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8th grade social studies centers for special education

Preview of Decodable Passages for Orton-Gillingham Lessons BUNDLE

Decodable Passages for Orton-Gillingham Lessons BUNDLE

Quality decodable passages to support the Science of Reading are invaluable. When seeking materials to support your Orton-Gillingham lesson plans, The Literacy Nest has the decodable passages to support your students with a systematic, sequential progression. The Let's Read Decodable Bundle includes over 160 decodable passages that your students will love reading with success.Using a structured literacy approach, these decodable passages provide support for oral reading fluency and decoding prac
Preview of Cooking Life Skills Worksheets Special Education Activities Reading a Recipe

Cooking Life Skills Worksheets Special Education Activities Reading a Recipe

You will download a life skills worksheets packet for your special education students to practice reading a recipe and cooking. These life skills special education activities work well in your functional math and reading curriculum.Your students will be reading a recipe to make healthy cereal bars. It is a real recipe, so you may also use it with your cooking measurement activities. There are 20 reading comprehension questions about the recipe. Finally, using measuring cups and manipulatives (o
Preview of Patriotic Coloring Pages w/ Designs for Memorial Day (and Other Occasions!)

Patriotic Coloring Pages w/ Designs for Memorial Day (and Other Occasions!)

Created by
Art with Jenny K
American Symbols Patriotic Coloring Pages: This set of my interactive coloring sheets (with writing prompts) includes American patriotic symbols appropriate for:September 11thPatriot DayConstitution Day Memorial DayPresidents' DayVeterans' DayFlag Day4th of July...and any American history unit. Students add bold patterns to different Patriotic American symbols and then color their designs to produce a Pop Art-styled artwork. These coloring pages are fun, easy, and unique. It's a sure winner with
Preview of Unscramble The Mystery Masterpiece | Fun Art History Activity & Great Sub Plan

Unscramble The Mystery Masterpiece | Fun Art History Activity & Great Sub Plan

Created by
Art with Jenny K
Unscramble The Mystery Masterpieces. This is a great art history activity! In these unscramble grid activities, students are presented with a scrambled image of a famous masterpiece. Then each student works to unscramble the grid pieces to produce the final “unscrambled” masterpiece. These one-page mystery masterpieces can be…ColoredIncluded in interactive notebooksPaired with a research reportDisplayed on a bulletin board… or used in any other way imaginable! They are great for… Morning workEar
Preview of Ancient Rome Culture Daily Life Stations for Ancient Rome and Roman Empire

Ancient Rome Culture Daily Life Stations for Ancient Rome and Roman Empire

In this engaging Ancient Rome Culture Stations activity, students navigate through 10 different categories to understand a variety of aspects of culture in Ancient Rome. Students explore Roman Mythology, the Founding of Rome with Romulus and Remus, the poet Virgil and the Aeneid, Ovid, the Latin Language and other Romantic Languages, architecture, literature, "bread and circuses", gladiator games, chariot races, major achievements such as concrete, the Julian Calendar, aqueducts, the Roman the
Preview of Functional Math Worksheet Life Skills Money Math Telling Time Clock

Functional Math Worksheet Life Skills Money Math Telling Time Clock

Practice money math, telling time on an analog clock, and counting in increments all on 1 worksheet! These functional life skills are important to learn and review at any age. With 36 pages, this resource will last you 1 full school year if used once a week! Design and graphics are appropriate for all ages. This resource is ideal for gathering IEP goal data around functional math skills!Want the Canadian version? Click HERE! Want the Australian version? Click HERE!Read about why I created t
Preview of Ancient Mesopotamia Learning Stations, 3D Ziggurat, Mesopotamia Activities

Ancient Mesopotamia Learning Stations, 3D Ziggurat, Mesopotamia Activities

This resource contains six Mesopotamia learning stations that students can rotate through in small groups. Each ancient Mesopotamia learning station (or center) is designed to give students engaging and exciting learning experiences to practice, enrich, review, and enhance their learning. Students will visit each station with a small group and complete tasks and activities all about ancient Mesopotamia. Check this out! Students will create a 3-D ziggurat to showcase their learning. They’ll “bui
Preview of Ancient Egypt King Tut CSI Inquiry Activity for World History

Ancient Egypt King Tut CSI Inquiry Activity for World History

In this Ancient Egypt and King Tut CSI investigation, students analyze and use critical thinking skills to investigate the death of ancient Egypt's youngest pharaoh, King Tut. This CSI investigation is included in the Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia Bundle!Students are introduced to the background of King Tutankhamun, the role of pharaohs in ancient Egypt, the chaos created by his father Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten), and the mystery surrounding his death. Students investigate possible murder motives
Preview of Life Skills Math Distance Learning Daily Special Education IEP Goals

Life Skills Math Distance Learning Daily Special Education IEP Goals

Finally....IEP goals simplified! I've made this packet to streamline the IEP writing process, giving you more time to teach the skill. This 91 page unit focuses on 11 pre-written IEP goals that you can copy and paste into an IEP. This packet uses one warm-up question each day to teach basic life-skills math concepts. Each day of the week in a two-week cycle has a dedicated skill that is taught, so you can assess all the students in your class, even if they are working on different IEP goals. See
Preview of Yes or No: Answering questions  Autism | Speech & Language

Yes or No: Answering questions Autism | Speech & Language

This set will help you systematically teach, assess and target generalizing the ability to correctly answer yes or no questions with students. Students will learn to answer yes or no questions and will have a variety of ways to demonstrate and practice their skills. This life skills and communication-based set is already differentiated for you. The tasks and visuals in this set are varied to help your students practice in different ways and learn to generalize their skills.WHO IS IT FOR?Students
Preview of Life Skills Centers | Life Skills Curriculum and Activities | Special Education

Life Skills Centers | Life Skills Curriculum and Activities | Special Education

This bestselling full year Long Life Skills Bundle is the perfect way to implement a life skills curriculum center to your special education classroom! This comprehensive resource gives lots of time to practice and generalize skills, this bundle focuses on one skill per month for 12 months. Click HERE to save 20% by purchasing this resource as part of the FULL Life Skills Curriculum Bundle (includes 9 Life Skills Resources)WHAT SKILLS ARE INCLUDED IN SET 1?- Matching Socks- Setting the Table- Wa
Preview of Differentiated Writing Curriculum- Level's 1-7 (Discounted Bundle)

Differentiated Writing Curriculum- Level's 1-7 (Discounted Bundle)

What's Included? Check out the video preview by clicking HEREThis Writing Through The Year Daily Journal Bundle is designed for beginning writers. There are seven levels of Journal pages included. 180 student Daily Journals come in 7 designs. The seven designs included are cut and paste, tracing, boxes, copying, fill in the blanks, build a sentence and independent. Students can progress to the next level Journal Design at their own pace. Every day teachers are provided a sample to post and use
Preview of LIFE SKILLS Sequencing Mats® for Special Education

LIFE SKILLS Sequencing Mats® for Special Education

Sequencing Life Skills!!These Life Skills Sequencing Mats are a great way to teach life skills and how to sequence and complete a multi-step task and they target numerous skills. Plus, you'll love the organization...no more missing or little pieces to keep track of!There are a total of 12 mats for 4 and 5 step sequencing. There are four 4-step sequencing mats and eight 5-step sequencing mats. Each mat includes step-by-step sentences that use transitional words to help students sequence the even
Preview of Map and Globe Skills Worksheets (6th, 7th, 8th Grades)

Map and Globe Skills Worksheets (6th, 7th, 8th Grades)

Your students will love reviewing map and globe skills with this engaging, no prep worksheet packet! It's great to use during the back-to-school weeks. Plus, it’s so easy to use that you can even leave it for sub plans or homework packets!Resource Includes: 12 worksheets & answer keysCardinal and intermediate directionslatitude and longitudegrid maps: reading & creatingphysical maps: reading & drawing conclusionsgraphic scales: to determine distancesmap keys: to acquire informationAn
Preview of Recipe Reading Comprehension Worksheets Set 1 Life Skills and Functional Reading

Recipe Reading Comprehension Worksheets Set 1 Life Skills and Functional Reading

Here is a set of worksheets to practice reading comprehension of recipes. Practice life skills in your special education classroom while working on reading comprehension. Included in this product are 10 recipes plus 2 worksheets for each recipe. Both recipes and worksheets include 2 levels: written and with pictures. The texts are the same for each level, but one level includes pictures in order to aide with comprehension. It's a great way to use environmental print to practice reading com
Preview of Touch + Count Math: Single Digit Addition + Subtraction PRINTABLE + DIGITAL

Touch + Count Math: Single Digit Addition + Subtraction PRINTABLE + DIGITAL

These are two full curricular resources that are packed with everything you need to get your students adding and subtracting numbers from 0-9! Some of our learners require an extra step when adding and subtracting. These resources give your learners extra support by adding dots to numbers and then quickly fading them to reduce dependence. The scope and sequence of these resources are structured to build on each previously mastered skill, ensure discrimination, and gradually increase in complexit
Preview of Holidays Around the World Agamographs | Unforgettable Christmas Craft Activity!

Holidays Around the World Agamographs | Unforgettable Christmas Craft Activity!

Created by
Art with Jenny K
Christmas Around the World Agamographs. What's an Agamograph?! It's a picture that morphs into another image when you look at it from a different angle. Agamographs are super fun and contemporary activities to easily integrate art into your classroom. There is a huge "wow factor" in this art activity—the students love the surprise. And best of all, they did it themselves!!It's hard to say but easy to do! I strongly recommend this for grades 3 and above.Use this activity for your anticipatory set
Preview of Simple Math Adapted Books for Special Education | Print + Digital

Simple Math Adapted Books for Special Education | Print + Digital

These best selling math skills adapted books are designed to directly teach basic math skills in the special education (self-contained) setting. Books can be used to introduce topics and independently practice skills. 7 adapted books are included in this set. The best part? You can laminate to reuse year after year, saving you time and money.WHAT'S INCLUDED?PRINT + DIGITAL VERSIONS:- 1:1 Correspondence to 20- Basic Coin Matching and Identification- More or Less- Big or Little- Patterns: AB patte
Preview of Task Box System Labels | Special Education

Task Box System Labels | Special Education

TASK BOX SYSTEM LABELS FOR INDEPENDENT WORK SYSTEM This task box system is simple and perfect for special education classrooms. Includes 168 card options! The system keeps all of your task boxes organized and ready to use. It also promotes independence for students to follow a visual schedule and retrieve their own boxes. It helps students learn matching skills such as shapes, numbers, colors, and letters. WHAT'S INCLUDED? 18 shape labels24 number labels (teal)24 number labels (coral)24 number l
Preview of Scientific Revolution Stations Activity & Mini Labs: Digital Resources & Print

Scientific Revolution Stations Activity & Mini Labs: Digital Resources & Print

This completely Google-ready or paper classroom content-rich activity is student-centered and interactive! This masterminds of the Scientific Revolution reading and mini-lab stations activity has 9 stations with close readings, analyzing key scientists and innovations. The key scientists covered:Renee Descartes Isaac Newton Galileo Kepler Francis Bacon Tycho BraheCopernicusStudents also prove Isaac Newton's law of gravity with a simple classroom supply-based experiment and use the scientific met
Preview of Renaissance Tour of Italy Stations Centers Activity- Print & Digital Resources

Renaissance Tour of Italy Stations Centers Activity- Print & Digital Resources

This content-rich activity is student-centered and interactive! The activity has 10 stations with a Renaissance vocabulary activity and close readings detailing the roles of key cities, leaders, artists, and contributions to the Renaissance economy, including the Medici family, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Milan, Florence, Venice, Brunelleschi's Dome, Marco Polo, Genoa, and Rome. Students pin their location on a paper iPhone for a current geography activity!The readings include pictures, cha
Preview of Executive Functioning Skills Printables for Students (Life Skills/Autism/SPED)

Executive Functioning Skills Printables for Students (Life Skills/Autism/SPED)

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Autism Classroom
Students need executive functioning skills but resources are scarce. Students with special needs need these skills as well. Here is a solution. See the preview for examples. Over 100 positive reviews!!! These are Executive Functioning Skills Printables for Students with Autism, Similar Special Needs, ADHD, LD and Executive Functioning Needs. Thank you in advance for your feedback.These executive functioning skills printables will work well for any students learning life skills whose special nee
Preview of 30 Days of Basic Fractions | No Prep | Special Education

30 Days of Basic Fractions | No Prep | Special Education

Give your students repeated practice with basic fractions! Use ready-to-go pre-and post-tests, worksheets, activities, and task cards to give students fraction practice using half, third, and fourth units. This 30-day unit is completely planned for you - save time with no prep. The worksheets give options for cutting and pasting and circling items instead of writing answers - making them great practice items for students with a range of abilities. What You Get In This No-Prep Unit: Pre-testPost
Preview of Calculating Income to Pay Bills Budget Activity. Math Worksheet & Boom Cards

Calculating Income to Pay Bills Budget Activity. Math Worksheet & Boom Cards

Do your students need help understanding how their hourly wage job will (or will not) be able to cover their monthly expenses?  Stretch the budgeting skill beyond restaurant orders and shopping costs to real-life situations, monthly bills!Have students calculate their monthly income and decide if it’s enough to cover their bills with this worksheet practice activity (and Boom Cards). Also check out this resource- Calculate how many hours to work to afford something!About the resource:Students wi
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Find Social Studies - History resources | TPT

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.