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6th grade End of Year social studies games
5th Grade Math Review Game Show 5th Grade Math Test Prep End of Year Math Review
This fun, interactive 5th grade Jeopardy style end of year math game will have your students begging for more activities just like it! Get ready for a fun 5th grade math review with the exciting, easy to use Math Mania Game Show. Perfect for 5th grade math test prep and last week activities!Click HERE to save 35% with the 5th Grade Math Mania Game Show Bundle for the Year!Click HERE for the End of 4th Grade Math Review Game.Please click on the PREVIEW button above to see how the game works!***
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Also included in: 5th Grade Math Review Game Show Bundle | Math Activities
5th Grade ELA Review Game Show 5th Grade Reading Test Prep End of Year ELA
This fun, interactive 5th grade Jeopardy style ELA review game will have your students begging for more activities just like it! Get ready for 5th grade reading test prep and even STAAR review with the exciting, easy to use Razzle Dazzle Reading Game Show.Please click on the PREVIEW button above to see how the game works!Click HERE for the 3rd Grade ELA Review Game.Click HERE for the 4th Grade ELA Review Game.See ALL the Jeopardy-Style Review Games HERE.This ELA review activity is super fun and
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4th - 6th
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End of Year Activities Jeopardy Style Game Show -2nd-6th Grade Distance Learning
End of the School Year Jeopardy style game show! Want to have some FUN on those last few days of school? Here is a suggestion: a GAME SHOW!! Five fun categories that will get your kids laughing, thinking, and up out of their chairs for a really good time. Make sure you have your camera ready! This download INCLUDES a copy for Google Classroom! Great for Distance Learning. The GC version does not include scoring and the point values do not disappear...this is just a limitation of Google Sl
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2nd - 6th
5th Grade Math End of the Year Digital Escape Room Activity Fun Math Review
When your fifth graders find themselves stuck in a time warp, can they use their math skills to break out and save summer vacation? In this fun year end digital escape room, your 5th grade students are tasked with activating a time machine so that the school year can end. They will solve clues to wire up a transmitter by adding fractions, build a landing zone by multiplying fractions, power up a generator by converting measurements, and much more. This activity is great to use in small groups in
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4th - 6th
"Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?" Fun Trivia PowerPoint Game
MY MOST POPULAR PRODUCT! - This animated POWERPOINT and Fun Trivia Game includes over 150 questions and 14 rounds of questions. All of the answers are included too! This is a great game to play at the end of the year or around the holidays. If you use all of the questions it would take OVER AN HOUR to play, but you don't have to use all of the questions. (This is a great download if you need a fun, educational game to play on a Friday, at the end of the day, or a day your lesson plan finishe
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3rd - 12th, Staff
Ancient Egypt Hieroglyphics Escape Room Activity | Engaging Crack the Code Game
In this Ancient Egypt Escape Room activity, students are introduced to ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and are placed in the shoes of investigators as they seek to crack a mysterious code left behind by the ancient Egyptians. Student investigative teams have one class period to solve four clues, each written in hieroglyphics, then complete the final formula to crack the code. Students only have a set number of attempts to open the lock before the ancient lock deteriorates and remains jammed for
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5th - 9th
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End of the Year Break Activities - Digital Resource Mystery Game - Team Building
Are you ready to watch reading comprehension skills skyrocket before the end of the year break?! Great for team building! Students will work together to solve the mystery AND practice a variety of academic skills including; inferencing, critical thinking, problem solving, reading comprehension, and much more! The material is so fun and engaging, students won't even know they are actually learning! This activity can be used anytime of year and is a fantastic way to get students excited about l
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3rd - 6th
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Save the Summer ELA Escape Room | Test Prep | End of Year Review
This end of the year ELA review escape room challenge is the perfect way to engage your students during the last few months of school, while still teaching the standards! This escape room is part of the Holiday Escape Room Bundle. Save $$ and time planning holiday celebrations by buying the holiday bundle today! Click HERE to check it out. This escape room uses Google Forms and Google Slides. Students drag and drop moveable pieces and type in pre-made text boxes in Google Slides for an interact
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4th - 6th
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Latitude and Longitude Battleship Game - Map Skills Geography Activities
Help your students practice their latitude and longitude skills in a fun and engaging way using this no-prep latitude and longitude battleship game! The directions are included right on the template, so this is a no prep activity that comes ready to play. I've also provided PowerPoint directions so you can show students how to play as a class. Students will become well-practiced with using a grid and making sure they always give latitude coordinates first. I've used this every year and my studen
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Latitude and Longitude Practice Puzzle Review Activities Bundle
Team Building Escape Room with Logic Puzzles Critical Thinking Escape Room
Engage your students with this Team Building Escape Room! This is great as a back to school escape room! This escape room is perfect for both the end of the year and beginning of the year. Students will be engaged and challenged with logic puzzles, codes to decipher, and more. There is both a full easy prep printable version as well as a Google(TM) form digital version for virtual or distance learning.This resource includes everything you need to implement a challenging and fun escape room fo
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4th - 9th
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End of the Year Activity Mystery Game for the Whole Class
The end of the year is the perfect time to pull out this mystery activity game. Students use the detective skills of listening and the process of elimination to solve the mystery of who took the test. Perfect whole class game, let the fun begin. This is the perfect time filler for the end of the year.Pull Out this Mystery Game anytime and have some fun. Great way to wrap up a mystery unit. Use this fun Holiday Party game to engage the whole class. This activity is great for keeping the class on
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Mystery Game BUNDLE Halloween December Valentine End of the Year
6th Grade End of the Year Math Activity Digital Escape Room Fun Math Review Game
When your sixth graders find themselves stuck in a time warp, can they use their math skills to break out and save summer vacation? In this fun year end digital escape room, your 6th grade students are tasked with activating a time machine so that the school year can end and they can escape school! They will solve clues to wire up a transmitter by combining like terms with distribution to create equivalent expression, build a landing zone by finding the area of a composite shape, power up a gene
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5th - 7th
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The Great Depression: A Saving and Spending Game
Students work together in small groups to make decisions about how to save or spend their money during the Great Depression. They will see what it is like to have a well-paying job and then lose most of their money in the stock market crash of 1929. They will have to find a new job, a place to live (hobo camp or boxcar), and figure out how to provide for their family with very little.Students will have to subtract their bills from their total amount of money using a spending ledger (provided).
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4th - 8th
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How Well Do You Know Your Teacher? (Fun End of Year Activity)
This is a fun, no-prep end of year activity to see how well (or not well) your students know you! The students get to come up with creative responses to fun and engaging prompts.Depending on the age of your students, you can pick and choose which slides to assign. For the older kids, I've included prompts related to social media.
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3rd - 12th
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Navajo Code Talker + World War 2 Escape Room Challenge Activity
Navajo Code Talker Crack the Code Activity | Crack the Navajo Code that won WW2!This version is designed for the traditional classroom. You can find the version that is optimized for the digital, distance learning classroom here.In this 100% fun and engaging code-cracking breakout activity, students are introduced to the secret Navajo Code developed by the Navajo Code Talkers in World War II that was used to transmit messages while evading enemy detention. Enjoy this historical cipher activity!S
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6th - 10th
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Histagories Social Studies End of Year Activity for US and World History
In this history review and conversation game, students are engaged with 8 short lists of information where they work with partners (or individually) to try to come up with answers based on the letter for the round. Included is a letter-choosing paper (students flip a coin and see where it lands!) plus 8 different lists geared toward History, Geography, Geology, and Social Studies themes! A condensed worksheet is also included to save space.Enjoy this fun way to spend the first few (or last few
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5th - 8th
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Classroom Scattergories | Community Building Activity
This Classroom Scattergories Game is a great icebreaker for the beginning of the year, a fun game for the end of the year, or perfect to play throughout the year! This resource includes both a printable and digital version. It can be played as a full class with the students playing individually or in pairs or teams that compete during each round. The game can be made as short or long as you want it, so it's also a fun time filler that keeps students thinking. It's great for sub plans, to use dur
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3rd - 12th, Staff
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Types of Governments Straw Activity Simulation
An interactive simulation to introduce the types of governments to middle-schoolers. Students get to compete with each other in groups to see who can build the best straw tower with straws and tape, but there's a slight catch: each group must build the straw tower how their assigned government would build it. This is guaranteed to be a fun activity that students will love while simultaneously learning about different types of governments!This Types of Governments Straw Activity includes:♦ Instru
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5th - 8th
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Branches of Government ESCAPE ROOM! Legislative, Executive, Judicial Branch
The Branches of Government Escape Room will take students on a secret mission around the classroom! This escape room has students decode interesting facts about the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Branches of government. This Escape Room has students walking around the classroom breaking codes. The codes include ciphers, Morse code, cryptograms and a final 4 digit code based on the decoders/clues.What’s Included?✏️ 4 Reading Passages✏️ 4 Puzzle Phrases to Decode✏️ 4 Decoders✏️ 4 Differentiat
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4th - 8th
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May Word Searches and Puzzles
Bring some fun into your classroom with this packet of May word searches, word puzzles, and mazes! PERFECT for spare minutes, early finishers, morning work, and more! Includes Memorial Day word search and other exciting topics related to the month of May. Click the PREVIEW button above to see everything included.Click HERE to save 35% off all 12 monthly puzzle packets with the BUNDLE FOR THE YEAR!This printable packet of May-themed puzzles includes:3 Word SearchesCrack the CodeUnscramble the Wor
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Word Search Puzzles and Maze Puzzles and Practice BUNDLE for the YEAR
100 Spanish Cognates Word Search Beginning Spanish Vocabulary Worksheet
Find 100 Spanish cognates in TWO printable Spanish word searches. Fun Spanish worksheets with a list of 50 cognates from a - z on each page! Spanish cognates are a great way to build confidence. Must have vocabulary building activity for back to school. Use as a first day of Spanish activity or for emergency sub plans! Answer keyIncludes two worksheets where students find basic cognates from a - z. Use Spanish wordsearches as a warm-up, homework, for fast finishers, in stations, as an after-test
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5th - 10th
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Greek Mythology Escape Room ... Escape from the Underworld
Escape the mundane by having your class work together to solve this Low-Prep, Greek Mythology Escape Room!! This activity includes 4 puzzles about Ancient Greece and Greek Mythology that students must complete in order to ESCAPE FROM THE UNDERWORLD. Your students will solve the puzzles to receive the codes. They will then use those codes to unlock "locked" questions on a Google Form. Everything is included to help you run a successful escape room! My students have loved these resources and hav
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5th - 8th
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End of the Year Drama Circle Activity
Have a little dramatic fun during the last days of school with this End of the Year drama activity. Drama Circles are such a fun way to practice oral reading fluency, reading with expression, elements of drama, listening skills, following instructions, and performance skills, all in one cooperative learning activity! This fun drama activity will keep your students moving, and is perfect for the end of the school year. It has a similar format to the “I Have / Who Has” Games and will have your stu
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: End of the Year Activities Bundle for Upper Grades
End of the School Year BINGO (Summer Theme)
Celebrate the end of the school year with your students with BINGO!!! This BINGO set includes 30 DIFFERENT bingo cards with pictures AND words. A full sheet calling card and individual calling cards are also included! Just print and go! This is a fun activity for kids of all ages!
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PreK - 8th
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