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Social studies Common Core W.6.2a internet activities
Black History Month Research Activities - Social Media Project - Posters - Decor
This social media mini-research project contains the PERFECT Black History Month activities for middle school and high school students to learn about influential African American individuals during Black History Month. Take back your time with this LOW PREP project that comes in both PRINT and DIGITAL versions. These social media templates contain over 30 pages of instructional materials that will help guide teachers and students through this activity. You will also receive a bonus set of custom
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6th - 9th
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ANCIENT ROME: World History Travel Brochure Research Summary Project
Have you ever wanted to take your class to Ancient Rome? Now you can without spending a dime! On this virtual field trip, students will become the travel guides. Through summaries and pictures, students will create a travel brochure that highlights 10 major locations of the Ancient Roman Empire. This creative project includes writing, research, and graphic design. What's Included:Student instructions to help explain all aspects of the projectA map of the Roman Empire to locate each stop of th
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5th - 12th
Country Research Project | Country Report | Google Classroom | Google Slides
Engage your students with these colorful Google Slides to have your students learn more about a country that they choose. This Google Classroom resource contains a complete paperless resource to help guide your students as they produce their research report.Templates are included to create, develop, write, edit, present, and assess your students’ Country Report. This report (or performance task) is also designed to not only to learn and explain the new information, but answer some higher level t
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4th - 8th
Also included in: Country Report Printable and Google Slides Bundle
PRESIDENTS DAY PROJECT: Summarize the Life and Biography of a President
Students will create a slide presentation, video, or any project format about a President of their choice. This project explains what students must research and includes a grading rubric for the teacher. Students will research both personal and executive events of their chosen Commander in Chief. It's great for a President's Day activity, a substitute teacher, or for any unit that studies the United States Presidents. Helpful websites are even included to help students find appropriate informati
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Biography Project | Report Template | Google Slides
Use technology to help students create an engaging digital biography report about anyone in the world! This colorful, Google slides based fun activity is completely paperless and is perfect for Chromebooks, HP Streams, and other devices in a 1:1 classroom.Use these activities to engage students in a Writing Center, small group, or in an independent environment. It's great for homework or when you have a substitute in your class. This resource is also perfect for home school students.Works with
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in: Biography Report Printable and Google Slides Bundle
Tech Lesson - Google Maps - GPS Buddy {Technology Lesson Plan}
Map reading seems like a lost art. An ancient skill that people used long before the smartphone. Students rely so much on their smart phones and tablets to help get them where they need or what they want. Break up the routine by having your students be the smart phone!
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All resources are organized for assigning through Google Classroom!
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Google Maps Unit Lesson Plan Bundle
Google Maps GPS Buddy will have your stud
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Middle and High School STEM and Technology Curriculum
Washington DC: Create a Field Trip Project Activity to the Nation's Capital City
OverviewCan't take your class to Washington DC? This lesson is the solution to getting your students to our Nation's Capital without spending a dime. As tour guides, students will study various memorials, buildings, and attractions to research and present to the class in the form of a presentation. These various "tours" will bring the entire class around to the major attractions of Washington DC. This student-led, virtual class field trip will help your students learn about the major sites o
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5th - 12th
Native Americans | Native American Report | Google Classroom | Google Slides
Engage your students with these colorful Google Slides to have your students learn more about Native Americans. This Google Classroom resource contains a complete paperless report to help guide your students as they produce their research report.Use these activities to engage students in a whole class, small group, or independent environment. This resource is also perfect for home school students.Templates are included to create, develop, write, edit, present, and assess your students’ Native Am
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3rd - 7th
Also included in: Native American Report Printable and Google Slides Bundle
The Constitution Lessons, Activities, Centers, & Assessment Bundle
If you teach the Constitution, this bundle will give you absolutely everything you need to teach a month-long unit. Your middle school students will have a firm understanding on the content, and you will be able to easily provide interactive lessons, activities and assessments with NO PREP! Here is what is included:1. Establishing the Constitution Complete UnitUse this complete unit on Establishing the Constitution to easily and creatively teach your middle schoolers! You will have absolutel
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5th - 8th
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American History Lessons, Activities, & Assessments for Middle School Bundle
If you teach early American History in middle school, you will have everything you need for 6 months. You will have all the lessons, activities, assessments, and creative ideas that are needed for these 6 units. There are 6 bundles within this mega bundle. The month long unit bundles are:Native Americans BundleEarly Exploration BundleColonial America BundleCauses of the Revolution BundleRevolution Begins and Declaration of Independence BundleAmerican Revolution BundleEach unit bundle includes
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5th - 8th
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State Research Project | State Report | Google Classroom | Google Slides
Engage your students with these colorful Google Slides to have your students learn more about a state that they choose. This Google Classroom resource contains a complete paperless resource to help guide your students as they produce their research report.Use these activities to engage students in a whole class, small group, or independent environment. This resource is also perfect for home school students.Templates are included to create, develop, write, edit, present, and assess your students’
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4th - 6th
Also included in: State Report Printable and Google Slides Bundle
Middle School Social Studies 50 States Geography Workbook PDF OR EASEL Full-Year
This is my North American Geography Workbook bundle for Social Studies or content-based literacy ELA classrooms. You get 4, full-sized geography workbooks, puzzle packs, task card sets, study guides, and assessments. Do you need something students can do independently?Differentiated resources at the 3rd-8th grade level?Want a way to integrate literacy into your Social Studies classroom (or content-based writing into English class)? Look no further! What is inside each of the 4 workbooks: State r
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3rd - 8th
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Jewish American Heritage Month Research Activities - Social Media Project
This social media mini-research project contains the PERFECT Jewish American Heritage Month activities for middle school and high school students to learn about influential Jewish American individuals during Jewish American Heritage Month. Take back your time with this LOW PREP project that comes in both PRINT and DIGITAL versions. These social media templates contain over 30 pages of instructional materials that will help guide teachers and students through this activity. You will also receive
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6th - 9th
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Graphic Organizers for Reading, Writing & Topic made in Google Docs & Slides
This package contains 70 Graphic Organisers that have been created in both Google Docs, Google Slides and 4 in Google Draw. There is 140 graphic organisers in total.You and your students will have to have Google Accounts to use these Graphic Organisers.Click on the bit.ly links on the cards. This will take you to the Google Doc, Slide or Draw file. Make a copy. You are free to make any adjustments to the files at this point, to make them more suitable for your students. Share the file with your
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3rd - 7th
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Platypus PowerPoint with Activity and Study Guide
Get ready to explore the world of the Duck-billed platypus, one of the most bizarre and mysterious mammals in the world from eastern Australia and Tasmania. Platypus facts include that they sport a tail like a beaver, bill and feet like a duck, and lay eggs like a bird! Platypuses give birth to furless babies called puggles. What's Included:One Quick Start GuideOne 23-slide animated PowerPoint (both PPTX and PDF file types)One 20-page fillable student activity and study guideOne 26-page EDITABLE
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3rd - 8th
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4-LS1-1
, MS-LS1-4
, 4-LS1-2
Revolution & Declaration of Independence Lessons & Activities Bundle
If you and your middle school students find a regular textbook boring and tedious, this is the product for you. I've designed a full-month unit with activities on the Revolution and Declaration so you can just attach and go! Easily provide interactive lessons, activities, and assessments with NO PREP!This unit begins with the start of the Revolutionary War and goes through the writing of the Declaration of Independence.Here is what is included:✅Product 1: Revolution Begins and Declaration of In
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5th - 8th
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Revolutionary War Lessons, Activities, Centers & Assessments Bundle
If you and your middle school students find a regular textbook boring and tedious, this is the product for you. I've designed a full-month unit with activities on the Revolutionary War so you can just attach and go! Easily provide interactive lessons, activities, and assessments with NO PREP!Here is what is included:✅Product 1: American Revolution Complete UnitUse this complete unit on The American Revolution to easily and creatively teach your middle schoolers! You will have absolutely everyt
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5th - 8th
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Video Game Character Design (Book characters, historical figures, "About You")
I use this project at the begin of our characterization unit in ELA! Students warm-up to the idea of exploring characters on a deeper level after they are able to share how THEY function as characters, too! For a long time, I've wanted to find something that gives a "video game" feel to a project, and this fits what I was looking for! There are a total of 21 slides in this file (half are blank for the student project, and half are fully-completed example slides). Students will be asked to consid
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6th - 9th
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Causes of the Revolution Lessons, Activities, Centers, & Assessments Bundle
If you and your middle school students find a regular textbook boring and tedious, this is the product for you. I've designed a full-month unit with activities on the Causes of the Revolution so you can just attach and go! Interactive lessons, activities, and assessments give you absolutely everything you need to teach a complete unit that is engaging and meaningful.This unit begins with the French and Indian War and goes through the early battles of the war (Lexington/Concord & Bunker Hill)
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5th - 8th
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Colonial America Lessons, Activities, Centers & Assessment Bundle
The 13 Colonies made easy! If you and your middle school students find a regular textbook boring and tedious, this is the product for you. I've designed a full-month unit with activities on Colonial America so you can just attach and go! Easily provide interactive lessons, activities, and assessments with NO PREP!Here is what is included:✅Colonial America Complete UnitUse this complete unit on Colonial America to easily and creatively teach your middle schoolers! You will have absolutely every
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5th - 8th
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Explorers Lessons, Activities, Centers, & Assessment Bundle
The Age of Exploration made easy! If you and your middle school students find a regular textbook boring and tedious, this is the product for you. I've designed a full-month unit with activities on early explorers so you can just attach and go! Easily provide interactive lessons, activities, and assessments with NO PREP!Here is what is included:✅Age Exploration Complete Unit for Middle SchoolUse this complete unit on the age of exploration to easily and creatively teach your middle schoolers! Yo
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5th - 8th
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Ballot or the Bullet: Primary Source Speech Analysis & Follow-up Activities
This product has been designed with the intent to analyze the speech "Ballot or the Bullet" by Malcolm X. This product includes the following:PDF text of the entire speechVideo/Audio of the speech with annotations and subtitles3 writing prompt choices linked to CCSS5 different follow-up activities for different ages / both larger and smaller groups.Google Slides compatable format to be done entirely online*****************************************************************************Related Produc
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6th - 12th
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Pele Biography Writing Unit Digital & Print | 5th Grade & 6th Grade
A Google Slides biography writing unit about the famous Brazilian soccer star, Pele. The unit is ideal for both in-class and distance learning in fifth grade and sixth grade. The unit has been split into four separate lessons. The Google Slides activity is ideal for students learning about World History or for Black History Month.Included in this resource:A Google Slides Activity for work on computers or tabletsA PDF Printable Activity for written work⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻
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5th - 6th
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Amanda Gorman Biography Writing Unit Digital & Print | 5th Grade & 6th Grade
This is a biography writing unit about the life and career of the National Youth Poet Laureate and reader of 'The Hill We Climb' during the 2021 Inauguration of Joe Biden, Amanda Gorman. The unit is ideal for 5th grade and 6th grade and has been split into four separate lessons which will take students approximately 40-50 minutes each. The Google Slides activity is ideal for distance learning and perfect for students in 5th grade or 6th grade learning about U.S. History.The first lesson is inter
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5th - 7th
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