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2nd grade Back to School social studies centers
Back to School NO PREP Math and Literacy Packet (1st Grade)
This Back to School NO PREP Packet is filled with hands-on, engaging and FUN resources that get kids excited about learning! The activities in this packet can be used for morning work, homework, group work, centers and more! The best part is that there is NO PREP! NO costly closed ink, NO laminating, NO cutting…Just PRINT!SAVE BIG WITH OUR BUNDLES⭐:Preschool No Prep BundleKindergarten No Prep Bundle1st Grade No Prep Bundle2nd Grade No Prep Bundle3rd Grade No Prep BundleIncluded in the 1st Grad
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: 1st Grade Monthly NO PREP Packets THE BUNDLE Winter | Valentine's Day
Summer Reading Passages with Comprehension Questions Packet 2nd 3rd 4th Grade
Introducing our leveled reading passages with comprehension questions for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade! This resource includes 10 practice passages, answer keys, posters, graphic organizers, and more! Empower your students with a deeper understanding of nonfiction texts. Grab your summer reading comprehension packet now and witness the transformative impact on your classroom! This is designed for 3rd and 4th grade, but my own 2nd grader is advanced, and it would work well for him. I've also taught ti
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2nd - 5th
Back to School Writing Silly Sentences | Silly Rainbow Sentences
Writing sentences - Silly Sentences writing center for building sentences. Perfect for distance learning. There are Silly Sentences Writing Prompts for the entire year. Comes with BW and color options. Check out the feedback on the individual sets to see how other teachers have loved it. DIGITAL VERSION can be found HERE.☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆Bundle 2 is more challenging than set 1. Silly Sentences Bundle 2You can see the Themed Silly Sentences here: Themed Silly SentencesWant all 3 sets for a d
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in: Silly Rainbow Sentences Mega Bundle
Patriotic Coloring Pages w/ Designs for Memorial Day (and Other Occasions!)
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
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K - 8th
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Community Helpers Activity Craft
Community Helpers Build a community for your social studies community helpers unit with these cute and easy to cut templates. Students will have fun with this 3D building activity and creating a class book on community helpers. Students will enjoy adding their own details to these templates.Included16 Different community buildings craft28 Community HelpersWeb worksheet about community helpersWriting PromptsClass book coverReview printables See Preview!!!Great for Art Center & Writing Cen
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K - 2nd
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Digital Calendar Math - for Google Slides, PowerPoint, & Lumio - Calendar Math
Use this digital calendar math in your primary classroom setting or for remote learning. Pre-loaded onto Google Slides, PowerPoint, Easel by TPT, and Lumio by SMART. Also includes a printable practice sheet for students to practice/reinforce skills. Replace your wall calendar and save bulletin board space by doing all your calendar math digitally! This is a fun and interactive way to do calendar with students digitally each day. It is easy to customize the slides to meet the needs of your clas
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PreK - 2nd
Place Value Worksheets Color by Number | Color by Place Value Worksheets 1
Grab this Place Value Color By Number Activities set and help your students practice place value to tens, place value to 100, and place value to 1000. These place value coloring worksheets are perfect for differentiated review. Color by place value is an exciting spin on your typical place value worksheets!☀️ Click here to save 25% on my yearly place value coloring bundle perfect for spiral review!☀️ Save 20% on my 12 mini-bundle back-to-school place value coloring activitiesThis fun and engagi
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1st - 3rd
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Back to School Math Activities All About Me - Beginning of the Year Math
Looking for fun Back to School math activities? These activities focus on math related to your students. These 'All About Me' math activities are great for beginning of the year math as they explore numbers and math concepts related to the students. Great for the first math lessons of the year, first day of school math activities, 'getting to know you' activities with a math focus, first week of school math program. UPDATE: This Back to School Math Activities resource now contains 15 activities.
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2nd - 4th
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Digital Center Rotation Slides with Timers For Reading, Math & Management
Looking for the easiest way to organize your centers and rotation chart ALL YEAR? This it it! Simply display the slides on your screen or interactive whiteboard without printing, cutting, or laminating anything! There are dozens of options for reading centers, math rotations, morning tubs, early finishers, and more!Click on the preview to see everything included!➡️What is included?Easy to follow directions and tutorial videoFully editable group slides with 10 number and 10 color iconsFully edita
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PreK - 2nd
Author's Purpose - It's All About PIE - Anchor Charts
****This kit is now available as part of a money-saving BUNDLE! Check it out here (Click on the title): Save With A Bundle: Author's Purpose - All About PIE and Reader's Tool Box Get ready for the first day and week of school!
Updated to include a fourth optional poster for Explain. See preview file!
A fun way to introduce Author's Purpose to any grade level! I used the P.I.E. acronym (Persuade, Inform, Entertain) but took it to the next level by actually using pie as the text examples. P
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K - 8th
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Unscramble The Mystery Masterpiece | Fun Art History Activity & Great Sub Plan
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
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2nd - 8th
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Classroom Expectations - Character Traits Posters
These posters are a great reminder to students on what it means to have positive character traits!Included are color and matching black/white student posters.The color posters are for hanging in your classroom, hallways, bulletin board, etc. They are bright and easy to read. The black and white versions are EMPTY. They do not have the descriptions on the pages. They include the headers and clip art. The black and white posters are for students to write in their own descriptions of how they c
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K - 5th
DAILY PICTURE WRITING PROMPTS 2ND 1ST GRADE WRITING COMPLETE SENTENCE STARTERS
If you are looking for writing activities for your beginning writers, you have come to the right place! This resource includes 64 all year round writing paper sheets which help children learn to write complete sentences in a guided way.The 16 templates come in 4 versions to enable you to differentiate the activity according to your students' needs. 2 versions contain writing prompts (sentence starters) while the others do not so as to enable independent writing. 2 versions also come with a wr
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1st - 2nd
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Big Set of Pattern-filled Pop Art Coloring Pages incl End of Year, Summer Sheets
You can't miss with this large collection (60+) of my signature "Pop Art" pattern-filled coloring sheets to use all year long for grades PreK-2nd grade. Huge savings over buying these pages individually! This product is created for grades PreK-2nd.Coloring pages included for all holidays and seasons, including designs for Back to SchoolPatriotic (September 11, Veterans' Day, Memorial Day, July 4th)HalloweenFallThanksgivingChristmasWinter (including Penguins)Valentine's DaySt. Patrick's DayEaster
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PreK - 3rd
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Basic 2D and 3D Shape Posters
Cute 2D and 3D Shape Posters in Rainbow Scribble theme.This set includes 21 rainbow themed shape posters, it comes with 2 different sets one with attributes and without. Each poster has the shape name, image, and their corresponding attributes or without.Shapes included in this pack:2-Drectangle, circle, square, triangle, hexagon, pentagon, rhombus, diamond, trapezoid, octagon, crescent, star, heart, and oval3-Dsphere, pyramid, rectangular prism, cube, cylinder, cone, triangular prismIf you have
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K - 2nd
Also included in: Rainbow Classroom Decor Bundle | Bright Classroom Theme
Back to School 2nd Grade | First Week of School Second Grade activities
Have a fun first week of school with these second grade activities that are especially great for a 2nd Day of 2nd Grade celebration and will excite your students about being back to school! Engage your students in math, writing and word work second grade centered activities to celebrate everything 2nd grade while learning more about your students through their written responses.⭐ Click here to SAVE 20% with the 2nd Grade Back to School BUNDLE ⭐Each activity is perfect for centers or whole class
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2nd
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Conversation Starters Visuals Task Cards Social Skills
These conversation starters task cards are a fun and engaging way to encourage your students to start conversations, different ways to engage in a conversation and to improve their social skills. By having a variety of different prompt cards on hand you are encouraging your students to take part in conversations with others, but also providing them with the help/support that they may need to initiate conversations.This resource contains 104 different prompt cards to help and encourage students t
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: How to Set Up Your Autism Classroom | Autism Classroom Resources
Pattern Block Pictures Mats Zoo Animals Puzzles Task Cards
This is a set of 40 pattern block cards. Students will use pattern block mats to create zoo animals. There are 4 styles of cards for each animal to meet your differentiated levels. Two styles are black and white and the others are colored. The cards also have an option for students to count how many blocks they use and write the number. This is perfect for a STEM or STEAM center, math center activity, morning work and more.Click here for a HUGE discount on my pattern block animal bundle set
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: Pattern Block Mats Task Cards Puzzles
Writing Center (Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade)
Wanting to set-up a writing center for Kindergarten, 1st grade, or 2nd grade? This bundle has everything you need to set up a writing station for the whole year! It will provide a variety of resources for your students, so they never get bored of writing. Throw in some fun writing tools (pens, colored pencils, markers, gel pens, etc.) and this will become your student’s favorite center! ✔︎Check out the preview file to see what’s included and a picture of how I set up my writing center. You can a
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K - 2nd
Centers Rotation Slides with Timers - Small Group Rotation Chart Reading & Math
This Editable Digital Centers Rotation Chart is your solution for presenting your literacy centers, reading centers, or math centers using Powerpoint! These Digital Small Group Rotation Slides save you so much time! Instead of changing out center cards each day, build this Centers Rotation Powerpoint once, and project it for a quick and easy morning routine. The visual, digital display slides make it clear for students where they go and what they do. Your students will know which center to go t
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1st - 4th
Also included in: Digital Classroom Management Tools Bundle - Back to School
American Symbols Social Studies Reading Comprehension Passages K-2
Are you looking for an easy and fun way to integrate social studies into your reading curriculum?This pack of reading comprehension passages is the perfect choice! These reading comprehension passages cover 11 American Symbols. Each passage includes 2-3 questions to go along with the reading!Your students will read a nonfiction passage about an American symbol. Then, they will answer 2-3 questions based on the passage.The text is intended for K-2nd graders and can be read together as a class, in
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: Social Studies Reading Comprehension Passages Bundle K-2
Silly Rainbow Sentences Mega Bundle
This bundle is for all three of the Silly Rainbow Sentences sets currently available.Please read more about our Silly Sentences on the TpT blog.Back to school and beginning of the year activities writing center for building sentences. There are Silly Sentences Writing Prompts for the entire year. Comes with BW and color options. Check out the feedback on the individual sets to see how other teachers have loved it. ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆Bundle 2 has been added and is a bit more challenging than
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1st - 2nd
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Morning Tubs | Morning Bins Labels and Fine Motor Activities | Morning Work
Morning Tubs or Morning Bins are the perfect way for students and educators to start their day! Morning tubs can also be called morning bins, soft starts, STEM tubs, etc. Morning Tubs have replaced traditional paper and pencil morning work. It is a way for students to ease into their day while providing time for hands-on learning, fine motor skill practice, and socialization. Students are excited to start their day with something engaging and FUN! Educators can welcome their students and accompl
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PreK - 2nd
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Multiplication Number Posters, Multiples Posters, Skip Counting Posters
Multiples Posters, Multiples Skip Counting Posters, Multiplication Posters in bright and beautiful colorsThis resource has been recently (2021 ) updated after feedback I've received. Now it includes a black font version as well as reverse multiples version. WHAT IS INCLUDEDPosters with numbers and multiplesPosters with numbers with multiples and multiplication factsPosters with numbers with multiples and multiplication facts - multiples in reverese orderAll of the above with black fontBookmark
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2nd - 4th
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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.
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