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3rd grade test preparation social studies activboard activities for staff and administrators
State Testing Motivational Notes / Candy Encouragement Notes for Test Motivation
Candy Sayings for STATE TEST MOTIVATION TREATS! - Your students have worked hard preparing for the state standardized test. Why not reward and encourage them by using these motivational desk treats with candy pun messages? Students can be quite nervous and stressed on testing day and these candy motivational messages not only encourage them but the writing prompt also helps to put students in the right frame of mind. Your students will know you believe in them by reading the positive affirmati
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3rd - 6th
Testing Motivation for Students Test Prep Motivational Water Bottle Labels
Want to give your students a little extra motivation when it comes to standardized testing? Grab these motivational water bottle labels! These encouraging water bottle labels are a SIMPLE and EASY way to help give your students some motivation on standardized test days!These classroom labels include:15 different water bottle labels that are ready to print, cut, and tape onto any bottle of water.motivational phrase or picture on each to encourage your students!Color and black and white optionsThe
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3rd - 5th
Black History Bundle K-3
This bundle includes ALL of my primary Black History Units! Great for multi-age classrooms as these resources will give options for kindergarten- 3rd grade. All resources have been (or are in the process of being) updated to be accessible for virtual learning. Please see each product description below.
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K - 3rd
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein - Economics and Retelling Activities
Who doesn't love Shel Silverstein's beloved book The Giving Tree? The Giving Tree activities include literacy and economic social studies activities. It helps first grade kids practice retelling, sequencing and identifying the moral or life lesson of the story. The Giving Tree is also a great social studies content book for learning economic concepts like scarcity, choice, opportunity cost and resources. I love using this book around Christmastime to launch a class giving project!INCLUDED IN THE
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K - 3rd
U.S. Landmarks Worksheets & Activities - 2nd & 3rd Grade Geography Lessons
United States landmarks will come to life in your classroom with these fun and engaging hands-on geography activities! Your students will love learning all about important U.S. landmarks and tourist attractions with these lessons. This resource includes lesson plans, foldables, worksheets, vocabulary, materials for early finishers, homework suggestions and MORE. This print-and-go resource is the perfect addition to your 2nd and 3rd-grade social studies curriculum!⭐ SAVE 30% WHEN YOU BUY THIS PRO
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2nd - 3rd
IREAD Classroom Interactive Practice (4 Corners Game) Vowel Sounds
This is a fun activity to get students up and out of their seats to study for the IREAD test.
First, display this on a projectable screen in your room. Next, have the students get up and stand in the middle of the room. The students must read the sentence on the slide. They are given a sound in the word. They must say the word and find the word with the same sound. Then, they must move to the appropriate corner of the room that matches their answer.
This is a great way to study for IREAD!
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3rd
Community Service Projects - Project Based Learning
Community Service Projects - Project Based Learning
This product will be useful in helping you find ways to reach out to your community and help in doing for others.
I know that it is a goal of many schools to reach out to their local community and see how they can help others. These acts of kindness can make such a difference in the life of another.
Please use these pages to help get you started. Let me know if you have any other ideas and I will add them if possible.
Here is a look at th
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K - 5th, Staff
ELA Test Prep Citing Text Evidence Activity
Do your upper elementary reading students struggle with being able to cite text evidence? This ELA test prep resource is intended to help your grades 3-5 students prepare for any standardized test where they will have to cite evidence in their written responses. This activity will have your students interested and engaged the entire time.This high interest test prep resource includes:13-page kid friendly resource that will walk students through what citing evidence is, some examples to work thro
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3rd - 5th
Also included in: Test Prep Bundle Including Vocabulary Activities and Games
The Constitution, The Bill of Rights, and Responsibilities
Having to teach your students about government can be tough! This file will make it easier for you to teach and for your students to understand how our great country came to be as it is today. This file includes 3 student interactive books and a PPT to go along with it for you to use on your interactive board, interacitve flip-flaps, a booking making activity for the Bill of Rights, 2 vocabulary assessments, 1 fluency assessment, and 1 standards based assessment to help your students how to answ
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3rd - 5th
Native American Indians- The Best Power Point EVER!
This is a very informative power point. Great for a thematic unit on Native American Indians due to all the detail, visuals, and facts that it has. It describes each Native American region's climate, landforms, and natural resources. It also describes in detail each Native American region in terms of housing, clothing, food, transportation, arts and crafts, tools and weapons, religion as well as customs. Regions Discussed in depth:Southwest Native Americans (total of 12 slides)Plains Native
Grades:
1st - 5th
3rd Grade OST Ohio State Test Prep ELA Reading Literature Game AIR
Grade 3 Ohio's State Test - Put down the pencils and review for the Reading Literature and Narrative Skills portions of the Ohio Grade 3 Reading Test by playing a fun game! This is a Jeopardy style PowerPoint review game that is fully editable. It can be played by one child, or the teacher can lead the game and have the whole class compete in groups. Perfect to review for this Ohio State Test. All of the reading literature standards are included. Ohio's State Test for English Language Arts (
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2nd - 5th
Georgia 3rd Grade Economics Review Jeopardy Game-CRCT!!
Review game created to cover all of Georgia 3rd Grade standards dealing with Economics. Topics included are natural, human, and capital resources, entrepreneurship, saving vs. spending, taxes, banking, budgeting, goods and services. This is a great review for those tests coming up!!
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2nd - 5th
i-Ready Diagnostics Goal Setting - Student Data Chat Sheets (EDITABLE)
Sit down with your students to set goals for them with upcoming i-Ready diagnostic tests! Students become more motivated and more aware of their scores and their meaning when they set goals for themselves. I choose to sit down with my 5th graders at the beginning (BOY), middle (MOY), and end of the school year (EOY) to help them track their progress. We look at how they preformed the previous school year and aim to acheive their "typical" growth score as identified by i-Ready by the end of the y
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K - 12th
Georgia Social Studies | Me on the Map | City, County, State, Country, Continent
My Place on the Map - lessons for identifying and locating city, county, state, country, and continent - This geography unit is an interactive Google Slides Presentation (76 slides) with 18 accompanying B&W printable worksheet activities.This product is ideal for the early grades. This product includes an interactive Google Slides file that requires no extra materials for students to complete, though I have included black & white printable worksheets to go along with the slides. I plan t
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K - 3rd
KIDS Disability Awareness & Acceptance 17 POSTERS | Neurodiversity
Help spread disability acceptance and awareness in your Elementary or Middle School with this set of posters meant for kids ages 6-12! These posters will print clearly up to 3x the size of standard paper, and can be hung around the school, hung in a classroom, used for a disability event, used for training, used for disability awareness month, etc.! 17 high-quality posters included, created by and in collaboration with those in the disability community.Looking for the high school / staff versio
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1st - 8th
3rd Grade NC EOG Reading Literature and Narrative Game North Carolina Test Prep
End of Grade Reading - Put down the pencils and review for the Reading Literature and Narrative Skills portions of the Grade 3 Reading Test by playing a fun game! This is a quiz style PowerPoint review game that is fully editable. It can be played by one child, or the teacher can lead the game and have the whole class compete in groups. Perfect to review for this North Carolina State Test. All of the reading literature standards are included. Includes 25 mini-passages for reading literature a
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2nd - 5th
Also included in: 3rd Grade NC EOG Test Prep Math and Reading Games Bundle (6)
Supply and Demand Activities | Economics Activities | Limited Resources Activity
A fun way for students to explore Supply and Demand! This is a topic that our students have lived through, but haven't put the words to it. What a great opportunity to teach the way economics works and financial literacy. Students will also learn about Limited Resources and how weather and economics affects us. This unit is Printable and Digital.This unit will save you time as the lesson plans are step by step and all your need to do is print and teach or teach and assign (for digital). HOW IT W
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2nd - 3rd
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Theodore Teddy Roosevelt Social Studies | Google Slides & Worksheets
Historical Figure Theodore Teddy Roosevelt- Studying famous Americans or inventors? This Theodore Roosevelt unit includes 3 Google Slides Lessons with 7 accompanying worksheets. Students will learn about the Panama Canal, Teddy's Rough Riders, National Parks, and more!I make a point to use REAL photos in ALL of my science and social studies lessons! The beauty of using my science and social studies lessons to teach in the classroom is...you just teach straight from the slides, then hand out the
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1st - 3rd
3rd Grade Virginia SOL Reading Test Prep Reading Literature Review Game
Grade 3 Virginia SOL - Put down the pencils and review for the Reading Literature and Narrative Skills portions of the Virginia SOL Grade 3 Reading Test by playing a fun game! This is a quiz style PowerPoint review game that is fully editable. It can be played by one child, or the teacher can lead the game and have the whole class compete in groups. Perfect to review for this Virginia state test. All of the reading literature standards are included.Includes 25 mini-passages for reading litera
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2nd - 5th
3rd Grade SC READY Test Prep Reading Literature and Narrative Skills Review Game
Grade 3 SC READY - Put down the pencils and review for the Reading Literature and Narrative Skills portions of the SC READY Grade 3 Reading Test by playing a fun game! This is a quiz style PowerPoint review game that is fully editable. It can be played by one child, or the teacher can lead the game and have the whole class compete in groups. Perfect to review for this South Carolina state test. All of the reading literature standards are included.Includes 25 mini-passages for reading literatu
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2nd - 5th
Colonial America Jeopardy Review Activity
This Colonial America Jeopardy activity allows students to review Colonial America material in a fun way! Students are given the topics: New England, Middle, Southern, Vocabulary, and Misc to choose from. There are 25 review questions and a final jeopardy question included in this interactive PowerPoint. In my classroom, I print out the PowerPoint in slide format as an additional study guide for students, too!Included:- Interactive Jeopardy This jeopardy covers Georgia Performance Standards:S
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3rd - 5th
Also included in: Colonial America New England Middle Southern Colonies Unit Bundle
Tennessee State Standards K-3 Bundle- Teacher Binder Packet
Tennessee State Standards in ELA/ MATH/SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES for Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade.Calling all principals, administrators, coaches and teacher leaders......This bundle is a great tool to get your Tennessee teachers ready and prepared for the standards. Have these binders ready to go when school starts. These are perfect for report cards, RTI (Response to Intervention), data for PLCs, or PortfoliosThis packet includes all of the following for each grade:* Binder cover and sle
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K - 3rd
TELPAS Writing Prompts Digital Google Slides 2024 emergent bilinguals ELL ESL
These Google Slides are a must have for elementary teachers who are helping their Emergent Bilinguals prepare for TELPAS. These practice slides are similar to TELPAS and will help prepare your students to pass the written portion of the test. I created these digital slides as practice for my own students to use in the days before the actual test.⭐Get these popular STAAR Graphic Organizers I share the slides via Google Classroom, Schoology, or another LMS and the students will work on them during
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2nd - 6th
Lewis and Clark and Sacagawea | Famous Americans | Google Slides & Worksheets
Historical Figures Lewis and Clark, & Sacagawea - Studying famous Americans or inventors? This Lewis, Clark, and Sacagawea unit includes 3 Google Slides Lessons with 6 accompanying B&W printable worksheets. The slides teach about the Louisiana Purchase, the Corps of Discovery, and Lewis and Clark's expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase.I make a point to use REAL photos in ALL of my science and social studies lessons! The beauty of using my science and social studies lessons to tea
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1st - 3rd
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Importance of learning social studies
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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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