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Earth Day social studies Common Core 2.MD.D.10 resources
Freedom Quilts - MINI UNIT
This freedom quilts mini unit is the perfect addition to your social studies curriculum with 4 different math connections!
This freedom quilts mini unit includes information pages to give students background knowledge on the underground railroad and the use of freedom quilts, printable of quilt patterns, and 4 different math connection printables. There are also book ideas to read aloud to your class on the topic!
The following are included in this product:
- 16 information pages (these can be
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1st - 4th
Cinco de Mayo Activities for 1st, 2nd, 3rd Grade
Wondering what you can do to commemorate this Mexican holiday, Cinco de Mayo? Well, look no further I have Cinco de Mayo activities to make your task easier and engaging! Here are activities for multiple subjects—social studies, writing, math, and vocabulary building. There is little preparation to save valuable teacher-time. Links to resources make content learning easy for you with a couple accessible for students. Content differentiation is easy with several of the pages and answer keys make
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1st - 3rd
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Kindergarten 1st 2nd Grade MATH SCIENCE SOCIAL STUDIES Boom Cards™ Mega BUNDLE
⚠️Purchase this GROWING BUNDLE and save over 66% off!⚠️ ️These Kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade MATH, SCIENCE, and SOCIAL STUDIES Boom Cards™ were made to make reviewing concepts engaging and fun for young students. This bundle includes currently includes 29 sets of science Boom Cards™, 46 sets of math Boom Cards, 25 sets of Social Studies Boom Cards™ and more! These were made with primary students in mind, but you can adapt it to your lessons to review the skills with third graders. So
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1st - 6th
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K-PS3-1
, K-LS1-1
, K-ESS3-3
, K-PS2-1
BUBBLE GUM - Integrated Mini Unit with Reading, Writing, Math, Science, and Art
FAMOUS INVENTIONS - BUBBLE GUMInspired by Meghan McCarthy's narrative nonfiction picture book POP! THE INVENTION OF BUBBLE GUM, this cross-curricular mini-unit is a really fun way to celebrate the famous treat invented by Walter Diemer, a candy company accountant who became an accidental inventor. The unit is designed to take 1-2 days to complete and includes a variety of engaging, hands-on lessons covering multiple subjects. It is perfect for:A Unit on Inventors or Famous InventionsA Genre Stud
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1st - 2nd
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2-PS1-4
, 2-PS1-1
Earth Day Graphing Craft
Are you looking for a cute Earth Day Craft that ties into math? This Earth Day resource combines tallying, graphing, and analyzing data with a craft page topper. This Earth Day Craft and Math activity is ✅ Simple✅ Engaging✅ Makes an easy hallway display ✅ Cute!How it works:Poll your students using a large whole class graph (graphing pieces and display sign included). Your students will graph based on their favorite ways to help the earth: recycle, conserve water and energy, or plant trees. Fr
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Math Graphing Craft Bundle
Vote | Mock Election | Classroom Voting | Voting Activities
Are you teaching about Voting or Election Day? With this hands-on voting activity your students will experience voting and counting the results. This will give your young learners a great understanding of how voting works! This classroom voting resource is EDITABLE! Your class can vote for anything that is relevant to your students and curriculum. Have your students vote for their favorite book character, the most fun recess activity, favorite subject, what to name the class pet, the possibilit
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1st - 2nd
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I Can Statements 2nd Grade BUNDLE for North Carolina
***UPDATED 9/6/21*** This product includes North Carolina I Can Statements for 2nd Grade with NC Course of Study Math, NC Course of Study ELA, NC Essential Standards Science, and NC Essential Standards Social Studies. There are three different size options; full page, half page, and a third of a page; to best meet your needs! This product has a colorful option with a black chalkboard background, white lettering, and rainbow colored dots. It also includes a color-saving option with a white backgr
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2nd
Project Based Learning: All About Me
The All About Me PBL Unit will guide you and your students through the entire PBL process:- Project Launch and Create Student Buy-In- Access Background Knowledge - Learn and Investigate- Product Planning and Design- Present/Reflect/EvaluateTeachers that are doing book buddies or math buddies, this PBL is for you! This Big and Little Buddy, “All About Me” project is for Kindergarten-Fifth grade classrooms, and comes with individual teacher guides and materials for K-1 (little buddies) and 2-5 (b
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PreK - 5th
Digital Earth Day Math Escape Room 2nd Grade Math Review for Google Forms™
This digital Earth Day escape room for 2nd grade utilizes Google Forms™ to give students a fun and engaging math review option during April. In this activity, students are tasked with helping the students in the story collect items to recycle by answering a series of challenge questions. All questions are presented as word problems.Standards covered:- 10 More/Less 3-Digit Numbers (2.NBT.8)- 1 & 2-step Word Problems (2.OA.1)- Arrays up to 5x5 (2.OA.4)- Length Word Problems (2.MD.5)- Time to t
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: 2nd Grade Math Review Digital Escape Room Full Year Bundle
Earth Day Unit in Spanish - Dual Language
This Earth Day Unit in Spanish is a 71 page file, CC aligned, that includes:-Earth day cause and effect---> It includes a close read in full color or black and white to fit your needs, and a cause and effect answer sheet. It also includes materials for a cause and effect anchor chart that you can use to model this strategy.-Earth day Fact and opinion---> This a great literacy center! Includes picture cards, answer sheet, and fact and opinion anchor chart for you to model this strategy.-Ear
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2nd
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Holiday Math and Reading No Prep Bundle | 2nd Grade Year Long Spiral Review
Holiday Math and Reading No Prep Bundle | 2nd Grade Year Long Spiral Review: Do you always find yourself scrambling around the holidays, trying to find engaging activities for your students? Let this bundle of No-Prep Holiday Math and Reading Activities solve your problem and make lesson planning around the holidays much easier! This No-Prep Holiday Bundle is loaded with common core aligned, seasonal activities that provide your students with tons of spiral review!You'll always be prepared when
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2nd - 3rd
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Earth Day Glyph for April Read and Color Glyph - Reading Comprehension and Math
These Earth Day glyph activities for April will have your students demonstrate reading comprehension as they color. They will show their understanding of how to reduce, reuse, and recycle! Teacher points include questions to ask to create a class graph. Reading and math skills are practiced with your first grade or second grade students. PreK and Kindergarten students love these glyphs too but I use them in small group instruction. Happy Earth Day!If you and your students like this glyph, click
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1st - 2nd
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Long Ago and Today Project Based Learning Unit
In this Long Ago and Today Project Based Learning Social Studies unit, students learn about GENERATIONS in the PAST by INTERVIEWING their ancestors, hearing from other people who lived long ago, learning about toys and games from the past, and COMPARING them to life now. Our current generation has lost touch with the past generation and this unit is a great opportunity to connect both all while learning about the past, reading, writing, and doing a little math. This is not a unit of worksheets,
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1st - 2nd
Earth Day Math Independent work Activities 5th Grade | Fraction Area & more
Practice fraction addition and subtraction meaningfully and celebrate Earth Day using this engaging independent work pack for 5th grade students! Perfect for mastering fraction addition and subtraction, area and perimeter of rectangles, multiplication and division, and word problems, these fun activities not only enhance their math skills but also increase a love for our planet. During the activity, each correct answer brings kids closer to math and make it fun. Ideal for classroom activities o
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3rd - 6th
Christopher Columbus Integrated Literacy, Math, and Social Studies Activities
Want to have fun teaching about Christopher Columbus while also teaching literacy, math and social studies standards? Then, this activity pack is for you! Using these resources you can integrate math concepts such as ordinal numbers, position words, tallying, counting, and graphing with literacy concepts like story elements, summarizing, researching and fact finding. I’ve also integrated map skills. Students can learn about the contributions of Columbus while also learning about cardinal dir
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PreK - 2nd
If the World Were a Village... Booklet
This booklet was created as a companion to the book If the World Were a Village by David J. Smith. The booklet has a graph that the students complete for each page of the book. This helps students visualize and internalized that data presented. The concluding activity is personalized way of bringing their new learning about our world home. Print pages front to back.
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1st - 4th
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2nd Grade End of the Year Activity, Second Grade May Math Review Centers
Use our May Themed Math Centers as: Math Bins, Morning Work, Morning Tubs, Spiral Review, Early Finishers & more!⭐ Save BIG when you purchase the YEAR-LONG bundles: 1st & 2nd Grade (80 seasonal & holiday activities)3rd Grade (160 seasonal & holiday activities)4th Grade (160 seasonal & holiday activities)5th Grade (160 seasonal & holiday activities)Math Activities Included:1. Flower Sort - Adding three 2-digit numbersCCS: 2.NBT.6TEKs: 2.4BFlorida BEST: MA.2.NSO.2.42. Gum B
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2nd Grade Escape Room Earth Day Math Activity
This Earth Day math activity for 2nd grade gives students a fun and engaging math review option during April. In this activity, students are tasked with helping the students in the story collect items to recycle by answering a series of challenge questions. All questions are presented as word problems. Each page comes in full page and 1/4 page options.Standards covered:- 10 More/Less 3-Digit Numbers (2.NBT.8)- 1 & 2-step Word Problems (2.OA.1)- Arrays up to 5x5 (2.OA.4)- Length Word Problems
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1st - 3rd
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Favorite Ocean Animal Graphing Craft | | Ocean Animal Graphing Math Craft
Are you looking for a cute addition to your ocean unit or perhaps for shark week? Check out this ocean animal themed graphing craft resource. Two graphing versions are included! Your students will love voting for their favorite ocean animals and then tallying, graphing, and analyzing the data. Top this fun activity off with the included student craft templates. Or choose the included print and go graph version. This Ocean Animal themed Graphing, Math, and Craft activity is ✅ Simple✅ Enga
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K - 2nd
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2nd Grade April Math Centers, Earth Day Math Brochure, Spring Math Activities
Use our April Themed Math Centers as: Math Bins, Morning Work, Morning Tubs, Spiral Review, Early Finishers & more!⭐ Save BIG when you purchase the YEAR-LONG bundles: 1st & 2nd Grade (80 seasonal & holiday activities)3rd Grade (160 seasonal & holiday activities)4th Grade (160 seasonal & holiday activities)5th Grade (160 seasonal & holiday activities)Math Activities Included:1. Earth Day Tri-Fold - Which One Doesn’t Belong, Color By Code, Word Search, Maze, and Number Puzz
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2nd
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Spin, Color and Graph April Spring Weather & Earth Day
Do your students need some graphing practice? This resource is great for center time or small group instruction.The student will use a spinner to determine the correct space on the graph to mark. When one column reaches the top of the graph, the spinner is set aside. Finally, the child will fill in the graph and answer the questions on the page.Additional materials needed: fidget spinner (or any spinner) and jewel case (optional). There are three spinner sets included (see preview):Spring Weathe
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Graphing Skills Bundle (April Edition)
Flip, Color and Graph April Spring Weather & Earth Day
Do your students need some graphing practice? This resource is great for center time or small group instruction. No additional materials are required.The student will mix up the cards and place them in a pile or container. Then s/he will flip the cards to determine the correct space on the graph to mark. When one column reaches the top of the graph, the die is set aside. Finally, the child will fill in the graph and answer the questions on the page. There are three sets of cards included (see pr
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Graphing Skills Bundle (April Edition)
Earth Day Pattern Blocks Puzzles Work Mats and Graphing
Earth Day Hands-On Activity - Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle!Work on those fine motor skills and engage your students in creating 10 different Earth Day pictures out of pattern blocks. Perfect for the month of April. Pictures are actual size so pattern blocks will fit directly on the mat. After building each pictures, students will count how many of each block is used to make the picture and create a bar graph to show how many blocks they used. This product contains four versions of 10 different Ear
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: Earth Day Activities Bundle-Geoboards, Snap Cubes, Pattern Blocks
Learning About the United States - USA Activities, Centers, and Learning Games
Learning about our country can be fun, and can practice other important skills as well. These activities are great for any patriotic holiday: Constitution Day, Election Day, Veterans Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Flag Day, or Independence Day. These activities also work well any time of year you want the children to learn more about their country. Why use this resource? People need novelty to keep life interesting. They can be taught about their country with lectures and "busy work," or the
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2nd - 3rd
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