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European Explorers: Age of Exploration, Voyages, New World Discoveries & MORE!
Looking for an easy-to-use social studies unit on early European explorers for your third, fourth, or fifth grade class? Look no further! Our unit is designed to take your students on an exciting voyage during the Age of Exploration, where they'll learn about and experience the journeys of early European explorers.Our engaging hands-on student activities, including learning centers, a review game, and unit assessment, are available in both printable and digital formats, making prep a breeze. Our
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3rd - 5th
Why and How Questions Inferential Reasoning Speech Therapy No Prep Boom Cards
This Boom Cards™ deck is perfect for teaching answering why and how questions regarding visual inferences and requiring inferential reasoning. It has 20 real-life picture scenarios with three cards for each scenario (1) the main photo with a draggable prompt guide on the right (2) open-ended boxes for answering why and how questions (how did you know?) and (3) a page for multiple choice in the field of 3 and draggable highlights to be placed on the clues.The breakdown of the deck is as follows:★
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Year One HASS Bundle | History and Geography | Australian Curriculum Aligned |
| FREE review/update to V9 Australian Curriculum, landing first half of '24. Buy in now to beat the price increase and get the updates free |This bundle includes all of your HASS planning for the entire year! It has four units that explore personal histories, past and present, features of landscapes, geographical skills and more. Featuring detailed lesson plans, PowerPoint slides, activity sheets and assessment; it has everything you need!Want free cover pages? Find them here: Free HASS Cover Pa
Grades:
1st - 2nd
American Revolution: Taxes, Boston Massacre, Tea Party, Battles & Events, & MORE
Looking for a comprehensive and engaging social studies unit for your third, fourth, or fifth grade students? Look no further! Our American Revolution unit has everything you need to make history come alive in your classroom.With a teacher guide, hands-on student activities (available in both printable and digital formats), learning centers, a review game, and a unit assessment, you'll have everything you need to teach your students about the causes of the American Revolution, major battles and
Grades:
3rd - 5th
PAPERLESS Daily Dendrite Challenge BUNDLE - Digital
This Year-Long BUNDLE pack of my Daily Dendrite Challenge series is a paperless, digital resource that includes a variety of brain-teasers, logical thinking questions, problem-solving challenges, riddles, and critical thinking activities for primary learners. The resource is NO-PREP and PAPERLESS! Simply project the calendar onto your screen, click on a challenge, and give your students’ brains some exercise! Each month features a theme and includes one challenge for every day of the month! This
Grades:
K - 2nd
Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month | Google Slides + PDF
Are you wanting to teach your students about Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month? Here is a perfect resource for you! This is an e-book and activities, including a map activity, a learning activity with videos, and a true & false activity! A .pdf version of the activities is included as well. You can feel free to add audio to the slides if you are using for distance/remote learning or this resource is perfect for use in the classroom. Happy AAPI Learning!Slides Included
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K - 2nd
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Indigenous Peoples' Day | Digital Google Slides + PDF
Wanting to teach your students about Indigenous Peoples' Day? This elementary-age appropriate Google Slides e-book also includes a true/false activity and a "history of the land I am on" activity. A .pdf of the activities is also included in case you want a printable version. If you are using this for Distance Learning, you can feel free to add audio so students can listen to you read the text as well!Pages included:-What is Indigenous Peoples' Day?-History of Indigenous Peoples' Day-When is Ind
Grades:
K - 3rd
Also included in: Holidays YEAR LONG GROWING Bundle
Martin Luther King Jr. PowerPoint Lesson for Martin Luther King Day Grades 1 2 3
Let’s Learn About Martin Luther King PowerPoint Lesson will help you present age-appropriate content to your students in first grade, second grade, or third grade. The animated PowerPoint with illustrations will keep young learners engaged as the text is read and discussed. It is perfect for use with a Smart Board or other interactive whiteboard; however it can be used without this technology as long as you have a computer and PowerPoint software. The final page of the PowerPoint includes li
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Making Inferences With Christmas Shopping NO PRINT Speech Therapy
Looking for a quick, NO PREP activity to get you through this busy season? Christmas Shopping Inferences is a great way to target mixed groups with Christmas Spirit in your Speech Room! This resource has a 5-star rating and is easy to use with TpT's Easel tool- both in the therapy room, classroom, or on the go!Each student is presented with a description of a person they might know in their family or community. Given "clues" about each person's interests or likes, your student is asked to pick
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Year One HASS: Past and Present | Australian Curriculum Aligned |
| FREE review/update to V9 Australian Curriculum, landing first half of '24. Buy in now to beat the price increase and get the updates free |This unit includes everything you need to teach a 'Past and Present' unit for Year 1 HASS for the entire term! Paired with my 'My Family & Personal History' unit, it is all of your history content covered. This particular unit focuses on exploring how things have changed over time, through comparing our daily lives with our grandparents or parents. Stud
Grades:
1st
Year One HASS Unit: Places and Spaces | Australian Curriculum Geography |
| FREE review/update to V9 Australian Curriculum, landing first half of '24. Buy in now to beat the price increase and get the updates free |This unit includes everything you need to teach a 'Geography: Places and Spaces' unit for Year 1 HASS...for the entire term! Paired with my 'The World Around Me' unit, it is all of your geography content covered. This particular unit focuses on exploring the local environment, while investigating natural, managed and constructed features. Student's explore
Grades:
1st
PAPERLESS September Daily Dendrite Challenge
The September Daily Dendrite Challenge is a paperless, digital resource that includes a variety of brain-teasers, logical thinking questions, problem-solving challenges, riddles, and critical thinking activities for primary learners. There is a challenge for every day of the month! The September Daily Dendrite Challenge has a back to school theme! It includes challenges that feature school supplies, back to school events, apples, school rules and routines, shapes, the classroom, math, word work,
Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: PAPERLESS Daily Dendrite Challenge BUNDLE - Digital
Chrome Music Lab Task Cards -Distance Learning
Looking for GOOGLE CLASSROOM compatible resources? Need fresh new ideas?Chrome Music Lab is a website that makes learning music more accessible through fun, hands-on experiments. FREE ACCESS 24/7. NO Download! NO Login.Just open https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/ andCreate, Perform and Respond while Connecting to technology and to other subjects. It automatically supports STEAM initiatives as well as the National Standards of Excellence. This file uses 4 components of the website with a so
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1st - 5th
Also included in: Chrome Music Lab - ALL 3 Task Card Sets + Bonus: Groove Pizza
Year One HASS | My Family & Personal Histories Unit | Australian Curriculum |
This unit includes everything you need to teach a 'My Family and Personal History' unit for Year 1 HASS for the entire term! Paired with my 'Past and Present' unit, all of your History content is covered. This particular unit focuses on students' families by exploring different family structures, roles and what makes families unique. Later in the unit, students start to compare family time and activities with those from the past (a perfect lead-in to my 'Past and Present' unit). Want to grab thi
Grades:
1st
PAPERLESS January Daily Dendrite Challenge
The January Daily Dendrite Challenge is a paperless, digital resource that includes a variety of brain-teasers, logical thinking questions, problem-solving challenges, riddles, and critical thinking activities for primary learners. It includes a challenge for every day of the month! The January Daily Dendrite Challenge has a winter theme and features daily questions, problems, and challenges! The resource is NO-PREP and PAPERLESS! Simply project the calendar onto your screen, click on a challeng
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K - 2nd
Also included in: PAPERLESS Daily Dendrite Challenge BUNDLE - Digital
BACK TO SCHOOL BOOM CARDS ACTIVITY KINDERGARTEN GAME GOOD & BAD CHOICES SORT
GOOD CHOICES VS BAD CHOICES BOOM CARDS GAME (BACK TO SCHOOL ACTIVITIES K-2)This fun digital game is perfect for back to school and is specifically aimed to help kids identify good and bad choices. It contains 34 playable cards and could also be used throughout the year to reinforce good and bad choices. Kids have to look at each picture, determine if the action depicted is a good or bad choice and click the corresponding answer (thumbs up for good choice and thumbs down for bad choice). This
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PreK - 3rd
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PAPERLESS October Daily Dendrite Challenge
This October Daily Dendrite Challenge is a paperless, digital resource that includes a variety of brain-teasers, logical thinking questions, problem-solving challenges, riddles, and critical thinking activities for primary learners. The October Daily Dendrite Challenge has a Halloween theme! It includes a challenge for every day of the month. The challenges feature themes that revovle around pumpkins, trick-or-treating, Halloween, fall, autumn, and more! The resource is NO-PREP and PAPERLESS! Si
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: PAPERLESS Daily Dendrite Challenge BUNDLE - Digital
Christmas Jeopardy! Christmas Trivia for Elementary!
Christmas Trivia Jeopardy! Kids will answer 25 Christmas trivia questions in this engaging, no prep Jeopardy game that is a perfect holiday party activity! Christmas trivia topics covered include Christmas songs, movies, traditions, foods, and the 12 days of Christmas! 25 questions reviewing thought-provoking facts are arranged in a colorful game board to give students a competitive game-like atmosphere ! Topics and point values are linked to corresponding questions and answers in an interacti
Grades:
2nd - 6th
PAPERLESS April Daily Dendrite Challenge Distance Learning
The April Daily Dendrite Challenge is a paperless, digital resource that includes a variety of brain-teasers, logical thinking questions, problem-solving challenges, riddles, and critical thinking activities for primary learners. There is a challenge for every day of the month! The April Daily Dendrite Challenge has a spring theme! It includes challenges that feature insects, bunnies, rainbows, recycling, Earth Day, butterflies, and more! The resource is NO-PREP and PAPERLESS! Simply project th
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K - 2nd
Also included in: PAPERLESS Daily Dendrite Challenge BUNDLE - Digital
PAPERLESS March Daily Dendrite Challenge
The March Daily Dendrite Challenge is a paperless, digital resource that includes a variety of brain-teasers, logical thinking questions, problem-solving challenges, riddles, and critical thinking activities for primary learners. There is a challenge for every day of the month! The March Daily Dendrite Challenge has a mix of themes such as nursery rhymes, St. Patrick's Day, reading, and books! The resource is NO-PREP and PAPERLESS! Simply project the calendar onto your screen, click on a challe
Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: PAPERLESS Daily Dendrite Challenge BUNDLE - Digital
Kindergarten CKLA ALIGNED Knowledge #6 Native Americans Supplemental Slideshows
PLEASE NOTE:**These materials are not designed to replace lessons or materials provided within Amplify/Core Knowledge (CKLA); they are meant to supplement the existing materials provided by Amplify Education Inc. and The Core Knowledge® Foundation.These interactive PowerPoints are aligned to Amplify Core Knowledge's (CKLA) Kindergarten Listening & Learning Strand, Domain 6, Native Americans. These slideshows are very colorful, interactive, and stay true to the curriculum. Over 800 slides!!!T
Grades:
K
MAP SKILLS US Geography GOOGLE SLIDES & BOOM CARDS 2nd & 3rd Grade Bundle
Are you a 2nd or 3rd grade teacher looking for an exciting way to teach and review map skills & geography? This interactive bundle includes both Google Slides and Boom Cards, so there are plenty of activities to keep them entertained. They’ll learn all about landforms, the equator, the prime meridian, hemispheres, latitude and longitude, continents, U.S. regions, world oceans, the compass rose, cardinal directions - all with lots of vocabulary thrown into the mix. If you want to excite your
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Decades Research Project Posters - Printable & Digital
Decades Research Project Posters are a fun and simple way for your students to research decades through history. These project posters are student friendly and help guide your students in what exactly to research. These posters are perfect for students to display their research! And they look fabulous on a bulletin board or hallway display!This is part of my HUGE GROWING BUNDLE OF RESEARCH PROJECT POSTERS. This is includes ALL of my research project posters. Your students could become research e
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3rd - 8th
Also included in: GROWING BUNDLE Research Project Posters
December 1st Grade + 2nd Grade Morning Work - 1st + 2nd Grade Writing Prompts
This December morning work product will save your mornings, your sanity, your time--you name it! Mess-less, stress-less, and (almost) paperless! A month's worth of morning journal prompts will engage your students, make them think creatively, and have fun! Also—each prompt has the option to play classical music to calm your students as they focus and write!Prompts are organized to cut down on teacher direction-giving time during the busy morning time. The electronic nature of the prompts creates
Grades:
1st - 2nd
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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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