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My Place in the World Project: "Me on the Map" Geography for Kids
This hands-on geography project "My Place in the World" has kids create a visual representation of how we fit into the world. Teachers often use it with the kids' geography book "Me on the Map," by Joan Sweeney. Ideal for integrated Social Studies, ELA, Geography, Literacy, and Map Skills.Using a series of nesting circles to show the relative sizes of different geographic places, this simple but effective geography lesson helps kids sort out their relation to one another. This activity includes
Grades:
K - 5th
Also included in: Geography for Kids Bundle: Three Essential Hands-on Activities
Lunar New Year 2024 | Year of the DRAGON Reading Comprehension | Spring Festival
Chinese New Year in 2024 starts on Saturday, February 10th!It’s the Year of the DRAGON!Did you know that the Chinese believe that people born in the Year of the DRAGON are strong, tenacious, and ambitious? Do you know what the lucky colors and numbers are for people born during the Year of the DRAGON?Find out more by close-reading interesting text all about the Year of the DRAGON.Create a Cool DRAGON Collage, perfect for a 2024 Year of the DRAGON Bulletin Board!*** This resource has been updated
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4th - 7th
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32 Weeks of Listening Selections for Music Class (Grades K-5)
If you are turning to listening lessons with your students this is a must have! If you want to ensure your students are listening to a diverse set of composers and musicians, this set is for you. This spreadsheet has 32 weeks of selected musicians, composers and groups for Kindergarten - 5th grade (192 musicians/composers total) that represent a variety of cultures and genres. Includes name, the category they were selected for (although they may be long to more than one), country they were born
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K - 5th
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First Nations People in Early Canada, Six People Groups: Gr. 3 NEW BC Curriculum
Learn about the 6 different groups of early First Nations People in Canada according to their geographic location. Learn how the environment influenced food, home, community, travel, trade, government, traditions and celebrations. Graphic organizers help students to sort information visually and compare similarities and differences. A wide range of thinking activities are include throughout.Created for Grade 3 BC's NEW Curriculum.Contents Curricular and Content Competencies AddressedIntroduction
Grades:
2nd - 4th
3/D Tipi, Circle and Welcome Pole Craft, EASY Native American Art Fall Activity
This bundle includes 3 Native American themed craft projects made for students using circles (Mandela) cones (3/D tipi), and cylinders (welcome poles) These crafts are a great way to integrate the arts with your Native American curriculum. This is three of my students favorites put together in a money saving bundle! See descriptions for each project, and check out the teacher reviews of individual items! Crafts include a 3/D tipi, mandella, and 3/D welcome pole. Great for Bulletin boards, door
Grades:
1st - 7th
Generations of Music (20th/21st Century American Pop Music and Culture)
This is a full 10-week (give or take) curriculum that will bring your students from the turn of the 20th Century to present day, giving them a chance to teach you about their own generation at the end of the unit. This slideshow includes about 240 slides with generations (Lost Generation, Greatest Generation, Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z, and Gen Alpha) and includes major events impacting America, culture and trends of the periods, music videos, articles, info on m
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Music Cultures of the World Unit & Supplemental Materials Mega BUNDLE
Explore music around the world from inside your music classroom. Introduce your students to authentic instruments and musical styles from all around the world! This bundle of extremely flexible products can be used in many different classrooms and situations. View each product preview and description to learn more!These resources are perfect for:✅ Middle School General Music✅ Elementary General Music✅ High School General Music and/or Music AppreciationWhat’s Included With Your Download:✅Music
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2nd - 12th
First Nations in Early Canada, Activities Book: Indigenous People, Grade 3
Engaging activities on First Nations in Early Canada include: read, complete graphic organizers, play with words, critical thinking, crosswords, word search PLUS more. This book of activities was created as a companion to "Early First Nations People of Canada". Use for "fast finishers". The booklet may also stand alone. Grade 3 Social Studies curriculum. Great for differentiated learning. Answer keys provided.Activities Include:examine and interpret tipi designscritical thinking exercise on the
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Games Around the World
Connect children to their peers around the world through versions of traditional games like tag, hopscotch, tic-tac-toe, and dominoes. This fun and engaging product includes 35 games from 23 different countries* for students to explore and compare all year long. Each game card includes clear instructions to prepare and play the game, its country of origin, and printables when necessary.Also included...a world map for locating the country of the game they will be playinga summary list for the ma
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1st - 4th
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CNN 10 Guided Worksheet
Use this worksheet in conjunction with CNN 10. https://www.cnn.com/cnn10What is CNN 10?Explaining global news to a global audience: This is the mission of CNN 10, a new, 10-minute news show that appears as a daily digital video on CNN.com. CNN 10 replaces CNN Student News, the network's longest-running show that first aired in 1989. CNN 10 more effectively serves a growing audience interested in compact on-demand news broadcastst ideal for explanation seekers on the go or in the classroom. The s
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Not Grade Specific
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Picasso Pumpkins: Hispanic Heritage Month, EASY Fall or Halloween Craft Cut&Glue
A fun Fall art activity for Hispanic Heritage Month. Learn about Spains most famous artist while creating a cubist style pumpkin in the likeness of Picasso’s famous paintings. Several pumpkin images and sizes are included for student choice, including one created after Picasso's "Girl in the Mirror" painting. There are 2 pages of facial features drawn from Picasso’s most popular paintings including “Skull with Leeks. Students of all ages and abilities will have fun mixing up the face features
Grades:
K - 6th
Not your typical Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month Presentation (English version)
This is not your typical presentation for the Latinx/Hispanisc Heritage Month or biography bundle. Although you can complement those fact sheets and bio bundles with this presentation. This presentation was created with an ABAR/decolonial lens, students and teachers are invited to engage in a critical thinking process and discussions about identity markers, misconceptions and white-washed tokenizing narratives of the celebration. This presentation was created with comprehension in mind so it's v
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Not Grade Specific
Morning Meeting Sharing Questions- 200 Fun Discussion Questions
Do you participate in morning meetings? Do you ever get to the sharing time and find yourself asking the same types of questions or simply having trouble thinking of new questions to promote a safe and fun classroom community? This download contains 180 unique morning meeting sharing questions--one for each day of the school year. It is a great addition to any morning meeting space. You can choose to print out the master copy of the questions if you have a way of organizing the questions on your
Grades:
K - 5th
Also included in: Morning Meeting BUNDLE: Greetings, Sharing Questions, and Activities
Culturally Responsive Morning Meeting Slides | Morning Meeting Activities
A picture is worth 1,000 words therefore use powerful pictures to have powerful morning meeting discussions with these morning meetings slides. Compatible with Google Slides, Google Classroom and Seesaw. This powerpoint contains over 90 pictures with prompts to discuss with your students. Now includes pandemic pictures to engage students in the conversation about living in a pandemic. A Whole Year of picture prompts! Watch video to see the entire presentation:Culturally Responsive Morning Meetin
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PreK - 1st
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Middle School African Drumming - FULL Year of Plans with Instrumental Tracks
Prepping for back to school? Engage every music student in the rich sounds of African drumming! From the djembe to the tubano and shakers, your students will explore the rhythms of the sub-Saharan continent. The bundle also provides students with a touch of African history and how the culture uses drumming and music to communicate emotion. This 37-chart African Drumming package offers a comprehensive collection of rhythm charts that will last you for an entire school year. These are appropriate
Grades:
4th - 7th
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Also included in: Music Around the World Bundle - Activities | Drumming | Sub Plans
Stevie Wonder Music Study: Activities and Worksheets
Unlike any other product on TPT, this pack contains everything you need to teach your students about the wonderful Stevie Wonder. This pack contains worksheets and fun activities which will give children the motivation and encouragement to form their own opinions on this particular genre and style of music. It also contains a teacher's guide to assist you during your lessons.Included:Biography: a short snapshot of Wonder’s life, his greatest hits, explaining his genre and some interesting facts
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
Also included in: Music Study Bundle
Grandparents Day Lyrics Bundle: "All About That Bass", "Call Me Maybe" & "Happy"
This is a bundle of my three Grandparents Day Songs.It contains lyrics to a Grandparents Day Song to the tune of "Call Me Maybe" and another to the tune of "All About That Bass"I used each of these songs for Grandparents Day performances by my kindergarten class. I downloaded the karaoke versions of the songs so the kids could sing along to the music using these lyrics. After a little practice, my kinders were able to catch on pretty easily - and the songs came out super cute and funny. Everyon
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PreK - 6th
Fall Crafts Picasso Style: Pumpkin, Turkey, Portraits. Thanksgiving Art Bundle
This Fall or Autumn, Thanksgiving and Halloween craft collage bundle is a student and parent favorite! Each lesson contains a variety of student choices, resulting in amazing unique student Art. I tested them with students in Kindergarten through 5th grade with amazing results. My grade 5 students were especially engaged when I challenged them to invent new ways of using patterns and colors like Picasso did in his “Blue and Rose” period’s. Lessons take students 2 to 3 art classes to finish, depe
Grades:
K - 6th
Music of Japan Teaching Bundle - Complete Japanese World Music Unit
A FUN musical package complete with Japanese songs, activities, games, videos and cultural facts. Teaching your kids about Japanese music and the Japanese culture? This Music of Japan Teaching Bundle is all you need! In this fun lesson package, students will learn about Japanese music and culture through the traditional folk songs, musical games, ensemble activities and more! Bring world music into your classroom!As the author of this package, I have had the chance to live and work in Japan for
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3rd - 6th
Brief History of the Pinata / Breve Historia de la Pinata
Immersion Island presents a short history of the pinata in English and Spanish. Good for upper elementary, middle school or high school as well as native Spanish speakers / Spanish heritage language learners. Use for Christmas, Navidad, Las Posadas, Latin American celebrations, Mexico celebrations and more. typical song included. Immersion Island les presenta una historia breve de la pinata en espanol e ingles. Celebraciones navidenas, las posadas informacion sobre la pinata tradicional d
Grades:
4th - 12th
Music History: Timeline, Composers, and World Events
Includes Baroque Period-Modern Day. Each era has a time line of World Events, a brief description of what society and culture was like during that time, and a featured composers' biography list with 5-6 highlighted big-picture facts for each composer.
This could be used as a quick overview, a review, or as a starting point to a more in-depth composer research project. Students could review the highlights before selecting a composer to research.
Composers featured: Bach, Handel, Vivaldi,
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Grades:
6th - 10th
Beyoncé Music Study: Activities and Worksheets
Unlike any other product on TPT, this pack contains everything you need to teach your students about R and B superstar Beyoncé. This pack contains worksheets and fun activities which will give children the motivation and encouragement to form their own opinions on this particular genre and style of music. It also contains a teacher's guide to assist you during your lessons.Included:Biography: a short snapshot of Beyoncé’s life, her greatest hits, explaining her genre and some interesting facts!
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
Also included in: Music Study Bundle
Caribbean Heritage Month: Jamaica Music Virtual Field Trip + Reggae Music
Looking for a fun digital experience to learn about Jamaican music, culture, instruments, singers, and more? This is the perfect resource for you or your students to do so! In this Google Slides activity, you and your students will learn about Jamaica's wonderful music, listen to it, practice it and play it. This product contains: About Jamaica slidesTraditional Jamaican music slidesInstruments videos, facts, and rhythms to practiceAbout Bob MarleyAll about Reggae music: singers, instruments, ch
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Grades:
1st - 6th
K-2 Social & Racial Justice Morning Meeting Slides-Anti Bias Education-ABAR
UPDATE: GOOGLE SLIDES FORMAT NOW AVAILABLE 10/15/20Teaching Tolerance’s Social Justice Standards is a road map for anti-bias education at every grade level. These particular slides were developed for K-2 classrooms. **Grades 3-5 Available!**Grades 6-8 Available!The purpose of these slides is to engage our students in deep and meaningful conversations that go beyond the basic "my favorite color is...". They are meant to elicit dialogue about inequalities and equity. What does that look like? How
Grades:
K - 2nd
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