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Math Logic Puzzles: 2nd grade Enrichment - [Digital & Printable PDF]
Math Logic Puzzles for 2nd grade includes 16 higher-order thinking puzzles designed to challenge and engage your high flyers and fast finishers. Your students will utilize critical thinking and problem-solving skills while building a solid understanding of essential math concepts and skills. These puzzles are available as a printable PDF and a paperless version made with Google Slides™ for virtual learning.Every activity is directly aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Math.--------
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2nd - 3rd
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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2nd Grade Math Faceoffs Error Analysis and Problem Solving
These print-and-go or digital problems ask students to solve a problem, find the error, explain the error and therefore decide who was correct! Each problem targets a misconception in mathematical thinking. By identifying and explaining the error, the misconceptions second graders often have should be addressed and rectified. This resource is broken down by strand. Operations and Algebraic Thinking - 10 problemsNumbers and Operations in Base Ten - 22 problemsMeasurement and Data - 20 problemsGeo
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2nd
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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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NGSS:
K-PS3-1
, K-LS1-1
, K-ESS3-3
, K-PS2-1
Guided Math Lesson Plans (Year Long - 2nd Grade)
A YEAR OF GUIDED MATH LESSON PLANS for 2ND GRADE!Over 648 Pages of Lesson Plans, Anecdotal Records Sheets, Vocabulary Pages and Graphic Organizers!This product includes 30 weeks of Guided Math Lesson Plans for the teacher and activities for the students! 26 CCSS Aligned and 43 TEKS Aligned Skills are broken down into 1-week segments (4 days each week with the 5th day being used as a “getting caught up day”) of lessons equaling 30 weeks!WITHIN EACH LESSON:• CCSS Skills (Or TEKS Skills) Binder Div
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1st - 3rd
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SECOND GRADE STRATERGY POSTERS ANCHOR CHARTS AND VOCABULARY WORD iREADY MATH
SECOND GRADE STRATEGY POSTERS ANCHOR CHARTS AND VOCABULARY WORD iREADY MATHThis set of 140 pages includes eye-catching Strategy Posters, Anchor Charts, and Vocabulary Posters for the full year that go along with the Second Grade iReady series or any other Second Grade math curriculum. These posters are great to hang in your classroom as a resource for your students to use daily to help reinforce the standards! The illustrations and instructions on each poster help students understand the learnin
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1st - 3rd
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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NGSS:
2-PS1-4
, 2-PS1-1
Math Enrichment and Project Based Learning Measurement and Data BUNDLE
These CCSS Measurement & Data project-based activities are a way to enrich your high-achieving students through independent work study, while you are able to focus on providing instruction and support to your on level and approaching level students. These high-level thinking projects incorporate reading and writing, and allow all students to stay actively working on the same standards as the instruction you are giving to the students who are still working on learning to measure, tell time an
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1st - 2nd
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End of School Year Escape Room | 2nd Grade Math | Digital Google Forms | Team
Please help us!!! It is the end of the year and we are on our class field trip, but we can’t find how to get to the zoo. Please help us get to the zoo. This is our last field trip and we are super excited.This is an escape room like activity in which students complete math tasks and use problem solving skills. Students are very EXCITED and ENGAGED when working through this activity. Students will have to solve problems and follow the directions in a scavenger like hunt working on math concepts a
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2nd - 3rd
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Spring Escape Room | 2nd Grade Math | Digital Google Forms | Team
Please help us!!! It has just turned spring time and someone has taken our honey. We are so hungry and need our honey. Can you please help us find our honey?This is an escape room like activity in which students complete math tasks and use problem solving skills. Students are very EXCITED and ENGAGED when working through this activity. Students will have to solve problems and follow the directions in a scavenger like hunt working on math concepts along the way. The teacher may need to help guide
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2nd - 3rd
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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
FREE | 2nd Grade Math | Fun Escape Room | Digital & Classroom | Teamwork
Would you please help us? We are trying to find the hidden pirate’s treasure. This Evil Pirate stole our village’s gold and we must get it back.This is an escape room like activity in which students complete math tasks and use problem solving skills. Students are very EXCITED and ENGAGED when working through this activity. Students will have to solve problems and follow the directions in a scavenger like hunt working on math concepts along the way. The teacher may need to help guide students on
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2nd - 3rd
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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
3rd Grade Back to School Math Review Escape Room - Back to School Activities
Are your students ready for something different to review their math skills? An escape room will have your 3rd grade students thinking critically and using teamwork while they work to solve challenging puzzles reviewing their 2nd grade math skills. This escape room is a perfect back to school math activity that will start your year off right!Click HERE to save by purchasing this resource in the Escape Room Bundle!What's included:Detailed teacher instructions to be able to set-up the game with ea
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2nd - 3rd
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Also included in: Math Escape Rooms Bundle
Project Based Learning Math and ELA Owning an Ice Cream Shop
Have a ton of fun with your students while they are learning beneficial 21 Century Skills using different math and writing strategies as they open their own ice cream shop! This product will allow students to go from start to finish opening their own ice cream shop. Students will create a business plan, determine how to brand their business, develop their own menus, calculate customer orders, complete inventory orders, figure out employee payroll and SO MUCH MORE!Students will use several differ
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Project Based Learning Bundle
Digital Math Escape Room BUNDLE
Are your students ready for something different to practice their math skills? A digital escape room will have your students thinking critically while they work to solve challenging puzzles using their math skills. Save money by purchasing this bundle, and have your students enjoy escape rooms ALL YEAR LONG! By purchasing this bundle, you are saving 20% off the total price of the individual products!This game is interactive and engaging and requires NO PREP! Just share the link with your student
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2nd - 3rd
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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
Valentine's Day Tower STEM Challenge
Happy Valentine's Day! Let's put our engineering and design thinking hats on to build the tallest towers using only jelly hearts and toothpicks. Students are asked to design a tower, get feedback from their peers and then work in a group to build their tower.
Included in this pack are:
Teacher Tips and Materials
Teamwork Tips
Design Paper
Reflection Questions
Graph
Check out my other Valentine's Day STEM Challenges too:
Candy Heart STEM Challenge
Valentine's Bag STEM Challenge
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PreK - 3rd
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Math Enrichment and Project Based Learning Task Cards for Using Data
These data project-based activities are a way to enrich your high-achieving students through independent work study, while you are able to focus on providing instruction and support to your on level and approaching level students. These high-level thinking projects incorporate reading and writing, and allow all students to stay actively working on the same standards as the instruction you are giving to the students who are still working on learning about using data.NEWLY UPDATED WITH STUDENT PAG
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in: Math Enrichment and Project Based Learning Measurement and Data BUNDLE
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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Easter Escape Room Easter Graphing Math Activity
Are your students ready for something different to practice their math skills this Easter? An escape room will have your students thinking critically and using teamwork while they work to solve five challenging puzzles using their graphing skills. Click HERE to save by purchasing this resource in the Escape Room Bundle!Watch your students' excitement as they solve each puzzle and open locks in an attempt to escape! Guide your students as they apply their graphing skills, and they won't even real
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2nd - 3rd
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Also included in: Math Escape Rooms Bundle
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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