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1st grade Autumn social studies lessons under $5
Back to School Art Project : Kandi-Apples : In the Style of Kandinsky
Here is the perfect project for the start of the school year: Kandi-Apples.This project will allow students to create a work of art in the Style of Kadinsky.When they are finished, you can make a colourful collective display. This project requires simple materials, and apple models are also included. A great way to discover a fundamental artist. Level:Kindergarten to Grade 6Technique:DrawingVisual Language:Thick linesThin linesCurved linesMaterials:White sheet or piece of cardboard (8.5 x 8.5 in
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K - 6th
Also included in: Art Lesson Plans Bundle : Grade 1 Visual Art
Goods and Services Worksheets and Sorts with Producers and Consumers Activities
The goods and services plus producers and consumers materials in this resource were created to help students understand basic economics. These concepts can be difficult for young learners but these activities will help them grasp the ideas in a fun manner. Goods and Services Activities Included:- Anchor Charts for Goods, Services, Consumers, and Producers- Vocabulary cut and paste pages- Goods and Services cut and paste sort- Magazine cut and paste sort- Drawing Goods and Services - Listing Go
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Wants and Needs, Goods and Services Economics Bundle of Worksheets
TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE 2024 ACTIVITIES & ANNULAR ECLIPSE READER ⚫ 2 READING BOOKS
TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE 2024 READER FOR KINDERGARTEN AND BEYOND (+ BONUS ANNULAR SOLAR ECLIPSE VERSION) ⚫ 2 MINI READING BOOKS CONTAINING 9 & 11 PAGES + BOOK COVERSKids will surely enjoy reading these cute and informative solar eclipse books! This resource contains 2 simple readers about the total and annular solar eclipses in black and white. Simply print and go! Children can also color the pictures of the books while learning about solar eclipses. The books also explain the total and solar
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K - 3rd
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Craft and Activities
Are you looking for some fun activities to introduce Kindergarten and 1st Grade students to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr? I have developed this focus on how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Peacemaker. We talk about the difference between a Peacemaker and a Peacebreaker. Then, students write about how they can be a Peacemaker. There are several engaging activities in this mini unit for you.Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Craft Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Writing PromptsDr. Martin Luther King Jr. Peacemak
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PreK - 1st
Starry Night Pumpkins : Art Lesson Plan - Halloween - Fall - Autumn
Here is an art project that highlights the arrival of autumn while also discovering Vincent Van Gogh and other impressionist painters. Your students will create artwork with pumpkins/squash while using superimposition. They will work in the manner of the impressionists to colour their projects. The technique of using oil pastels and tempera paint gives an incredible result. Level:Grades One and upTechniques:DrawingPainting Visual Language:Warm and cool coloursDifferent kinds of lines : (curved
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1st - 8th
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Autumn Art Activity and Lesson Plan for Kids: Autumn Leaves
Fall is already at our doorstep! Why not celebrate it with magnificient colored artwork to put on your bulletin board?Level:This projet is convenient for everybody starting first grade. Kindergarten level can also do it with a little more assistance from the teacher. As for 6th graders, they can work harder on the pastel mixing.Technique:Drawing and paintingVisual language:Warm and cold coloursStraight linesVertical, horizontal and oblique linesRepetitionThick linesMaterials:Cartridge paper or w
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K - 6th
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Also included in: Art Lesson Plans Bundle : Grade 1 Visual Art
Continents & Oceans | Social Studies Lesson | PowerPoint & Google Slides
Your students will love this engaging mini-lesson all about Continents & Oceans, and you'll love that it's no-prep and ready to teach. Each lesson slide is meant to be projected on your whiteboard to guide short and sweet discussions about important social studies topics. Use these slides as a stand-alone lesson, or as a supplement to your existing social studies curriculumLesson Formats Included:⭐ PDF ⭐ Powerpoint ⭐ Google SlidesInside this Product is...21 no-prep slides that include:Video
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1st - 3rd
Also included in: Social Studies Lessons | PowerPoint & Google Slides | BUNDLE
Veterans Day Reader Fall Kindergarten & First Grade Social Studies
Grab this reader to teach your students about Veterans Day and the importance of the men and women we honor on this patriotic day in November! It is 10 pages and details Veteran's Day in a kid friendly way! The last page allows students an opportunity to answer text dependent questions to strengthen comprehension. You get two versions! The blackline version is great for your students to read, color and take home to share. The color version is perfect for projecting and reading whole group!Check
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K - 1st
Fire Safety Week Printables
Fire Safety Week - Printables for First and Second GradersFire Safety Week (USA) 2023, is held from Sunday, October 8th to Saturday, October 14th.You may also like ourFire Safety Vocabulary Mats with Record Sheets Center ActivityFor this mini unit, you will need access to the internet to read the story of Sparky the Fire Dog. Links are provided within the file. Students will respond to text in line with fire safety, fire awareness, prevention and also inferential and literal comprehension.Here'
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1st - 2nd
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My Place in the World Project: "Me on the Map" Geography for Kids
This hands-on geography project "My Place in the World" has kids create a visual representation of how we fit into the world. Teachers often use it with the kids' geography book "Me on the Map," by Joan Sweeney. Ideal for integrated Social Studies, ELA, Geography, Literacy, and Map Skills.Using a series of nesting circles to show the relative sizes of different geographic places, this simple but effective geography lesson helps kids sort out their relation to one another. This activity includes
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K - 5th
Also included in: Geography for Kids Bundle: Three Essential Hands-on Activities
Mapping Skills Reader for Kindergarten and First Grade Social Studies
Teaching mapping skills to your students? Need to help them understand key vocabulary: map, symbols, key, cardinal directions and compass rose? Grab this reader perfect to generate talks and discussions about what maps are and how they help provide information!Includes both a blacking version for your students to color and take home! Plus a color version to project and read whole group!Information included in the reader:maps are flatmaps tell information compass rose tells north, south, east and
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K - 1st
The Great Turkey Race Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Build a Turkey Obstacle Course in this Thanksgiving STEM Challenge! In the The Great Turkey Race STEM Activity, students design and build a Turkey Obstacle Course! An excellent companion activity to the Thanksgiving read aloud book The Great Turkey Race by Steve Metzger.The Turkey Obstacle Course STEM Project:Engage your students with the design process as they build a Turkey Obstacle Course. Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is t
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1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
Washington & Lincoln Timelines President's Day for Kindergarten & First
Teaching your kindergarten & first graders about the presidents in our history? Grab these presidential timelines specific for George Washington & Abe Lincoln! You are getting both! Each timeline has four events; just enough for young children in kindergarten & first grade to sequence/order. It's a great activity after reading any age appropriate presidential biography on either Washington and/or Lincoln. The Washington Timeline:He measured land.He got married.He was an Army General.
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K - 1st
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Where I Live - Social Studies Unit Activity
My place on the map is something primary students need a lot of time practicing in order to master the concept. Where I Live helps students understand where they live in relation to the planet, continents, state and city. It is constructed to show the relative size of each aspect of where they live, growing smaller as it progresses toward their city. In addition to the relative size of "my place on the map" activity, this resource includes activities that will allow students to further explore b
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1st - 2nd
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Red Ribbon Week Book for Kindergarten, First Grade, and Preschool
Red Ribbon Week Book for Kindergarten, First Grade, and PreschoolRed Ribbon Week activities for the lower grades are hard. How do you talk about drugs when students have such innocence about them? Simply Kinder figured it out! Great for being drug free and the best me!Get this in a BUNDLE and save 50%Themed Learning Journal Yearly BundleIncluded in this download:Included in this download is an interactive reader coving the concepts:putting healthy things in our bodieswearing red ribbonsdressi
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PreK - 1st
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Maps & Map Symbols | Social Studies Lesson | PowerPoint & Google Slides
Your students will love this engaging mini-lesson all about Maps & Map Symbols, and you'll love that it's no-prep and ready to teach. Each lesson slide is meant to be projected on your whiteboard to guide short and sweet discussions about important social studies topics. Use these slides as a stand-alone lesson, or as a supplement to your existing social studies curriculumLesson Formats Included:⭐ PDF ⭐ Powerpoint ⭐ Google Slides Inside this Product is...24 no-prep slides that include:Video
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1st - 3rd
Also included in: Social Studies Lessons | PowerPoint & Google Slides | BUNDLE
Seasons of an Apple Tree Craft
This apple tree craft is perfect to go along with your life cycles unit in the fall, or anytime! Kids will create their own apple trees to show how an apple tree changes throughout the year.Creates a fun and colorful display! Inside you will find:materials neededlesson & book ideas2 option of seasons pieces (fall and autumn are included)4 trees for craftDownload the preview for a better look!You might also like:One More, One Less with Johnny AppleseedFall Friends Scoot (task cards)Apple Mat
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K - 2nd
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Rules & Laws | Social Studies Lesson | PowerPoint & Google Slides
Your students will love this engaging mini-lesson all about Rules & Laws, and you'll love that it's no-prep and ready to teach. Each lesson slide is meant to be projected on your whiteboard to guide short and sweet discussions about important social studies topics. Use these slides as a stand-alone lesson, or as a supplement to your existing social studies curriculumLesson Formats Included:⭐ PDF ⭐ Powerpoint ⭐ Google SlidesInside this Lesson...20 no-prep slides that include:Video ClipsDiscus
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K - 2nd
Also included in: Social Studies Lessons | PowerPoint & Google Slides | BUNDLE
Wants & Needs | Social Studies Lesson | PowerPoint & Google Slides
Your students will love this engaging mini-lesson all about Wants & Needs, and you'll love that it's no-prep and ready to teach. Each lesson slide is meant to be projected on your whiteboard to guide short and sweet discussions about important social studies topics. Use these slides as a stand-alone lesson, or as a supplement to your existing social studies curriculumLesson Formats Included:⭐ PDF ⭐ Powerpoint ⭐ Google SlidesInside this Product is...30 no-prep slides that include:Video ClipsD
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K - 3rd
Also included in: Social Studies Lessons | PowerPoint & Google Slides | BUNDLE
Autumn Art Project: Tree in the Style of Wescoat
Here is a wonderful Autumn art project! Make a beautiful landscape in a few easy steps. Courtesy of the artist, I have included two of his works in this document. Level:Grade 1 and upTechnique:DrawingPaintingCollageVisual language:Curved linesRounded shapesWarm and cold coloursMaterials:Black markerWax construction paper crayons Black wax crayonsWatercolour paintsPaintbrushesWaterScissorsGlueConstruction paperThis document includes:An exhaustive step-by-step descriptions with photos.Two works of
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1st - 6th
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Also included in: Art Lesson Plans Bundle : Grade 2 Visual Art
Goods & Services | Social Studies Lesson | PowerPoint & Google Slides
Your students will love this engaging mini-lesson all about Goods & Services, and you'll love that it's no-prep and ready to teach. Each lesson slide is meant to be projected on your whiteboard to guide short and sweet discussions about important social studies topics. Use these slides as a stand-alone lesson, or as a supplement to your existing social studies curriculumLesson Formats Included:⭐ PDF ⭐ Powerpoint ⭐ Google SlidesInside this Product is...26 no-prep slides that include:Video Cli
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K - 3rd
Also included in: Social Studies Lessons | PowerPoint & Google Slides | BUNDLE
Past and Present- A Social Studies Now and Then Mini-Unit
Thank you for taking the time to look at my Past and Present Mini-Unit.There are 4 activities for teaching what life was like in the past and what life is like now.- Past and Present Pocket Chart Picture Sort- A Past and Present Cut and Paste Picture Sort- A Past and Present Emergent Reader (sight words this, is)- A Past and Present Flip Book You might also enjoy Turkey Math and Literacy Centers
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PreK - 1st
Johnny Appleseed Activities, Mini Lessons and Writing Craft
These Johnny Appleseed activities and writing craft make it fun and easy to teach about the life of John Chapman as you celebrate Johnny Appleseed Day! This resource includes a 4-day lesson plan with minilessons, class chart, prewriting organizers and knapsack writing craft. The perfect addition to an apple theme, your September back to school activities, and even your American folk heroes and tall tales units, your students will love guessing what’s inside Johnny Appleseed’s knapsack! There
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K - 2nd
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Ruby Bridges Craft Activity
Are you looking for activities that leave your students with a better understanding of Ruby Bridges? This Ruby Bridges craft and lap book does just that. The activities are easy to print and you will be ready to teach about Ruby Bridges immediately. The finished product makes a beautiful display for the hallway, classroom or bulletin board.Click here and SAVE 30% by buying all of my Research Projects in ONE Bundle.Click on the preview button to take a closer look at everything included.The unit
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: Research Project Bundle
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- Become active, responsible, and engaged citizens
- Comprehend global issues such as human rights, environmental sustainability, and economic disparities
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