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Social studies ebooks under $5
V8.4 Aligned Australian Federation: Teaching & Learning Digital Book Creator
Australian Federation Interactive Teaching & Learning Sequence*Students will need the app Book Creator on iPads to access this resource*Use this resource to guide your unit on the Federation of Australia. This resource is aligned with the Australian Curriculum for Year 6 students.The pages included cover:• Key vocabulary• Creating a chronological timeline• Cause & effect of Federation• Henry Parkes• Source analysis example & templates• Guided research of a significant individual• Con
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5th - 7th
Australian Curriculum V8.4 Federation Portfolio - Interactive Book Creator
Australian Federation Interactive Portfolio*Students will need the app Book Creator on iPads to access this resource*This is a really straightforward portfolio for students to use to develop appropriate investigation questions and then to research and present a significant figure in Australia's history. Each page is scaffolded for varying levels of access. The portfolio can be completed at different stages throughout the teaching & learning sequence.The resource includes pages for:• Question
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5th - 7th
Meditations (epub)
Nearly two thousand years after it was written, Meditations remains profoundly relevant for anyone seeking to lead a meaningful life. Few ancient works have been as influential as the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, philosopher and emperor of Rome (A.D. 161–180). A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, it remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. Marcus’s insights and ad
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12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Unsung Women in Somerset (epub)
Unsung Women in Somerset is a book of real-life and legendary women who lived, loved, worked and struggled in Somerset. From pre-Roman to modern times, we meet women with courage, kindness, innovation and even some who smashed the rules!Through 23 chapters, we meet most women through a short story, followed by historical notes about the woman and a chapter bibliography that shows the meticulous research that has gone into the book. Most chapters also include a Quick Tribute section that briefly
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3rd Grade Curriculum Questions -Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, and Math
3rd Grade - Comprehensive, Curriculum-aligned Questions and Answers Language Arts, Social Studies, Science and Math.Ebook! - Readable on any device - computer, phone, or tablet. Clickable Table of Contents with links to the Answers at the end! SEE PREVIEW!Why Ask Me Smarter? Because AMS provides parents and homeschool families with an all-in-one resource to further empower their kids with essential knowledge. Because AMS encompasses 2133 progressive, kid-engaging, curriculum-aligned question
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2nd - 4th, Staff
V8.4 Aligned Australian Government Student Workbook Book Creator
Disclaimer! This file is an e.Pub - It can only be opened in iBooks and Book Creator on an iPad. This resource is very versatile! It can be used as a prompt for teaching, as a student workbook, as a pre-assessment, or as a starting point for lesson planning. Teacher can model responses on Book Creator, or, if students have iPads, they can type into it as a workbook.It covers: Representative Democracy, Constitutional Monarchy, Magna Carta, The Separation of Powers, Three Levels of Government, The
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5th - 7th
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Cuentos incatásticos (epub)
This is an ebook of Spanish language stories for children, which includes the very popular free download 'Lágrimas de sangre'. The book is suitable for native Spanish speakers, bilingual kids, adults learning Spanish and teenagers and kids learning Spanish at a fairly high level. It introduces readers to a fascinating society that is not often studied.---Acompaña a la diosa Pachamama y al arco iris Cuychi en un viaje épico por la historia incaica. Conocerás a dioses, diosas, un mago, reinas, rey
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Also included in: Inca-tastic Tales (Spanish & English)
2nd Grade Curriculum Questions-Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, and Math
2nd Grade - Comprehensive, Curriculum-aligned Questions and Answers Language Arts, Social Studies, Science and Math.Ebook! - Readable on any device - computer, phone, or tablet. Clickable Table of Contents with links to the Answers at the end! SEE PREVIEW!Why Ask Me Smarter? Because AMS provides parents and homeschool families with an all-in-one resource to further empower their kids with essential knowledge. Because AMS encompasses 1170 progressive, kid-engaging, curriculum-aligned question
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1st - 3rd
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Pachamama, diosa extraordinaria (epub)
A Spanish resource for adults. You will find information, surprising facts and stories about Pachamama, Mother Nature. Alongside Pachamama, equally intriguing goddesses like Killa, Saramama, Mama Cocha and Cocamama appear in the book.This ebook is for people who are curious about the history of Peru, Ecuador, Chile or Bolivia, and who want a glimpse into Indigenous wisdom, knowledge and beliefs in pre-Hispanic times.Un viaje de descubrimiento con información, hechos sorprendentes e historias sob
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Travel Rangers: Mission to Australia - Picture Book Teaching Kids About AU
Travel Rangers: Mission to Australia is the first book in the Travel Rangers series, taking adventurous readers on a mission through Australia, where they will swim in the Great Barrier reef, climb the iconic Sydney Harbour bridge, meet some new animals, and even learn some fun Australian words and phrases.Perfect for kids ages 4-9 years old who are ready to uncover the many wonders of Australia with each page they turn.Created to teach kids about other cultures and countries, this series is bot
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: Travel Rangers: Mission to Australia - Teach Kids About Australia
What Makes You So Special: The Puzzle of Human Uniqueness
When we sat down to plan our first issue of Nautilus, we asked ourselves a simple question. What is the biggest statement that science has made about humans and our place in the universe in the past few hundred years? The answer suggested itself immediately: it seems we’ve been told that we just aren’t very important.
This was a bit of a surprise. We’re fans of science, you see. And some of our best friends are people. Where was this narrative of mediocrity coming from, and, more importantly, w
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Jungle-tastic Tales (epub file)
From the author of Inca-tastic Tales comes a new collection of short stories: Jungle-tastic Tales!Are you brave enough to join Yacumama, the Amazon's most humongous and powerful snake, on a once-in-a-lifetime trip? You are? Fab! Then grab your camera, mosquito net and raincoat, and LET'S GO!You're gonna travel through thousands of years of history and culture (a lot of which not many grown-ups know about!). For example, did you know...? - There were once huge cities in the Amazon rainforest.- Th
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Jungle-tastic Tales and Inca-tastic Tales
Intrepid Dudettes of the Inca Empire (epub)
Dive into a world of bold pre-Columbian women and goddesses!The book is my humble contribution to “herstory”- the history of women, the history of our foremothers, the women who made history yet were edited out of traditional textbooks. This is Inca history with the women edited back in, a book for anyone who is curious about historical women and ready to explore the world of powerful goddesses and strong Inca women, who lived before and during the Spanish Conquest. Well-researched historical re
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Also included in: Pre-Columbian South America Bundle (epub files)
Eid-ul-Fitr
This is a short text in e-book form on Eid-ul-Fitr, great for young learners, to be used on iPads (iBooks). The text is easy to read and explains sufficiently the event in question.
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1st - 6th
Purple Mountains & Wilderness: True Stories of the Great American West
Between 1840 and 1910, hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children from all over the world traveled deep into the underdeveloped American West, lured by the prospects of adventure, freedom, and opportunity all galvanized by the spirit of Manifest Destiny. Alongside this rapid expansion of the United States, a second, overlapping social shift was taking place: the rising status of women. In a settler society busy building itself from scratch, women and children had to compromise prior sensi
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4th Grade Curriculum QUESTIONS -Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, and Math
4th Grade - Comprehensive, Curriculum-aligned Questions and Answers Language Arts, Social Studies, Science and Math.Ebook! - Readable on any device - computer, phone, or tablet. Clickable Table of Contents with links to the Answers at the end! SEE PREVIEWWhy Ask Me Smarter? Because AMS provides parents and homeschool families with an all-in-one resource to further empower their kids with essential knowledge. Because AMS encompasses 2509 kid-engaging, curriculum-aligned questions and answer
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3rd - 5th, Staff
5th Grade Curriculum Questions-Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, and Math
5th Grade - Comprehensive, Curriculum-aligned Questions and Answers Language Arts, Social Studies, Science and Math.Ebook! - Readable on any device - computer, phone, or tablet. Clickable Table of Contents with links to the Answers at the end! SEE PREVIEW!Why Ask Me Smarter? Because AMS provides parents and homeschool families with an all-in-one resource to further empower their kids with essential knowledge. Because AMS encompasses 2723 kid-engaging, curriculum-aligned questions and answe
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4th - 6th, Staff
Preschool & Kindergarten Curriculum QUESTIONS -Core Content
Preschool and Kindergarten - Comprehensive, Curriculum-aligned Questions and Answers - Language Arts, Social Studies, Science and Math.Ebook! - Readable on any device - computer, phone, or tablet. Clickable Table of Contents with links to ANSWERS at the end!Why Ask Me Smarter?Because AMS provides parents and HOMESCHOOL families with an all-in-one resource to further empower their kids with essential knowledge. Because AMS encompasses 1188 kid-engaging, curriculum-aligned questions and answer
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PreK - 1st
1st Grade Curriculum QUESTIONS- Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, and Math
1st Grade - Comprehensive, Curriculum-aligned Questions and Answers Language Arts, Social Studies, Science and Math.Ebook! - Readable on any device - computer, phone, or tablet. Clickable Table of Contents with links to the Answers at the end! SEE PREVIEW!Why Ask Me Smarter? Because AMS provides parents and homeschool families with an all-in-one resource to further empower their kids with essential knowledge. Because AMS encompasses 845 progressive, kid-engaging, curriculum-aligned questio
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K - 2nd
Marauders, Misfits and Mormons: True Stories of Early Utah
Travel the Utah Territory wagon routes and learn some of the history of the Old West. Laugh, cry, and wonder while you read about familiar and unfamiliar characters, animals, and railroads.Discover why Butch Cassidy was called “The Robin Hood of the West”. Find out about Pancho Villa’s and Sherlock Holmes’ relationships with the Mormons. Read about John D. Lee ‘Pioneer Extraordinaire’. Follow the Donner Party and Brigham Young along with other characters who helped shape the Utah
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Uncertainty: A new look at an indeterminate world
f we asked you to name the towering achievements of 20th century science, you might point to relativity, genetics, the polio vaccine, and space travel. And of course you’d be right.
But science also made a different kind of breakthrough in the last century: it began to map out, in a precise way, what we could not know.
Think about that. The sophistication of our observations, and our thinking, had grown to the point that they could expose the limits of knowledge itself. We began to glimpse the
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Fight On! World War 2 and Cold War Experiences of Lt. Commander John R. "Jack" H
Fight On! puts the reader into the eye of the storm. Have a seat as Hitler gives one of his speeches. Arouse the ire of a German general in charge of a panzer division invading Czechoslovakia. Observe the political scene in Washington D.C. with some of the most important men of that day. Be there when Congress debates entering the war. Discover German U-Boats along the U.S.’s Atlantic and Gulf coastlines. Fly support for the Enola Gay on her historic, fateful flight. Learn of the Cold War from t
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: World War 2 and Cold War Lesson Bundle
Registered Nurse to Rear Admiral
The biography of one woman who became the first woman to reach an Admiral's rank in the US Navy which includes the many places where she served (worked) including being a nurse on the hospital ship that rescued prisoners of war in Japan. Thoughtful questions for students are available if you'll email me for those.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Inca-tastic Tales (epub)
This book broadens children's horizons and can be used for teachers to read to their class to introduce children to the Inca civilisation, for children to read to themselves or out loud to an adult and for parents to read to their children.Join the goddess Pachamama and the rainbow Cuychi on an epic journey through Inca-tastic history! You'll get to meet gods, goddesses, a magician, queens, kings, princes, princesses, kidnappers, warriors, conquerors, treasure hunters, explorers, heroes and 2 vo
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Inca-tastic Tales (Spanish & English)
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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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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.
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