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6th grade End of Year social studies games for special education

Preview of 5th Grade Math Review Game Show 5th Grade Math Test Prep End of Year Math Review

5th Grade Math Review Game Show 5th Grade Math Test Prep End of Year Math Review

Created by
Shelly Rees
This fun, interactive 5th grade Jeopardy style end of year math game will have your students begging for more activities just like it! Get ready for a fun 5th grade math review with the exciting, easy to use Math Mania Game Show. Perfect for 5th grade math test prep and last week activities!Click HERE to save 35% with the 5th Grade Math Mania Game Show Bundle for the Year!Click HERE for the End of 4th Grade Math Review Game.Please click on the PREVIEW button above to see how the game works!***
Preview of 5th Grade ELA Review Game Show 5th Grade Reading Test Prep End of Year ELA

5th Grade ELA Review Game Show 5th Grade Reading Test Prep End of Year ELA

Created by
Shelly Rees
This fun, interactive 5th grade Jeopardy style ELA review game will have your students begging for more activities just like it! Get ready for 5th grade reading test prep and even STAAR review with the exciting, easy to use Razzle Dazzle Reading Game Show.Please click on the PREVIEW button above to see how the game works!Click HERE for the 3rd Grade ELA Review Game.Click HERE for the 4th Grade ELA Review Game.See ALL the Jeopardy-Style Review Games HERE.This ELA review activity is super fun and
Preview of 5th Grade Math End of the Year Digital Escape Room Activity Fun Math Review

5th Grade Math End of the Year Digital Escape Room Activity Fun Math Review

When your fifth graders find themselves stuck in a time warp, can they use their math skills to break out and save summer vacation? In this fun year end digital escape room, your 5th grade students are tasked with activating a time machine so that the school year can end. They will solve clues to wire up a transmitter by adding fractions, build a landing zone by multiplying fractions, power up a generator by converting measurements, and much more. This activity is great to use in small groups in
Preview of End of Year Activities Jeopardy Style Game Show -2nd-6th Grade Distance Learning

End of Year Activities Jeopardy Style Game Show -2nd-6th Grade Distance Learning

Created by
Tiny Toes
End of the School Year Jeopardy style game show! Want to have some FUN on those last few days of school? Here is a suggestion: a GAME SHOW!! Five fun categories that will get your kids laughing, thinking, and up out of their chairs for a really good time. Make sure you have your camera ready! This download INCLUDES a copy for Google Classroom! Great for Distance Learning. The GC version does not include scoring and the point values do not disappear...this is just a limitation of Google Sl
Preview of 32 COUNSELING GAMES: 950 Questions to Turn Any Game Into a SEL Counseling Game

32 COUNSELING GAMES: 950 Questions to Turn Any Game Into a SEL Counseling Game

Save TONS of money with these low-prep 32 Counseling Games covering relevant social emotional learning topics. Plus, with over 950 color & number coded SEL questions and prompts, you can use any store bought game you already have and easily transform it into a SEL game!Draw a blue card, token, stick, or block? Respond to prompt in the blue category! Land on a green? Answer a green coded question! Roll the dice and get a 3? Respond to a #3 question!❤️ CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW TO SEE MORE! ❤️ W
Preview of "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?" Fun Trivia PowerPoint Game

"Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?" Fun Trivia PowerPoint Game

Created by
Ryan M Devlin
MY MOST POPULAR PRODUCT! - This animated POWERPOINT and Fun Trivia Game includes over 150 questions and 14 rounds of questions. All of the answers are included too! This is a great game to play at the end of the year or around the holidays. If you use all of the questions it would take OVER AN HOUR to play, but you don't have to use all of the questions. (This is a great download if you need a fun, educational game to play on a Friday, at the end of the day, or a day your lesson plan finishe
Preview of Save the Summer ELA Escape Room | Test Prep | End of Year Review

Save the Summer ELA Escape Room | Test Prep | End of Year Review

This end of the year ELA review escape room challenge is the perfect way to engage your students during the last few months of school, while still teaching the standards! This escape room is part of the Holiday Escape Room Bundle. Save $$ and time planning holiday celebrations by buying the holiday bundle today! Click HERE to check it out. This escape room uses Google Forms and Google Slides. Students drag and drop moveable pieces and type in pre-made text boxes in Google Slides for an interact
Preview of Ancient Egypt Hieroglyphics Escape Room Activity | Engaging Crack the Code Game

Ancient Egypt Hieroglyphics Escape Room Activity | Engaging Crack the Code Game

In this Ancient Egypt Escape Room activity, students are introduced to ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and are placed in the shoes of investigators as they seek to crack a mysterious code left behind by the ancient Egyptians. Student investigative teams have one class period to solve four clues, each written in hieroglyphics, then complete the final formula to crack the code. Students only have a set number of attempts to open the lock before the ancient lock deteriorates and remains jammed for
Preview of 6th Grade End of the Year Math Activity Digital Escape Room Fun Math Review Game

6th Grade End of the Year Math Activity Digital Escape Room Fun Math Review Game

When your sixth graders find themselves stuck in a time warp, can they use their math skills to break out and save summer vacation? In this fun year end digital escape room, your 6th grade students are tasked with activating a time machine so that the school year can end and they can escape school! They will solve clues to wire up a transmitter by combining like terms with distribution to create equivalent expression, build a landing zone by finding the area of a composite shape, power up a gene
Preview of Latitude and Longitude Battleship Game - Map Skills - Fun Geography Activities

Latitude and Longitude Battleship Game - Map Skills - Fun Geography Activities

Help your students practice their latitude and longitude skills in a fun and engaging way using this no-prep latitude and longitude battleship game! The directions are included right on the template, so this is a no prep activity that comes ready to play. I've also provided PowerPoint directions so you can show students how to play as a class. Students will become well-practiced with using a grid and making sure they always give latitude coordinates first. I've used this every year and my studen
Preview of How Well Do You Know Your Teacher? (Fun End of Year Activity)

How Well Do You Know Your Teacher? (Fun End of Year Activity)

Created by
Ellie Sherwood
This is a fun, no-prep end of year activity to see how well (or not well) your students know you! The students get to come up with creative responses to fun and engaging prompts.Depending on the age of your students, you can pick and choose which slides to assign. For the older kids, I've included prompts related to social media.
Preview of Team Building Escape Room with Logic Puzzles Critical Thinking Escape Room

Team Building Escape Room with Logic Puzzles Critical Thinking Escape Room

Engage your students with this Team Building Escape Room! This is great as a back to school escape room! This escape room is perfect for both the end of the year and beginning of the year. Students will be engaged and challenged with logic puzzles, codes to decipher, and more. There is both a full easy prep printable version as well as a Google(TM) form digital version for virtual or distance learning.This resource includes everything you need to implement a challenging and fun escape room fo
Preview of Escape Room Bundle for Social Emotional Learning | SEL Activities

Escape Room Bundle for Social Emotional Learning | SEL Activities

This bundle includes 7 escape room activities with interactive challenges related to coping strategies, executive functioning skills, growth mindset, managing emotions, and conflict resolution. Students work together in small groups to solve a variety of puzzles and challenges in order to discover the secret phrase to unlock the door and win the challenge in a specified amount of time. The first version is for small group scavenger hunts around the room while the second version allows you to hav
Preview of Speech Therapy Categories Game Articulation Activity Older Students Language

Speech Therapy Categories Game Articulation Activity Older Students Language

Created by
Stacy Crouse
Looking for an easy, NO PREP way to target ANY SPEECH SOUND in words, phrases, sentences, or conversation? Or maybe you need an activity to help your articulation students generalize? This game does all of that, plus targets LANGUAGE too! And the activity is fun for a range of ages– upper elementary, middle school AND high school students! Since 4 different lists are included (each with 12 categories), this game can be used across multiple sessions. There are two copies of the list on each page,
Preview of End of the Year Break Activities - Digital Resource Mystery Game - Team Building

End of the Year Break Activities - Digital Resource Mystery Game - Team Building

Are you ready to watch reading comprehension skills skyrocket before the end of the year break?! Great for team building! Students will work together to solve the mystery AND practice a variety of academic skills including; inferencing, critical thinking, problem solving, reading comprehension, and much more! The material is so fun and engaging, students won't even know they are actually learning! This activity can be used anytime of year and is a fantastic way to get students excited about l
Preview of Articulation Activity Speech Therapy Picture Searches Worksheets or Digital

Articulation Activity Speech Therapy Picture Searches Worksheets or Digital

Created by
Stacy Crouse
This is a SIMPLE and FUN activity to target articulation in speech therapy! The PDF contains SOUND-SPECIFIC picture searches that will CHALLENGE your students. They'll love this unique activity for something NEW and DIFFERENT to work on articulation in speech therapy.This game-like activity MOTIVATES students as they scan the page to find all of each item. You won't even have to ask them to practice the words, since reporting their answers will NATURALLY elicit the target words!With a total of 1
Preview of Classroom Scattergories | Community Building Activity

Classroom Scattergories | Community Building Activity

This Classroom Scattergories Game is a great icebreaker for the beginning of the year, a fun game for the end of the year, or perfect to play throughout the year! This resource includes both a printable and digital version. It can be played as a full class with the students playing individually or in pairs or teams that compete during each round. The game can be made as short or long as you want it, so it's also a fun time filler that keeps students thinking. It's great for sub plans, to use dur
Preview of Find Someone Who Bingo (Back to School and End of the Year) [EDITABLE]

Find Someone Who Bingo (Back to School and End of the Year) [EDITABLE]

Building and maintaining relationships in a classroom is one of the most important things we need to do as educators. In this activity, students will go around the classroom and ask their peers if they fit a characteristic of one of the squares. In this product, you will find 3 Find Someone Who activities for the beginning of the year and 3 Find Someone Who activities for the end of the year. Specifically, there is a general one, a math and reading edition. [EDITABLE] Customize this Find Someone
Preview of Social Emotional Learning Games and Activities Bundle

Social Emotional Learning Games and Activities Bundle

Practice social-emotional skills with games! These activities help for building empathy, perspective-taking, executive functioning skills, social communication, and social problem solving! Each game comes with a huge selection of student cards and activities so you can play the games again and again. How to PlayEach game includes its own unique student directions. The majority of the games include a simple student game board. Students will answer questions as they make their way through the game
Preview of Get To Know You Activity Ice Breaker Speech Therapy Connect with Others Original

Get To Know You Activity Ice Breaker Speech Therapy Connect with Others Original

Created by
Stacy Crouse
Out with traditional ice breakers, and in with a NEW activity to get to know and BUILD RAPPORT with your students... while targeting speech therapy GOALS at the same time! This simple and versatile game for OLDER students comes with 2 VERSIONS– print and digital.The game allows you to target tons of LANGUAGE & PRAGMATIC goals within a FUNCTIONAL activity, including:✅ Asking and answering QUESTIONS using appropriate syntax✅ Engaging in back-and-forth CONVERSATION✅ Asking FOLLOW-UP questions✅
Preview of The Great Depression: A Saving and Spending Game

The Great Depression: A Saving and Spending Game

Students work together in small groups to make decisions about how to save or spend their money during the Great Depression. They will see what it is like to have a well-paying job and then lose most of their money in the stock market crash of 1929. They will have to find a new job, a place to live (hobo camp or boxcar), and figure out how to provide for their family with very little.Students will have to subtract their bills from their total amount of money using a spending ledger (provided).
Preview of Types of Governments Straw Activity Simulation

Types of Governments Straw Activity Simulation

An interactive simulation to introduce the types of governments to middle-schoolers. Students get to compete with each other in groups to see who can build the best straw tower with straws and tape, but there's a slight catch: each group must build the straw tower how their assigned government would build it. This is guaranteed to be a fun activity that students will love while simultaneously learning about different types of governments!This Types of Governments Straw Activity includes:♦ Instru
Preview of End of the Year Activity Mystery Game for the Whole Class

End of the Year Activity Mystery Game for the Whole Class

The end of the year is the perfect time to pull out this mystery activity game. Students use the detective skills of listening and the process of elimination to solve the mystery of who took the test. Perfect whole class game, let the fun begin. This is the perfect time filler for the end of the year.Pull Out this Mystery Game anytime and have some fun. Great way to wrap up a mystery unit. Use this fun Holiday Party game to engage the whole class. This activity is great for keeping the class on
Preview of End of Year Activity Game Would You Rather Summer Activity

End of Year Activity Game Would You Rather Summer Activity

End the School Year on a Fun Note with This Exciting Activity! An end-of-the-year This or That icebreaker activity is just what you need to ease the nerves and bring some joy to your students. Whether they're introverts or extroverts, the entire class is going to love it – and trust me, you'll love it too! (In fact, I've even had teachers use this as a staff icebreaker during professional development sessions!)In this engaging activity, students will navigate through a series of slides, making c
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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.