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Social studies centers for Microsoft Word
Printable Money - Penny, Nickel, Dime, and Quarter
This is a printable page with coins (penny, nickel, dime, and quarter) sized at roughly the equivalent coin size in color. This can be used for money projects or for helping students to identify coins. In my classroom I have the students cut out the coins (practicing fine motor skills), practice making change, then glue the coins to a piece of paper for something they want to "buy". Also, if the money is printed in black and white, it can help students to identify coins by features other than co
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K - 4th
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Coyote Tales - Native American Reader's Theater
This package was intended for November which is Native American month but can be done at any time. My name is Melanie Whitesides but my store name is Wonbyone. One of the things I am passionate about is Reader's Theater. It is a fun way for my students to improve on their fluency. In a world where reading is pushed so hard on students that many are losing their love of reading it is IMPORTANT to give them opportunities to read that are fun. Reader's Theater does this. In this package I have plac
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Code Breaking - A Veterans Day Activity
Involve your students in a celebration of Veteran’s Day by discussing the integral role of encoding and decoding messages in WWI (e.g. the Zimmermann telegram) and WWII (e.g. the Enigma code), and then challenging your students to decipher three diverse messages.
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9th - 12th
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Slavery in Antebellum America: A Document Set Stations Lesson
Immerse your students in a primary source-based study of the lives of the enslaved during the Antebellum Era. Using seven different document sets of five primary sources each, students learn about the following aspect of slavery:Labor in the "Big House"Labor in the FieldsFamily LifeInternal Slave TradeReligionPunishmentResistancePrimary sources range from visual images to WPA interviews to slave narrative excerpts. [NOTE: some sources deal with difficult and violent content, thus the product is
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9th - 12th
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Entrepreneur Project- DIY: Open for Business
Entrepreneur Project- DIY (Do It Yourself) Open for Business: is multi-step, long term economics project for students of all abilities and varied grade levels to learn how to form a small business and become young entrepreneurs.
Students of all ages are very aware of the hard economic times that many are experiencing in the country, in their neighborhoods and even in their own homes.
This project allows students to see that with creativity, ingenuity, organization, hard work, dedication, m
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2nd - 12th
Reading Decoding & Social Studies Integrated 5E Lesson Plan
This is a Reading Decoding lesson plan that uses word origins, and root words to decode vocabulary in Social Studies. The lesson plan follows the 5E Lesson Plan model. The 5 Es are Engagement, Exploration, Explanation, Elaboration, and Evaluation. The plan uses poetry to enforce vocabulary, however, any reading passage can apply to this lesson plan. The lesson plan applies to Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) and the Common Core Standards. The lesson is designed for the average student
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2nd - 12th
Also included in: Reading 5E Lesson Plan BUNDLE
School: Then and Now
This is a sorting activity with 42 cards and 2 mats with pictures (side by side) of school elements from the past and today. Students will learn how each school element has changed such as room, uniform, books, teachers, lunchbox, discipline, etc. They will realize the extensive changes from their grandparents generation to theirs.
School: Then and Now by Maria Elena Morales is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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PreK - 2nd
Countries/Cultures: Compare and Contrast Graphic Organizer
Download the preview for a free uneditable version of the base template. The paid product is a .docx editable version which enables you to adjust directions and design elements of the product.
In this lesson students will research various countries and their corresponding cultures. Students will use the graphic organizer to collect information about the customs and people, nature and geography, clothing, and food of the country they are researching.
This product is meant to be paired with Nat
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3rd - 8th
Financial Literacy Game of Life
Students put their financial literacy skills to use in this game of life. Each group is assigned a job with a salary, fixed and variable expenses, opportunities for investment, gains, and losses. Students track their bank balance throughout and on a daily log. It gives students a realistic insight into managing family resources and they enjoy the game and competition aspect of the activity.
(Note: I suggest you start them with a Day One starting balance of $200).
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3rd - 6th
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Biography: John Muir - Reading Comprehension & Vocabulary Lesson w/ 14 Questions
This lesson consists of two pages of biographical information about conservationist, John Muir. For years John Muir explored mountains, forests, and glaciers, while keeping a journal of his thoughts and observations. From his notes, he wrote newspaper and magazine articles, and also ten books in which he called for the protection of natural environments and natural resources. His influence on two U.S. Presidents and the U.S. Congress led to the establishment of Yosemite National Park, Mount
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4th - 8th
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Jim Crow Laws Activity
This activity consists of 4 pages that teach the concept and understanding of the Jim Crow Laws. It includes:
* Two political cartoons and questions
* Sample of Alabama State Literacy test
* History of the Literacy test and questions
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7th - 8th
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Marco Polo Mini-Book
This mini-book is a brief overview of Marco Polo and the Silk Road including his accomplishments and influence on other explorers. It is intended for elementary children to support social studies, reading comprehension, and critical thinking. The pages can be copied front to back and then folded to create a mini-book to support a teacher's curriculum. Many teachers do not have access to social studies textbooks and this resource supports those non-fiction needs.
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2nd - 6th
The Flight of Icarus - Small Group Reader's Theater
This is a small group reader's theater is for 4-5 students. This is a Greek tragedy and is based on the story of Daedalus and Icarus. Daedalus is an inventor and very very smart. He builds King Minos a labyrinth and, after it is finished, the king decides to get rid of him. He locks Daedalus and Icarus in the labyrinth that Daedalus made him. Daedalus know the labyrinth well and he and his son escape. They go into hiding and come up with a plan to get away from the island where King Minos lives.
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4th - 12th
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Role Playing in the 3 branches of government
With this interactive group activity, students get to role play as the President,the Senator of their state, and a Supreme Court Justice! Students get to create their own bills, vote on what bills to pass, and pass their creations onto other groups to vote on!
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3rd - 5th
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Types of Government Posters
I created these posters for my social studies classes last year. Each poster features a different type of government and contains easy-to-understand definitions of each form. Posters also include images representing each of the following eight forms of government:*Oligarchy*Monarchy*Republic*Theocracy*Autocracy*Direct Democracy*Representative Democracy*AnarchyEngaging Activity Idea: I laminated mine, hung them around the room, and had students move to each of them in 2-minute increments (station
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5th - 12th
Reading & U.S. History Lesson THE LIBERTY BELL + 20 Comprehension/ Vocabulary Qs
This patriotic lesson teaches the history of The Liberty Bell, and explains why the bell is a symbol of American independence. It can serve as a U.S. History lesson in Social Studies class or as a lesson in Reading class which greatly enhances students’ reading skills.
After 2 pages of informational text, there are 20 reading comprehension questions divided into 3 sets. There are 6 multiple choice questions, 6 questions in which students number events in order, and 8 True and False questions. Re
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4th - 7th
Criminal Podcast Listening Guide with Answers- Ep 135: 527 Lime Street
This listening guide (questions with answers, along with discussion questions) in an editable .docx format goes along with an episode of Criminal, my favorite true crime podcast. Listen to the episode titled 527 Lime Street HERE. GREAT FOR REMOTE AND HYBRID CLASSROOMS!!!Episode 135: 527 Lime Street- Just before midnight on October 15, 1990, police arrived at 527 Lime Street in Jacksonville, Florida to find the small wood-frame house on fire. A man named Gerald Lewis was standing in the front yar
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Criminal Podcast Listening Guides - 10 episode bundle
The Mexican American War, a Primary Source Analysis Stations Activity
This primary source analysis activity focuses on the Mexican-American War. Students will select 4 of 6 primary sources to analyze. The primary sources range from maps, paintings, and speeches to treaties and political cartoons. These can be used as stations or as a full document for individual students to explore alone. This activity is a great one to use after a lesson on the war, such as the one featured in my store that explores both the war's geography and history.For a full overview of Mexi
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Mexico History and Geography Bundle of 22 Resources
Ancient China Achievements Hands On Activity
This lesson is a thoroughly experiential and engaging series of activities in which students actually produce some of the achievements of Ancient Chinese Civilization. Students print using a “printing press” made of block stamps, they produce paper, calligraphy and even a compass. They go around workstations in your classroom performing these activities. A worksheet is provided here with all the instructions students and the instructor needs. A sample station in which paper is produced is provid
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3rd - 12th
US History - Imperialism - American Foreign Policies Gallery Walk
The American Foreign Policies Gallery Walk includes United States foreign policies from the early 20th century when the nation had first emerged as a world power following the Spanish American War. This activity is great collaborative activity to get students up out of their seats and having academic conversations about Imperialism. The American Foreign Policies Gallery Walk provides a set up for 6 stations around the room along with a graphic organizer with questions for students to complete
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9th - 12th
Geronimo Stilton's Journey Through Time: Medieval Mission Reader's Theater
This is a reader's theater script adapted from the book, Geronimo Stilton: Journey Through Time: Medieval Mission.Geronimo and his friends travel back in time to help set things right in the days of King Arthur and Camelot. It is an easy to follow 12 page script that kids will enjoy reading and acting out. Enjoy!
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3rd - 6th
Redwood Trees: Giants of the Forest Lesson + 16 T/F and 5 Short Answer Questions
This lesson titled "Redwoods: Giants of the Forest" is one and a half pages of informational text followed by two pages of true and false questions along with short answer questions. The lesson explains: what gives them their red-brown color; why the trees are so huge in size; why they are so old; their height and which 3 trees are the tallest; how thick their bark is; what makes them fire and insect resistant; why they were valuable for lumber; why the goverment passed laws to protect the trees
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4th - 7th
Civil War: Robert E. Lee’s Surrender to Ulysses S. Grant READING-SOCIAL STUDIES
Here is a Social Studies / U.S. History / Reading Comprehension Worksheet about the Civil War. The title of the worksheet is “Robert E. Lee’s Surrender to Ulysses S. Grant."
On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to General Ulysses S. Grant during a 2 ½ hour meeting in the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia. This worksheet provides information about where the surrender took place and the terms of the agreement. Additionally, it tells how the two generals acted to
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4th - 8th
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AP World History | Exam Review Packet and Games | Time Periods 1-4 |10, 11, 12
The AP World History Exam Review Packet/Games for Time Periods 1, 2, 3 and 4 (Olympic Review) for 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students is a great editable resource for students to review for the AP World History Exam! This packet is designed to have students review and expand their understandings of the historical content and to work on their historical skills in preparation for the AP Exam. Students will like that they are able to organize and make new connections from their historical understan
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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