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Kindergarten social studies webquests
Project Based Learning - Native Americans | PBL | Build | Plans | Rubric
Exploring Native American soon? This project-based learning unit is filled with engaging activities and facts. The aim is to encourage students to explore the topic for an extended period.This unit is ideal for Native American Heritage month (November) or any time of the year. This PBL was “piloted” on a kindergarten class, but could be modified for pre-K level. It contains the following activities:KWL chart, Pocket chart picturesDrumbeats (syllables)
Grades:
K - 1st
Career Exploration - Law, Public Safety, Corrections and Security
Career Exploration is an important part of education. These are easy to use, self explanatory worksheets. They are meant to be a supplement to an already existing Careers unit, or great for using when you have a guest teacher, or even when you are trying to encourage students to look outside their own sphere. In this one, students use the Bureau of Labor Statistics website to explore careers in Career Cluster: Law, Public Safety, Corrections and Security. Download this file or buy the entire bun
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Goods and Services Sort Worksheets Kindergarten & 1st Grade Economics
These Economics sorting worksheets are fun interactive activities that give kindergarten and 1st grade sort, cut, and glue worksheets to help them see the differences in goods, services, producers, and consumers. These worksheets are great supplemental practice activities that can be used with ANY social studies curriculum!These Goods, Services, Producers, and Consumers Social Studies worksheetsare interactive and designed to give students fun and engaging activities to practice, identify, and
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K - 2nd
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CCSS:
Needs and Wants Kindergarten - Wants and Needs Scarcity Economics 1st Grade
Add excitement to your Needs and Wants Social Studies Economics Units with these fun, interactive, DIGITAL and PRINTABLE Wants vs. Needs Activities! Students will use 84 task cards to practice identifying objects that are basic needs (food, water, clothing, transportation, and shelter) and which items (toys, candy, technology, and pets) are wants. These Needs vs Wants task cards are great supplemental practice activities and can be used with ANY social studies curriculum!You will guide your stu
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K - 3rd
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Internet Scavenger Hunt - American Folktales - Distance Learning
This scavenger hunt allows students to explore websites in order to know key characters from American folktales and songs, including John Henry, Annie Oakley, Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crockett and Paul Bunyan. An internet scavenger hunt is similar to a web quest, in that students will use the internet to find information. However, internet scavenger hunts are designed for students to search for specific answers, rather than creating an open ended project. Internet scavenger hunts can be done as a
Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: Internet Scavenger Hunt Bundle - First Grade
Internet Scavenger Hunt - American Symbols - Distance Learning
This scavenger hunt allows students to explore websites in order to identify important American symbols. An internet scavenger hunt is similar to a web quest, in that students will use the internet to find information. However, internet scavenger hunts are designed for students to search for specific answers, rather than creating an open ended project. Internet scavenger hunts can be done as a whole class, in small groups, individually and even at home.This .zip folder includes a variety of form
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: Internet Scavenger Hunt Bundle - Kindergarten - Distance Learning
Black History Month QR Code
Black History Month QR Code
Booklet with a QR Code on separate pages to hang around
QR code to links to websites.
Featuring:
What celebrate Black History Month?
Frederick Douglas
Harriet Tubman
Louis Armstrong
Ruby Bridges
Jackie Robinson
George Washington Carver
Rosa Parks
Malcolm X
Muhammad Ali
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PreK - 12th, Adult Education
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American Symbols Activities for United States Symbols
Give your students fun and interactive DIGITAL learning activities to learn about Symbols of America and The United States. This is a set of 30 DIGITAL task cards that give students practice identifying American Symbols and Famous U.S. Landmarks. These NO PREP Symbols of a Great Nation social studies activities can be used in whole group teaching, small groups, and centers too! YOU DO NOT NEED A BOOM LEARNING ACCOUNT TO USE THIS RESOURCE!You will be able to use these Symbols of the United States
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K - 2nd
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Goods and Services Picture Sorting - Good or Service Digital Boom Cards
Give your primary grade students fun supplemental practice activities as they learn the differences in Goods and Services! These DIGITAL and PRINTABLE Goods and Services economics activities require NO READING and give students pictures to identify as either a good or a service. These 42 Goods and Services social studies economic activities will go with ANY social studies curriculum too!These PRINTABLE and DIGITAL Boom Cards and Easel activities are interactive task cards and designed to give st
Grades:
K - 2nd
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CCSS:
World War I WebQuest
The students will be able to use the following website to complete a World War I WebQuest. The students will click on each section topic and answer the questions to the fullest.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Internet Scavenger Hunt Bundle - Kindergarten - Distance Learning
An internet scavenger hunt is similar to a webquest, in that students will use the internet to find information. However, internet scavenger hunts are designed for students to search for specific answers, rather than creating an open ended project. Internet scavenger hunts can be done as a whole class, in small groups, individually and even at home.This is a packet of 8 scavenger hunts, all geared to Georgia's Kindergarten Performance Standards. The scavenger hunts included cover: Day & Nigh
Grades:
K
World War 1 WebQuest
The students will be able to use the following website to complete a World War I WebQuest. The students will click on each section topic and answer the questions to the fullest.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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QR Code Habitat Investigation
This QR Code Habitat Investigation is a great whole group inquiry activity, small group investigation, or independent activity (centers, extension, "I'm done") for students grades K-2. There are different versions for those of you without subscriptions to tools like BrainPOP or PebbleGo. Reminder, BrainPOP and PebbleGo are paid subscriptions (though sometimes you can Google free logins). If you do not have memberships to these sites, you will only be able to use the YouTube QR pages.Version 1: B
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K - 3rd
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Time Travelers: Exploring Black History Month!
Students will learn about the importance of Black History Month.Students will be introduced to influential Black figures who made significant contributions to various fields.Students will develop research and communication skills through engaging activities.
Grades:
K - 3rd
Musical Scavenger Hunts
Looking for fun scavenger hunts for your music class? Here are three great products that challenge your students to use their environment and the internet to search for the answers to a variety of scavenger hunts. Musical Scavenger Hunt: This no-prep game is great for a first day of school activity or for a sub tub!Students fill out their own information and then search for students in the classroom with the same answers as theirs. This is a great ice breaker and an even better way to get to
Grades:
K - 12th
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Internet Scavenger Hunt - American Holidays - Distance Learning
This scavenger hunt allows students to explore websites using links, or QR codes, in order to identify American holidays. This can be done at school, or at home, independently, in groups, with a teacher or parent, or in many other different ways to fit the needs of your classroom and your students. This .zip folder includes a variety of formats of the internet scavenger hunt. Choose the format that best fits your need.Format 1 – Type On Version – This is a word document, which can be typed direc
Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: Internet Scavenger Hunt Bundle - Kindergarten - Distance Learning
QR Code Biography Investigation
This QR Code Habitat Investigation is a great whole group inquiry activity, small group investigation, or independent activity (centers, extension, "I'm done") for students grades K-2. There are different versions for those of you without subscriptions to tools like BrainPOP or PebbleGo. Reminder, if you do not have a subscription, the BrainPOP and PebbleGo QR codes will not work (but the YouTube ones will work great!). All YouTube links are shared via SafeShare to keep kids on the singular vide
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Grades:
K - 2nd
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Internet Scavenger Hunt - Community Helpers - Distance Learning
This scavenger hunt allows students to explore websites in order to understand community helpers. An internet scavenger hunt is similar to a web quest, in that students will use the internet to find information. However, internet scavenger hunts are designed for students to search for specific answers, rather than creating an open ended project. Internet scavenger hunts can be done as a whole class, in small groups, individually and even at home.This .zip folder includes a variety of formats of
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Grades:
K - 1st
Also included in: Internet Scavenger Hunt Bundle - Kindergarten - Distance Learning
4-Week 1st Grade Distance Learning Activities
These slides are designed to guide KG and/or 1st grade students through a series of online learning activities. This unit focuses on: Mapping, Habitats, Addition/Subtraction and Digraphs.
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Grades:
K - 1st
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NGSS:
K-LS1-1
, 1-LS3-1
Chiaroscuro Renaissance Art Activity and Web Quest
I crafted this lesson to make Renaissance art techniques accessible to a 2nd grade homeschool student. I now present it with full instructions and a web quest which should be valuable for all K-12 students of art or European history of the Middle Ages.
Although I did not mention him, Leonardo da Vinci is credited with bringing this technique to the fore. I do not have an art background with the exception of one drawing class in college, so what I have learned about chiaroscuro and pencil work
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Grades:
K - 12th
KidNuz Daily Podcast Activity
Trying to fit current events in to your daily routine or curriculum? Here is a quick daily activity that connects to the KidNuz podcasts. Students listen to the podcast, complete the online quiz, and then complete the WH questions that go along with it.
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PreK - 8th
PebbleGo Maps Webquest
**You must have access to PebbleGo.com to use this webquest.**I created this webquest to go along with our study of maps. The log-in directions are at the top of the page (please make sure your students have the username and password to pebblego.com). Students read the information and fill in the blanks from the webquest.This is a great tool to teach note-taking and to provide scaffolding to students for reading comprehension. The students LOVE getting to use the computers for this!This webquest
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K - 3rd
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Texas Symbols QR Code Scavenger Hunt
This page is a great for introducing, reviewing or reinforcing the Texas symbols. The students love working with QR codes and have really enjoyed this activity.
Grades:
K - 3rd
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Omaha, Nebraska - electronic worksheet
This is an e-sheet (electronic worksheet) with links to various websites. Links are kid-appropriate. It requires the students to look for keywords to find the answers.
Questions ask about the history, important events and famous people and places in the City of Omaha, Nebraska.
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PreK - 12th
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