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8th grade critical thinking social studies teacher manuals for parents
First Day of School Slides (Rules & Procedures, Icebreaker Activity & More!)
Need help planning your first day of school? Unsure of what rules, expectations, and procedures to cover? Not quite sure how to introduce yourself to your new students? Worry no more. I've got you! In these editable Google Slides, you will have access to:Teacher introduction slidesRulesProceduresAn icebreaker activityand more!The slides are completely editable. Feel free to modify these to suit your classroom, personal teaching style, grade level, and subject.
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4th - 12th
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Student Self Reflection & Evaluation | Conferences & Report Cards
This student self reflection resource is an excellent way for your students to evaluate their learning to share during student led and parent teacher conferences. It can be used for any reporting period to converse with your students about their successes and ways in which they can improve. The activity can be used for in person instruction as well as assigned digitally to share in an online portfolio.May be used as a printable resource or assigned on Google Classroom with your students.Resourc
Grades:
4th - 8th
Ancient Rome: Twelve Tables of Roman Law Using Classroom as Courtroom
This is my favorite lesson for teaching about Ancient Rome, and it's the favorite of many other teachers as well. You receive a four-six hour unit plan for studying ancient Roman law through engagement and interaction between the teacher and the class and classmates themselves.
More importantly, it is a complete set of plans for active and exciting learning that involves creating a mock Roman courtroom in your classroom (based on historical fact) and judging up to THREE real court trials from
Grades:
5th - 10th
World War II Project Menu- No prep, share and go!
This highly engaging, no prep, share or print and go project menu gives students the opportunity to be engaged in activities which deepen their understanding of World War II while sharpening their critical thinking, writing, research, and artistic skills. Since this is a PDF file, this product may be easily shared with students so that they may view directions virtually and complete project activities either virtually or on paper. Students can choose from options like: creating a photo collage (
Grades:
5th - 8th
Critical Thinking Activity High School Reading Comprehension Socratic Seminar
Ready to revolutionize the way your students learn? Tired of battling plagiarism and quick-fix essay generators like ChatGPT? We've got the solution!Introducing innovative Socratic Seminar, Annotation, and Visual Essay tools - designed specifically for ELA middle and high school students.⭐Reduce cheating and plagiarism⭐Spend less time marking essays and more time giving helpful feedback⭐Capture students’ ideas more effectively and engage them in learning⭐Help your visual learners understand conc
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Social Studies Choice Board: Project-Based Independent Learning
Keep their brains active and get them engaged in their learning with this project-based Social Studies choice board! These projects will activate prior knowledge and motivate students to seek out new skills they have not yet mastered.This choice board includes sixteen project choices that involve multiple real-life social studies applications, including:physical geographyculturehistory current eventsgovernment and politicslandmarkssymbologyeconomicsIt's up to you to decide how to use this choice
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6th - 10th
Strategies for Teaching Vocabulary with Google Slide™ Templates
Are your students struggling with vocabulary word after vocabulary word? Have you discovered that copying the word and definition from the back of the book really doesn’t work? These instructional strategies are for you! You will receive over 20 vocabulary instructional strategies and templates designed for upper elementary and secondary Social Studies students. This resource has been updated to include Google Slide™ templates for Distance Learning. This strategy manual includes:- Say What? – i
Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in: SOCIAL STUDIES STRATEGIES BUNDLE
US History VOCABULARY and ERA BUNDLE
Support your vocabulary and content instruction in American History - use images for key events and vocabulary throughout the year. Included in this bundle are the US History Word Wall Terms for a year, US History Era Images, and the Vocabulary Strategies Manual. These resources combined will help you teach American History content and vocabulary all year long! ⭐Please download the previews to see more information on these resources. ⭐**********************************************************
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5th - 9th
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Growth Mindset Information Letters for Parents: Send Home Notes
Growth Mindset Letters for Parents: 33 Weekly Informational NotesGrowth Mindset Information for Parents: This growth mindset notes for parents pack is perfect for teachers who want to help parents understand growth mindset concepts. In addition to 33 half-page notes that can be sent home throughout the year, you will find two pages of information to send home right at the beginning of the year (or the beginning of your growth mindset instruction). These pages give parents a firm foundation fo
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2nd - 10th
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Back to School Welcome Letter Template | Editable |
This welcome letter is a great handout for back to school! Pass this letter out to families at back-to-school night or send it home on the first day of school. Link to Google Slides is included or customize on PowerPoint. Comes with 38 different washi tape options for a fun accent!What is included:One blank colored templateOne blank black and white templateOne page with 24 colored washi tape options so you can customize your templateOne page with 14 black and white washi tape options so you can
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in: Back to School Teacher Forms Bundle
Cognitive distortions worksheets, coping skills, anxiety, worries, thoughts
A worry is a feeling of unease, fear or nervousness when you start to think about unpleasant things. It is a type of thinking, often about something that might happen in the future and it leaves you feeling frightened, nervous or anxious. Some people call worries, anxiety or stress. Everybody experiences worries, however if you are starting to feel worried more often or if you can't seem to stop thinking about your worry and it is leaving you feeling upset, you may be experiencing anxiety.The di
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Model UN Lesson and Activity Bundle
Help your students be the best delegates that they can be with these resources for Model UN. The aim of these lessons and activities is to take the guess work out of Model United Nations and help advisors to run effective clubs, classes, and conferences, with much less prep. The bundle includes no-prep lessons to teach students essential MUN skills and guides for advisors about building a successful program.You save 20% off the price of each resource included by purchasing this bundle.Looking fo
Grades:
7th - 10th
The Constitution and Bill of Rights BINGO
Looking for an engaging way to review the basics of The Constitution and Bill of Rights? What about a super easy low-prep sub activity? This Constitution and Bill of Rights BINGO game is exactly what you need! Depending on the topic and the needs of your class, consider using it as a small group activity or station. If using whole group maybe play just for fun or for something like Class Dojo points, not candy or prizes. Mix and match the calling cards and game version, too! Start out using the
Grades:
4th - 8th
Also included in: Social Studies BINGO Game BUNDLE
Therapist essential bundle, counselling worksheets, therapy tools
This ultimate therapy bundle includes 6 workbooks.- Parent separation- Think it or say it social skills- Self esteem , self identity- Worry monsters- Whats in my control- CBT, the magic triangle
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K - 9th
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Argumentative Text, high school reading comprehension passages and questions
Argumentative Text, high school reading comprehension passages and questions This educational tool delves into fascinating and vital court cases!THIS PRODUCT IS PART OF A BUNDLE: CCSD BUNDLE"My co-teacher and I teach a full inclusive class of seniors, and we wanted some active lessons that could also be done via Google Classroom (if we had a quarantined kid, etc.) that made them think and were engaging. We knew they'd get a kick out of this lesson, but we were not prepared for them to become obs
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Viewing Guide
A key part of holding students' attention and keeping them interested in class is relevance. The 2013 film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom is a Social Studies teacher's dream! It's new, exciting, AND uber-educational! YAY!
Here's my tried and true viewing guide pack for the film. It includes student questions to answer during the film (in order), teacher notes (answers and lets you know when to hit FastForward due to some intimate moments), a permission slip to send home to parents, and a refle
Grades:
7th - 12th
MAUS | Teacher notes, activities, tests, answers, Google Slides, Forms, Creative
MAUS | Teacher notes, activities, tests, answers, Google Slides, Forms, Creative Ideas for the High School Classroom 200 PAGES and 63 SLIDES! When it comes to Holocaust literature, there are few books that can compare to Maus. Written and illustrated by Art Spiegelman, Maus tells the story of Spiegelman's parents and their experiences during the Holocaust. The book is unique which helps to bring the story to life in a way that few other books can. Maus is an excellent choice for high school stud
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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13 Colonies Anchor Chart Kit for the American Colonies
This Colonization Anchor Chart Kit contains the resources required to make several different anchor charts for the Colonization Era and the 13 Colonies – just print and paste! It also contains ideas for other types of anchor charts you can use during this unit. The clip art and anchor chart ideas are included in this resource.This kit is designed to help inspire your own journey in creating anchor charts in Secondary Social Studies. All are great examples for you to see and use. Clip Artists h
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5th - 8th
To Kill a Mockingbird Teacher's Guide
Perhaps you already have a unit you've purchased from a publisher or another teacher. Or maybe you inherited a file cabinet of resources. But will these handouts help you teach this classic novel?
If you want a resource that will truly help you teach the novel, look no further. This novel has been my favorite for the past 25 years. I've read it over 100 times and have been teaching it for the past 12 years. Each year I add more to my extensive notes.
This resource goes through each chapter a
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8th - 11th, Staff
Note-Taking Strategy -- CORNELL -- Training for Middle and High School Students
Introduction to Resource:The intent of this resource is for you, as an educator, to be able to utilize it as a year-long teaching tool when teaching and reinforcing one of the most important life skills one can attain and master – the ability to take notes and be able to utilize the notes in a fashion that strengthens one’s knowledge and skills in general. The resource is 82 pages long but does NOT have to be implemented in its entirety; but rather in small more “digestible” chunks of informatio
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Power to the People: Music of Social Justice No Prep Handbook for Grades 8-12
Music has accompanied every major social movement of the 20th and 21st centuries in America. Power to the People is designed to help students unpack the construction, meaning, and influence of protest and social justice music.
This NO PREP handbook includes:
-9 detailed lessons
-Reproducible student handouts
-Links to media
-Big Ideas and Essential Questions
-Authentic Performance Task Ideas
-Website with live audio/video links (listed after table of contents)
Topics Include:
-Music of
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Holocaust, activity for Night by Elie Wiesel, textual analysis, writing prompts
Pre-reading activity for Night by Elie Wiesel, analysis HOPE, DESPAIR AND MEMORY This is one part of a larger lesson on Elie Wiesel. There are some common elements between the two, but my second product goes beyond the scope of this product, so if you like what you see here please have a look at the following: ❤️❤️Elie Wiesel: Hope, Despair and Memory ❤️❤️This is a self-contained product on textual analysis; everything you need is here. This product focuses on a small section of the Nobel Peace
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Social Studies Anchor Charts Grade 5 (South Carolina) 136 Charts!
This file includes ALL of my anchor charts for fifth grade social studies in South Carolina using the South Carolina College and Career Ready standards. I have worked 6 years on getting all of these anchor charts just right. This document is EXACTLY what my fifth graders have in their notebooks for social studies notes throughout the year.
These charts are COLOR coded, EASY to understand, and DETAILED showing EACH step! These notes come directly from the Support Documents on the SCDOE website!
Grades:
4th - 9th
Divorce worksheets for kids, divorce worksheets, parent separation, separation
Divorce is a stressful and scary time for young children. They are often left with lots of questions and unable to process their feelings.This workbook is perfect for children age 5 - 12, it will help them navigate their feelings, questions and understand the process of parents splitting up.The workbook includes 15 fun and engaging worksheets. It can be used in therapy sessions or at home. Comes in A4 size.For more products please visit my store© ALL DESIGNS are copyrighted and property of Couns
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PreK - 8th
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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.
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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.
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