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Preschool social studies unit plan pdfs
Wants and Needs Wants & Needs Kindergarten and First Grade Social Studies
Wants and Needs Wants & Needs Kindergarten and First Grade Social Studies⭐Do you WANT it? Do you NEED it? Covering the topic of WANTS AND NEEDS with your Kinders or First Graders has never been easier. This engaging and ready-to-use WANTS AND NEEDS file is going to be a HUGE time saver for you. Snag this 30-page pack to get charts, pocket chart activities, writing prompts, and printables all about wants & needs.⭐This unit is a week's worth of wants and needs learning activities that cove
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: Social Studies Bundle for Kindergarten and First Grade Printables
Community Workers Unit for Special Education
Elevate your community workers lessons with this comprehensive unit, specially designed for special education teachers and parents of autistic students. Packed with engaging games, printables, flashcards, and an adapted book, this resource covers a range of learning styles. The set includes 12 flashcards with definitions, a 12-page adapted book, 9 matching worksheets, 8 writing worksheets, 7 creative writing worksheets, 12 coloring/following direction worksheets, an 'I Have, Who Has?' game, and
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PreK - 5th
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Economy Unit for Special Education
Explore the basics of the economy with this comprehensive unit tailored for special education teachers and parents of autistic students. Packed with engaging games, printables, flashcards, and an adapted book, this functional social studies theme facilitates academic learning about life skills. Designed for differentiation across diverse learning styles, the unit includes flashcards with definitions, an adapted book ('Why is Money Important?'), matching worksheets, information sheets, writing ex
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PreK - 5th
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Recycling Unit for Special Education
Explore the importance of recycling with this comprehensive unit designed for special education teachers and parents of autistic students. Packed with engaging activities, games, printables, and an adapted book, this resource seamlessly integrates academic and functional themes into the classroom curriculum. The unit covers a range of materials, including flashcards with definitions, an 'Ready to Recycle' adapted book, matching and writing worksheets, creative writing activities, sorting exercis
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PreK - 5th
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Community Signs Mega Pack for Special Education
Enhance your students' understanding of common community signs with this comprehensive unit designed for special education and parents of autistic students. Packed with engaging games, printables, flashcards, and an adapted book (What Should I Do?), the resource covers a range of activities to reinforce sign recognition skills. The toolkit includes flashcards with definitions, a multiple-choice adapted book, a card game for identifying signs based on clues, file folder activities for matching si
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PreK - 5th
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Geography Adapted Books for Special Education
Simple Social Studies: Geography Adapted Books for Special EducationThese Adapted Books are designed to directly teach basic Geography Skills to students in Special Education. Each book can be used to help students practice and generalize these important skills! WHAT TOPICS ARE INCLUDED?Our ContinentsLandformsBiomesMap SymbolsHOW DO YOU USE IT IN THE CLASSROOM? Introduce new topicsIndependent WorkReview Mastered TopicsHOW DO STUDENTS USE THEM? Use the matching pictures for non writersUse matchin
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PreK - 12th
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Also included in: Geography Curriculum Bundle for Special Education
Ruby Bridges
These Ruby Bridges Activities are designed for younger students. Your students will love learning about Ruby Bridges and her first day in an integrated school. The simple reader, write and draw activities, and cut and paste activities will be perfect to teach your young students about Ruby Bridges during Black History Month.You may be interested in this money saving bundle:Black History BundleYou may also be interested in this: Rosa Parks Please check out the preview to see what is included.
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: Black History Month Activities
Continents and Oceans Unit for Special Education
Geography unit on continents and oceans for students with autism or special needs. This unit consists of differentiated resources and activities for students at various levels.
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Continents posters
Continents adapted book
Continents comprehension questions (3 levels)
Continents matching (2 levels)
Continents writing practice
Continents cut and paste
Continents matching game
Continents map coloring page
Oceans posters
Oceans adapted book
Oceans comprehension questions (3 levels)
Oceans
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PreK - 5th
Johnny Appleseed Paper Bag Puppet
Johnny Appleseed Paper Bag Puppet
Celebrate Johnny Appleseed with this Great Puppet.
Johnny Appleseed Day is March 11. Johnny Appleseed's Birthday is Sept. 26. This puppet can be used to role play Johnny Appleseed's story.
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PreK - 3rd
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Alike and Different Culture for Kindergarten
This is a great little set of resources for a kindergarten unit that is all about being alike and different. I wrote it to better understand what I needed to teach in social studies and to better help my kinders understand each other. **You will need to pull picture books from your library or classroom to assist you in teaching the main objectives of this unit and the activities should go with most any books you choose that are about culture, self, and place in the world. Activities included: s
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PreK - 1st
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Jackie Robinson
These Jackie Robinson Activities are designed for younger students. Your students will love learning about Jackie Robinson and his impact on baseball. The simple reader, write and draw activities, and cut and paste activities will be perfect to teach your young students about Jackie Robinson during Black History Month.You may be interested in this money saving bundle:Black History BundleYou may also be interested in this: Rosa Parks Please check out the preview to see what is included. You w
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: Black History Month Activities
Constitution and Founding Fathers Unit for Autism and Special Education
This product is to be used to teach basic concepts of the Constitution and the Founding Fathers. It is made for children with autism or special needs. The activities are differentiated and can be used in various ways to meet the needs of a diverse group of learners. Included:-Constitution vocabulary cards and matching cards-Constitution adapted book-Constitution vocabulary matching worksheets-Constitution adapted book comprehension questions-Constitution bingo game-Founding Fathers posters-Found
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PreK - 5th
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Landforms Unit for Kindergarten and 1st Grade Week
Are you looking for an engaging way to get your students to learn about landforms? I have you covered with a week of lesson plans, posters, and activities! These are Print and Go materials designed with Kindergarten and first graders in mind!
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If you alread bought my Geography Kindergarten and 1st Grade - ME ON THE MAP BOOK - 9 WEEKS, then you already have this unit.
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⭐What is in this download?⭐
Pg. 1 Cover
Pg. 2 Table of Contents
Pg. 3 Informat
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PreK - 1st
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Rules- Laws Unit for Special Education
This is a rules and laws unit focusing on school, home, and the community. Each category includes:
- An interactive book with extra pictures to use for matching
- 2 levels of matching worksheets (picture to picture and picture to word)
- 2 levels of Bingo (picture and word, just phrases)
- 2 levels of file folder games (picture to picture, picture to phrase)
Rules/Laws included:
School- sit nicely, be kind, walk, listen, nice hands, look, quiet voice, nice feet
Home- feed pets, clean dishes,
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PreK - 5th
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Let's Go Around the World! {a whole year of social studies}
This is the ultimate trip around the world for you and your students. In this mega-225-page resource, you will find the means to teach (and learn) about traditions and holidays in 20 different countries/regions around the world. Teacher fact sheets, printables, craftivities, games, and more are all ready for you. Also included are passport templates so your students can reflect on every place they have "travelled" to! Your students are going to love this journey....and so will you!!! There is at
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PreK - 2nd
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Careers & Community Helpers - A Kindergarten Social Studies Unit
This is a social studies unit that could be used with kindergarten or 1st grade students. This unit focuses on learning about different careers in our community. This unit contains 13 cut and paste worksheets with simple sentences for students to read and a picture to color, 13 writing worksheets that help students write topic and detail sentences about a job, images to use as puppets, graphing worksheet, 13 webs about different jobs, 13 are-can-have charts, pages for a class book, and more!! In
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PreK - 1st
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A New Life: A Unit on Immigration
This is a unit filled with worksheets, vocabulary, articles, games, and activities on immigration. It does not have lesson plans, but is a supplement to any lessons that involve immigration or lesson plans could be created to go with the activities. It also contains a simulation and end-of-unit test on immigration.
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PreK - 5th
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Maps, Globes, and Landforms
A ton of printable activities and resources for your social studies units on maps, globes, and landforms! These activities can be used in many different ways!Included in this product:-Map & Globe mini anchor charts (color and black and white)-Identifying maps and globes printable-“This is a map of my _____” template for students to draw a map of something. (2 template options)-Map and Globe Flip Book-Map Flip Book- Map and Globe Emergent Reader-20 Landform cards: beach, canal, canyon, cave,
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PreK - 1st
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BRAZIL South America Activity e-Book: Hands-on Activities & Printables!
Learn about the country of Brazil by identifying major landmarks, cities and other geographical locations. Create a detailed 3D paper model of Christ the Redeemer, the iconic statute that watches over Rio de Janeiro and learn about other major landmarks throughout the country through full color flashcards and maps. Review the major points of native and colonial history in Brazil and how these events have shaped this country. Discover the tribes of the Amazon and create indigenous hats, hammocks
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PreK - 8th
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Around the World: Kindergarten Unit: Italy
Little ones will learn about Italy - pizza, volcanoes, Galileo, Michelangelo, counting in Italian and the Italian flag. This product has math centers, literacy centers, read alouds, crafts and even a science experiment.
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Math:Shape Pizza
Use the recipe to make a shape pizza. (No actual cooking)
Count in Italian
A booklet that teaches students to count in Italian.
Pepperoni on a Pizza
Students put the pepperoni on the pizza to correlate with the number on the pizza
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PreK - 1st
Also included in: Country-A-Month Growing Bundle - Complete
Kindergarten Unit: India
Students learn about Diwali, the Jungle Book, henna tattoos, the Himalayas, sacred cow, the Taj Mahal and Gandhi. Students also learn an overview of India through a little booklet and how to count in Hindi with this no-prep fold-able book.
Students learn about these activities through read-alouds, literacy centers, math centers and follow-up activities, games, crafts and more.
This unit was made with kindergartners in mind but can be used in both a Pre-K classroom and a 1st grade classroom
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PreK - 1st
Also included in: Country-A-Month Growing Bundle - Complete
Social Studies Kindergarten Vocab Cards-Passport Geography, People, &Environment
Social Studies Kindergarten Vocabulary Word Wall Cards with definitions with visual pictures!This resource contains 38 vocabulary words from the Kindergarten Passport Program, Unit 3: Geography, People, and the EnvironmentVocabulary words included:communityneighborhoodresidentsneighborsuburban communityrural communityurban communityrulesroutinescommunity helpergoodsservicesarchitecturehistorylandmarkrespectcontinenttransportationcompass roselegend (key)oceanboroughlocationnorthsoutheastwestleftr
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PreK - 2nd
Special Education Veteran's Day Unit: One Week of Activities for SPED, Pre-k, K
Adapted Veteran's Day UnitThis special education, Veteran's Day, adapted social studies unit explains what Veteran's Day is, how we can celebrate it, and gives a definition of each branch of the military. Also included in this print-and-go bundle is a lesson plan for the week. Students will end this unit with a better understanding of our military and Veterans Day. There are two levels included in this unit. Visuals are paired with text throughout the activities. This unit can be used for specia
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PreK - 10th
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Also included in: Special Education Bundle of Holiday Units- Seasonal Activities- No PREP
Around the World: Kindergarten Unit: Kenya
This product is perfect to learn about safari animals and Kenyan culture - including African drumming, a folk tale, about the Masai people and more. This product includes:
- read alouds
- math center
- literacy centers
- crafts
- dramatic play
- gross motor skills
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PreK - 1st
Also included in: Country-A-Month Growing Bundle - Complete
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