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7th grade social studies unit plans for Microsoft Word
Spanish-American War - America Becomes a World Power Unit BUNDLE
Increase student growth and engagement while saving time, energy and money! This bundle has everything you need and more! It is perfect for textbook free classrooms. Just print and go! Specific product descriptions can be found at the links below:Spanish-American War Reading Passage with Response WorksheetAmerica Becomes a World Power Reading Passage with Response WorksheetSpanish-American War/American Imperialism PowerPoint with Guided Notes OutlineSpanish-American War Stations ActivitySpanish-
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5th - 9th
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The Arrival by Shaun Tan -- 100+ Page Unit and Teacher's Guide GATE
Yes, we can teach reading, writing, speaking and listening, and critical thinking skills using this amazing graphic novel which has no “words!” It’s a journey about who we are, where we have come from, and the humanity we share. It’s about hope and love and understanding. At times powerful, at times breathtakingly beautiful . . . Shaun Tan’s The Arrival should be on every bookshelf in every classroom.This 100+ page teaching guide and unit has been developed over the past three years in my adv
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5th - 12th
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Stock Market Unit Plan
Two week unit!
Day 1-
Have a discussion on how people can make their money grow. Introduce vocab for unit. Hand out Stock Market passage and answer questions about reading.
Day 2- 3
Vocab matching sheet quiz. Discuss dangers of investing in stocks. Hand out Danger in Stocks handout and answer questions.
Discuss stock symbols. Have students search symbols for 4 teacher chosen stocks and check progress of the stocks together across the week. Tell students they have $1000 to invest. They will
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3rd - 10th
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Great Depression - New Deal UNIT BUNDLE (Print and Digital Formats)
Increase student growth and engagement while saving time, energy, and money! This bundle has everything you need and more! The resources are available in PDF and Google Docs formats! It is perfect for textbook free classrooms or for distance learning. Just print and go or use the digital format to reach your learners virtually!
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6th - 10th
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STEM Kid Engineering for GATE -- FERRIS WHEELS plus Primary Sources
In this GATE engineering journey, students will each construct a very cool Ferris wheel prototype as a final product. Along the way, they will examine primary source images, read primary source history, and integrate math, engineering, and economics in a learning process which incorporates best practices in gifted and talented education for 21st Century Learners.
This is a challenging engineering project—teacher guided. I used it for GATE 4th grade; however, my kids are experienced builders.
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
Geography of North America: United States and Canada Unit Bundle
This bundle covers the physical and human geography of North America, focusing on the United States and Canada. The resource includes many worksheets and activities that can be completed digitally or on paper, a Google Slides presentation, guided notes, an instructor's copy of the guided notes, a review sheet, and a test. This resource will help your students learn about the geography of the United States and Canada, from history and geography to culture, economy, and current issues.★☆★Here is a
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7th - 10th
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Americas Unit Bundle - Aztec, Olmec, Maya, Inca, Inuit, Iroquois, & More!
This unit covers the migration theories and goes over the major pre-Colombian Civilizations. There is a 125 slide PowerPoint with a corresponding note sheet (one filled in and the other with fill-in-the-blanks). There are three projects (a timeline, creative project, or small group presentation project), a test with study guide and jeopardy review game, and a folder of supplemental materials. These materials include quick reads (1 page readings) on the Olmec, Maya Aztec, Aztec poetry, and the
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7th - 12th
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SHARK TANK Economics Pitches Prototypes PROJECT BASED PBL GATE
Welcome to the shark tank project-based learning unit. Let’s begin our entrepreneurial careers today!
Build critical thinking skills, public speaking success, and bring creativity, language arts, and economics into your classroom in a purposeful and authentic way.
Students will work in collaborative teams to solve a complex, ongoing, inquiry-based problem with a physical product for an authentic audience:
• Brainstorm a product, citing a need that will be fulfilled.
• Construct a prototyp
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Creativity Bundle for GATE Gifted and Talented and ALL
Introduction to World Geography Unit Bundle
This bundle is an excellent resource for a complete Introduction to Geography Unit. It includes both digital and print resources and addresses both physical and human geography. There are multiple activities and worksheets, along with Google Slides Presentations, guided notes, reviews, and tests. ☀This Unit Bundle Includes the following Instructional/Assessment Resources☀• The Basics of Human Geography Presentation, Guided Notes, & Test• The Basics of World Geography: Presentation, Guided No
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7th - 10th
US History - Full Curriculum - Google Drive Link (English and Spanish)
Hello everyone! In this purchase, you will download a Word Document file that has a Google Drive link to all of my US history materials. The full curriculum is based on content from the 1600s to modern day, in English and Spanish. This is an ENL modified curriculum, with a single link to a Google Drive.The drive includes all of my files as Google Docs, Google Slides, and the original downloadable Word Docs/PowerPoint files.The drive includes every lesson, every essay, and every test for a US his
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6th - 12th
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Year 7 Civics & Citizenship - Complete Unit
Everything you need for 10 weeks of Civics & Citizenship!Weeks 1-3: Diversity & IdentityWeeks 4-7: Government & DemocracyWeeks 8-10: Citizens & LawsEach product includes:1. PowerPoint presentation (>18 slides)2. Follow-along workbook (>15 pages)3. Daily vocabulary worksheets (9 pages+ 9 answer keys)4. Unit plan with curriculum links, instructions, and suggested assessment tasks.The Civics & Citizenship Curriculum is full of subject specific vocabulary. This unit is buil
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Road Trip Adventure PROJECT BASED LEARNING for GATE and 3rd - 8th Grades
Come along on a fun project-based adventure as students practice different forms of writing, geography skills, computer and internet technology skills, engineering and design skills, math skills, public speaking, creativity, and art.
Here is your Gold Medal Standard project based learning unit ready to go. Because this project-based unit relies heavily on student creativity and invention, the key knowledge, understanding, and success skills can be scaffolded across many grade levels. This un
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted
Carnival Game Economics PBL Project-Based Learning GATE
Smaller tasks add up to big, big learning with this gold medal standard project-based learning activity! What a sneaky cool way to learn math, economics, and functional design! (Insert evil teacher laugh.) It’s a hands-on approach to Common Core Standards.
In Carnival Game Economics, students design a carnival skill game and gather data as junior market researchers during the test phase. They’ll use this data to help make decisions. After making calculations for probability, students will
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Gifted and Talented SURVIVAL KIT Bundle -- 235 pages, big discount!
Entrepreneur Project- DIY: Open for Business
Entrepreneur Project- DIY (Do It Yourself) Open for Business: is multi-step, long term economics project for students of all abilities and varied grade levels to learn how to form a small business and become young entrepreneurs.
Students of all ages are very aware of the hard economic times that many are experiencing in the country, in their neighborhoods and even in their own homes.
This project allows students to see that with creativity, ingenuity, organization, hard work, dedication, m
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Grades:
2nd - 12th
Chasing King's Killer by James Swanson Unit Plan
This is a Unit Plan for Chasing King's Killer by James L. Swanson. It contains Standards (CCSS), Objectives, Daily Activities, Over 50 Chapter Questions, Vocabulary with Definitions, Vocabulary Frayer Models, Over 50 Multiple Choice Questions Divided by Section for Quizzes, Essay Questions, and Answer Keys.
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4th - 10th
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T-Shirt Entrepreneurs PROJECT BASED LEARNING Math Economics GATE 4-8th
Your students will be excited for this “gold medal standard” project-based math, design, and economics activity. It’s appropriate and adaptable for 4th – 8th grade. It has been a staple for my 4th grade gifted and talented math group since 2013.You won’t be the sage on the stage. Students will problem-solve their way through the project working in collaborative teams, and the teacher will guide, be a resource, spur discussion, play devil’s advocate, and provide mini lessons when necessary.In
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class BUNDLE - Math Focus Hours of Hands-on Projects GATE Gifted
STEAMy GATE 4th 5th 6th PYRAMIDS Unit
Very STEAMy with reading and writing, too! This unit is loaded with higher order thinking tasks, variety across the curriculum, creative responses, and hands-on learning through building and design. It’s the same sort of stuff you’re used to seeing here, and your kids will love it!
• Level—4th through 6th grade GATE
• Time—about 15 hours
• Materials—start saving cardboard!
Craft sticks and tape or low temp hot glue. Otherwise, common classroom materials.
You’ll get explanations, teacher
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4th - 7th
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Novel Questions, Final Test, Answer Key
First of all, have you read this book? If you haven't, you should! I just finished reading it with my students, and it is an amazing historical fiction novel! I created short answer, multiple choice, and true/false questions for each chapter to check for comprehension, spark conversations, and to be used as check-in quizzes and study guides as we read the book. Answer keys are included for everything!
You can use what is included in many ways to work with your curriculum and/or specific group
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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World History SEMESTER 2 COMPLETE UNITS Everything for World Civ Bundle
This World History or World Civilizations Complete Semester Two Package contains everything you need to create an interactive classroom while still engaging your students with content-strong resources!This package includes everything you need for the second semester of World History Civilizations from the Scientific Revolution to the Modern Era. It includes Walking Tours, Response Group Resources, interactive lecture powerpoints, interactive assignments, cooperative activities, internet activiti
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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6.1 Present Day Eastern Hemisphere Geography and Culture Unit Guide
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Present Day Eastern Hemisphere Geography and Culture Unit Guide
This document is a full unit plan for introducing Present Day Eastern Hemisphere Geography and Culture, and is designed to meet Common Core and NYS SS Framework guidelines, while incorporating CC ELA skills. Embedded in my unit plan is also an Inquiry Design Model that was inspired by C3 (College, Career, and Civic Li
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5th - 10th
2nd Industrial Revolution Unit | 10-Day Bundle: Lessons, Review Activity, Test
*TO SEE ALL CONTENT SLIDES FOR EACH LESSON, CHECK OUT THE INDIVIDUAL LESSON PREVIEWS*This two-week (10-day) unit covers the major causes and events occurring in the United States during the Second Industrial Revolution, also known as the Gilded Age. The emphasis of this unit is primarily on the economic changes the country went through during this time period. Days 1-8 consist of individual one-day lessons, Day 9 consists of a unit review, and Day 10 consists of a unit test. For the complete lis
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7th - 12th
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Black History Month Lesson Plan Bundle | 10 Days: Lesson Plans, Notes, Quizzes
Celebrate African American culture and heritage with this 10-day Black History Month lesson plan bundle. Consisting of 10 daily lessons, this content-rich bundle covers notable figures and historical events in Black history from the early 1900s to the 1970s and is an excellent addition to an African American studies curriculum. Your students will learn about contributions and achievements by prominent African Americans, major events impacting Black communities, Black involvement in both World W
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7th - 12th
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Manitoba Report Card Comments: Grade 7 Social (full paragraph copy/paste)
You will find a high, medium and low report card comment for all Grade 7 Social Studies Clusters/Outcomes. You will also see a high, medium and low comment for each of the the Social Studies Skills (straight from curriculum). Headings include: Skills for Active Democratic Citizenship; Skills for Managing Information & Ideas; Critical and Creative Thinking Skills and Communication Skills.These are easy to use and ready to copy & paste into your reports. Of course you will adjust the comme
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7th
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World Medieval History | Yearlong Course 6 Complete Units | Middle School
Complete yearlong course for Middle School students including Google Drive folders for 6 units: Rome, China, Japan, Islamic Empire, West African Kingdoms, American Civilizations (Aztecs, Mayans and Incas). This course is designed for the 7th grade history standards in the state of California, though its content is appropriate for older students and other courses. Includes 57 student activities such as readings, primary and secondary source inquiries, writing materials for history essays, and uni
Grades:
6th - 8th
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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.
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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.
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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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