my full FREE calendar HERE!If you need more Indigenous/First Nations resources (if you teach year-long
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10th - 12th
Ascendencia Heritage Speaker Materials- Year Three Bundle- 2023 Edition
This bundle has enough material to cover one year of heritage Spanish class.What's inside?First Week of School- Editable Syllabus for Heritage Spanish Speakers Year Three - Plan de Estudios- Normas de la clase/Classroom Procedures Notes Sheet- Digital Scavenger Hunt: Summer Vacation- Mi mapa de input lingüístico: a Growth Mindset Lesson for Heritage Speakers- El extraño fenómeno del granizo que cayó en Guadalajara - una lección completaAlta MarFREE- Alta Mar: Temporada 1 // High Seas: Season One
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9th - 12th
Media Literacy: The Complete Unit
This unit is a student favorite-- they often want to keep the conversation going and seek out ways to apply the information learned from this unit to their everyday lives. This unit covers everything from identifying fake news, avoiding filter bubbles and echo chambers, native advertising, logical fallacies, the first amendment, using Wikipedia the smart (and safe!) way, social media algorithms, and more!
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
America in the 1970s and 1980s Digital Learning Deluxe Bundle
Do you need to update your activities, but don't have the time? Are you looking for "state of the art", innovative, and engaging activities to help your students comprehend the changes to America and the world in the 1960's? Do you want to convert your class into a "21st century" learning environment? This bundle is ONE OF A KIND! Digital and Paper Copies Included!This "America in the 1970's & 1980s Unit Activity" Bundle has everything you need to teach your students about the key events, pe
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Human Impact on the Environment -25 lessons including poetry, spelling and more!
This 5 week unit is designed to help teach students about the many impacts humans have had on our environment. It incorporates:* History -skills and knowledge* Geography - understanding of nature and the world around us* Science - understanding the environment and how we impact on it* English - reading, writing, comprehension, viewing and respondingThe unit of work includes a plan for 5 lessons per week, roughly 60mins per lesson. It includes activities on:* Air pollution* Water pollution* Land
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1st - 12th, Staff
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MS-ESS3-1
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Also included in: BUNDLE 2x 5week units - Human Impact + Reducing our Impact on the Earth
Nationalism, Unification & Imperialism Complete Unit for World History
This is a complete unit on the Age of Nationalism and Unification leading to Imperialism in the mid to late 1800s. This unit includes a daily plan, activities, notes, PowerPoint lectures, and other materials. It also includes a unit study guide and a matching short answer unit test. An alternate assignment with the movie, Avatar, is also included with viewing guide. Content Topics CoveredAvatar movieImperialism IntroductionImperialism Mapping and GeographyImperialism of AfricaNationalismUnif
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: World History SEMESTER 2 COMPLETE UNITS Everything for World Civ Bundle
¿Qué Tiempo Hace? Spanish Weather and Much More!
Spanish weather and so much more! This 12-page mini unit is a colorful introduction to weather expressions that includes practice with geography, map skills, charts, math, and science. In addition to all the usual vocabulary, reading, and writing, students will also learn about metric measures of temperature and precipitation, make conversions, and make comparisons between the northern and southern hemispheres.
I have included a very wide variety of activities to keep students interested, m
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7th - 12th
AP Government & Politics REVIEW BUNDLE! Study Guides & Vocabulary
AP U.S. GOVERNMENT + POLITICSEXAM STUDY GUIDE & VOCABULARYALL UNITS:Unit 1: Foundations of American DemocracyUnit 2: Interactions Among the BranchesUnit 3: Civil Rights and Civil LibertiesUnit 4: American Political Ideologies and BeliefsUnit 5: Political Participation FOR ALL UNITS:- Study Guides - Follows CED (Course Exam & Description)- includes details, summaries, definitions, examples- Essential Vocabulary from the unit- Answer Key included
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11th - 12th
True Crime Writing in the United States Unit (AP Language)
This unit looks at American history and culture through the lens of true crime narratives. The assignments and activities trace the roots of this genre of non-fiction from Puritan accounts of executions to 19th Century murder ballads to modern day serial killer stories while analyzing the changing intellectual landscape of the last 300 years. This unit asks student to explore questions of class, gender, race, and morality in relation to criminal behavior. As an AP Language unit, students practic
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
Native American Mythology Unit 1 week bundle Native American heritage & cultures
This Native American Mythology unit bundle includes a full week of activities to help students understand some of the key features of Native American Mythology and recognize the link between American Literature and American History. The end of the unit is a fantastic bridge between Native American myths and the literature of the earliest American settlers, which sets students up to better understand some of the conflicts that arose as settlers began to arrive from Europe.Use as Native American H
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8th - 12th
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César Chávez y Dolores Huerta 8-Day Unit for Heritage Speakers
This is an 8-day unit about César Chávez and Dolores Huerta.This resource is best for heritage speakers or advanced learners of Spanish.Included:Notes PDF & Google Slides VersionTimeline project instructions & materialsCésar Chávez & Dolores Huerta 40 question testExit SlipCésar Chávez quote letters for bulletin boardCésar Chávez movie quiz César Chávez Cloze Song Activity by Los tigres del norteLos braceros reading and questions packetCésar Chávez Timeline ProjectAnswer KeysTeacher
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8th - 12th
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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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