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1st grade social studies resources
EARTH DAY CRAFT ACTIVITIES Me on the Map Project Flip Book Earth Day Writing
This Earth Day Craft helps students understand where they are in relation to the Earth as a Whole through a review of map skills and geography. Some fun ideas are to have the students add an Earth Day Tee Shirt to the self-portrait section of the project or pairing it with a writing activity about conservation. This Maps and Globes activities pack has 8600+ POSITIVE REVIEWS and is the original & most highly-rated Me on the Map Project Activity Bundle on TpT. Teach map skills with crafts, pri
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1st - 5th
Little 1st grade Social Studies Thinkers YEAR-LONG CURRICULUM
Little Social Studies Thinkers is a complete Social Studies curriculum specifically for First Grade. It's everything you need to introduce, teach, practice, and assess your students. It is cross-referenced and aligned to the main topics of many 1st grade Social Studies Standards. __________________________________________________This full year-long curriculum contains lessons for the whole year. There are 5 full unit plans and 2 mini-units. The units included are:UNIT 1: RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSH
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Needs and Wants Picture Sort Kindergarten & First Grade Social Studies
Teaching your kindergarten and or first grade students the difference between a need and want? This sort page is perfect for teaching this all important standard in social studies! Use it for morning work, homework, assessment or as practice of this concept. Students will cut and glue to identify the following as either a need or a want:housemedicine water shoesbed foodcartelevisioncandybike coffeedog This resource includes: 1 needs and wants worksheet (pictures labeled)1 needs and wants workshe
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K - 1st
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Map Skills- Reading a Map and Activities
✅⭐️Are you studying maps in your primary classroom? If so, then you will love this all inclusive NO PREP set! Not only does it go over cardinal directions and how to read a map, it also reviews parts of a map such as the map key, title, and compass rose. It is a perfect lesson to include in your social studies geography unit!⭐Please know that this resource is a PDF. It is great for distance learning if you are sending home packets or are able to transfer it to Google Slides™ to use in Google Cla
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K - 5th
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Landforms & Map Skills Unit BUNDLE
Make learning about geography come to life with this landforms and map skills bundle unit for young learners! Your students will have the opportunity to explore the landforms that shape our Earth, as well as beginning map skills. This bundle contains a variety of printables, projects, crafts, and much more. Also available in...Landforms and Map Skills DIGITAL BundleLandforms and Map Skills PRINT & DIGITAL Mega BundleLANDFORMS pack includes:Recommended book list Landforms posters (landform, b
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1st - 3rd
KinderSocialStudies Kindergarten Social Studies Curriculum Bundle
KinderSocialStudies™ Curriculum Units- a kindergarten AND first grade comprehensive social studies curriculum designed for a classroom's whole-group instruction! If inquiring about this bundle for a homeschool setting, feel free to email me directly with any questions or for a sample at tara@littlemindsatwork.org!Save with the bundle!This is a bundle of (5) $10 units! When you purchase the bundle you are saving 20%! What is KinderSocialStudies?KinderSocialStudies Curriculum is a social studies
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K - 1st
AAPI Spring Bulletin Board Activity Coloring Pages Asian American Heritage Month
Celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month with our AAPI Teaching Resource Party Pack Bundle! It features coloring pages and classroom decor themed around this May season and is designed for all classrooms and ages! With 24 AAPI posters (12 portrait and 12 landscape), 24 coloring pages, 3 stylish bulletin board borders, and a "Celebrate AAPI" banner. Teachers can either display the ready-to-use colorful posters OR students can color the pages in!Product Highlights:24 AAPI Posters:
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K - 8th
2nd Grade Social Studies Curriculum Bundle
Save BIG when you purchase the bundle! The bundle is on sale for $10 off. The individual units are $10 each for $50!What is 2nd Grade Social Studies Curriculum?2nd Grade Social Studies Curriculum is an engaging social studies curriculum with young learners in mind! 2nd Grade Social Studies encourages young learners to think “outside the box” and prove their thinking through hands-on and engaging learning experiences. 2nd Grade Social Studies is based upon five units: Government and Democracy, Hi
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1st - 2nd
Little 1st Grade SOCIAL STUDIES Thinkers {UNIT 4: Community Economics}
Little Social Studies Thinkers is a complete social studies curriculum specifically for primary. It's everything you need to introduce, teach, practice, and assess your primary friends. It incorporates many state standards for 1st grade. This curriculum was completely researched, designed, and created by Karen Jones.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Full FIRST GRADE Little Social Studies Thinkers CurriculumFull KINDERGARTEN Little Social Studie
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Also included in: Little 1st grade Social Studies Thinkers YEAR-LONG CURRICULUM
Map Skills Worksheets, Books, Lap Book - Cardinal Directions, Compass Rose
Are you looking for an engaging first grade map skills resource to add to your social studies curriculum? This engaging resource is what you need to teach mapping skills like cardinal directions, compass rose, and map skills. Students will love the map skills books and the hands-on build a town map. Finally, students can demonstrate their learning with the final map skills lapbook. Use this resource for:first gradesecond gradewhole class instructionsmall group instructionpartner workStudents wi
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: First Grade Social Studies BUNDLE
Black History Month Activity Collaborative African American Biographical "Quilt"
My Famous Faces® of African-American History "Quilt" project is the perfect whole-class activity to do during Black History Month or any time of the year! It connects the individual with the group using hexagons that will tessellate to create a large “quilt” collaboration poster featuring 40 influential African Americans and their biographies. The final poster has a ton of “wow factor” when complete, and I hope it will make a large impact on your students as they learn about these 40 influential
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1st - 8th
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Also included in: Tessellation Bundle | Use one every month!
Trip to Mexico Power Point and Activities Pack | Cinco De Mayo Activities
Have a great time learning about Mexico with this fun Power Point and Activities Pack. Both PowerPoint and Google Slides versions are included. It's the perfect activity during Cinco De Mayo, the last week of school, or for some Friday fun! Your class will be introduced to the geography, language, culture, and food in Mexico. The PowerPoint is packed with colorful, real photos. And a variety of activities are included to help your students reflect on what they've learned. Be sure to read the tip
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K - 6th
Social Skills (SEL) and Character Curriculum Bundle for Little Learners
Social skills (SEL) are essential skills that teachers need to teach just like they need to teach letters and sounds. It is a life skill! The social skills units in this bundle include tons of visual supports, classroom routines, social stories, songs, engaging activities, vocabulary building, booklists, specific SEL lesson plans, positive notes, and much more. Create a classroom community of confident students who can solve problems, follow rules and routines, be kind to others, have empathy to
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PreK - 1st
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All About Me Craft Kid - Back to School Activities
This All About Me craftivity is so so CUTE! Kids and parents will love it. Great for All About Me Social Studies units, Back to School, or Open House.I like to use this craft at the beginning of the year. It's a fun way to get students excited about writing while allowing them to share about themselves and get to know each other.These are ADORABLE in the hallway during Open House.
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PreK - 3rd
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Community Helpers Activity Craft
Community Helpers Build a community for your social studies community helpers unit with these cute and easy to cut templates. Students will have fun with this 3D building activity and creating a class book on community helpers. Students will enjoy adding their own details to these templates.Included16 Different community buildings craft28 Community HelpersWeb worksheet about community helpersWriting PromptsClass book coverReview printables See Preview!!!Great for Art Center & Writing Cen
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K - 2nd
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Map Skills Unit with PowerPoint – Me on the Map – Maps and Globes - with Digital
This map skills unit for K-2 has all you need to teach your students about maps and globes. With an informational map skills PowerPoint slideshow (also included in video form), vocabulary resources, printable activities and books, and digital activities for Seesaw and Google Slides, this set will get your little geographers making, reading, and talking all about maps! Perfect to use alongside the read-aloud Me on the Map, this maps unit includes an easy-to-assemble “My Home” booklet with version
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K - 1st
Little 1st Grade SOCIAL STUDIES Thinkers {UNIT 5: Geography}
Little Social Studies Thinkers is a complete social studies curriculum specifically for primary. It's everything you need to introduce, teach, practice, and assess your primary friends. It incorporates many state standards for 1st grade. This curriculum was completely researched, designed, and created by Karen Jones.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Full FIRST GRADE Little Social Studies Thinkers CurriculumFull KINDERGARTEN Little Social Studie
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Also included in: Little 1st grade Social Studies Thinkers YEAR-LONG CURRICULUM
Christmas Around the World Scrapbook
A TpT TOP SELLER!!!! Take your students on a magical trip aboard Christmas Airlines to learn about Christmas in other countries! This interactive Christmas Around the World Scrapbook is a creative way to track student learning, and is a wonderful keepsake! This 63 page packet comes with a student scrapbook, Christmas Airlines plane boarding passes, passports and passport stamps for the journey, a teacher's guide with suggestions for books to read on your trip, food ideas, and fun crafts for eac
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K - 5th
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Memorial Day Activity | Patriotic Soldier Classroom Collaborative Poster
Don's miss out on this popular Patriotic Soldier Classroom Collaboration Poster from Art with Jenny K.!! Your kids won’t soon forget this project! This activity is so much fun because, in the end, you will have a very large (approx. 28” x 35”) poster to display in your classroom, hallway, or front entryway, to honor our soldiers on Memorial Day, Armed Forces Day, and/or Veterans Day. Along the way, students will work together as a group to create this beautiful tribute.The size of the poster var
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1st - 8th
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Social Studies Lessons | PowerPoint & Google Slides | BUNDLE
It's so hard to squeeze dedicated social studies lessons into our already jam-packed schedules. These short, no-prep, paperless mini-lessons will help you facilitate deep conversations about important topics. Bite-Size Social Studies is perfect for distance learning or remote learning. A paperless, no-prep, narrated version of these lessons will be added, so even the youngest students can learn independently. Send the files home via your chosen platform (Google Classroom, SeeSaw, etc).Each slide
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K - 3rd
Celebrations & Holidays Around the World Lessons, Crafts, Passages - Christmas
Are you looking to teach your students about celebrations and holidays around the world? This unit includes a study of 16 different celebrations and holidays around the world, where you and your students will “travel around the world” and see how other countries celebrate holidays. These holidays around the world crafts, passages, powerpoints and response pages will help your students have a better understanding of the world and the many cultures around the globe. You can use the PowerPoint wi
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K - 1st
American Symbols Bundle
This is the bundle!!! The American Symbols Unit and American Symbols Art. You and your students are going to LOVE over a month of reading, writing, and art! I created this as a perfect Open House unit. Kids, families and admin were so impressed! The American Symbols Included are: The White House, Bald Eagle, Mount Rushmore, American Flag, Liberty Bell, and the Statue of Liberty. UPDATE added The Washington Monument since so many of you requested it! This 130 page TpT best seller has everythin
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1st - 2nd
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Rainbow Classroom Job Chart
Classroom job chart in a RAINBOW design made with little learners in mind! Use classroom jobs in your class to build a sense of community and give students some responsibility. This set will help you manage your classroom jobs.
This has been designed to use a clip chart but can also be used in a pocket chart or placed on library pockets.
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This set is NOT editable.
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4 Classroom Job Headers to choose from.
52 Job C
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PreK - 1st
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Community Signs Skill Pack Leveled for Special Education - Life Skills
Do your students need a high level of varied practice in order to learn community signs? This community signs skill pack will help your students progress from identifying a sign to understanding what the community signs mean. Being able to identify and understand community signs is a crucial life skill. These activities help students recognize and understand the meaning of the different signs.This life skills and social studies set is already differentiated for you. There are 3 levels included t
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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.
Benefits of learning social studies
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.
Teaching with social studies resources
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.
Discover printable and digital social studies resources
If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable or digital social studies resources, TPT has an extensive array of instructional materials for every learning need, topic, or grade level. Whether you’re teaching students about America’s democratic process, the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., how to read maps, or World War II, we’ve got you covered.
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.
Frequently asked questions about teaching social studies
What types of social studies lessons are available on TPT?
There are many different types of history resources sold by Sellers on TPT. Some popular social studies lessons include U.S. history, world history, ancient history, geography, civics, and government.
How do I find social studies lessons on TPT?
Educators can save time preparing history lessons with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply start a search for social studies resources on the TPT marketplace, and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find materials that've been proven to work in classrooms like yours. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of social studies lessons and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.
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