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Economics and History: Communism vs. Capitalism, the Rock, Paper, Scissors Game!
This highly interactive game gives students a hands-on, experiential understanding of the differences in between communism and capitalism. Students will learn more about the key components of communism, capitalism, and socialism.
Out of all of the activities that I do in my class, students probably have the most fun playing this game.
There is a reflection that follows the game, as well as a sheet that the students can fill out. After they have filled it out, allow for a discussion on the imp
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Sociology and Psychology Double Bundle (Content for 2 Full Courses!)
Consider the hundreds of hours of prep that two full classes take. Now consider having all the resources for both classes at your fingertips! This product includes all the resources you need for two full classes: Psychology and Sociology. These products cover all the major topics in each course, while also engaging games, simulations, and activities to stoke passion and keep your student's interests. These activities are highly rated on TPT and have been favorites since I started uploading my pr
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
Geography—World Religions: A Comparison Study on Judaism, Christianity, & Islam
An engaging and interesting comparison of the three great present-day monotheistic world religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. (INCLUDES EASEL ACTIVITY)Bundle & Save Here World Religions BundleTHIS LESSON INCLUDES:World Religions Chart (Student Notes)World Religions Chart (Teacher Guide)Venn Diagram (Student Notes)Venn Diagram (Teacher Guide)Aesthetic & Interesting Informational Handouts on Judaism, Christianity, and IslamTeacher Instructions (Lesson detail Introduction and Proced
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Bundle for Katrina- World Religions
stranded - a group survival simulation. Social Studies CCSS
Which people would you choose to start a new community with until being rescued? Who deserves to be saved?What’s more important: their character or their skills? Their past or their future?This simulation has been done lots of times in many different ways. Here’s my variation on it, complete with gorgeous graphics and some tongue-in-cheek humor with the names of characters.NOTE: I've used this activity with grade 4 all way through to adult friends at small group :)Apart from the cover page (S
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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"Crack the Code" Forensics Escape Room - Fingerprint Edition
"Crack the Code" is an escape room style activity for use in your forensics classroom or as part of any unit on fingerprinting. It contains 9 puzzles (plus a handful of bonus puzzles), covering the basic concepts of fingerprinting. Students must find hidden keys, use decoder wheels, and discover hidden messages to "Crack the Codes" and catch the crook! Solving the puzzles requires a knowledge of the basic types of fingerprints, ridge pattern characteristics ("minutiae" like bifurcations, enclos
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â Forensic Science Escape Room MEGA Bundle
ABA Card Game Applied Behavior Analysis Therapy Terminology BCBA Supervision
ABA Card Game Applied Behavior Analysis Therapy Terminology for BCBA Supervision and Study: Play this during small group supervision sessions, at work parties, during team-building activities, and so much more! This game is designed to help ABA therapists and supervisees have fun while practicing their knowledge of applied behavior analysis. If you are a BCBA, BCaBA, RBT, or are familiar with the field of ABA then this game is sure to give you and your coworkers a fun time. Better yet, you can u
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Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in:Â ABA Vocabulary Flash Cards Bundle with Applied Behavior Analysis Terminology
Financial Literacy & Personal Finance Video Game - HTML5 Distance Learning
Video Game about Personal Finance, Investing, Money Management, & Budgeting. An evidence-based, hand drawn visual-novel personal finance simulation game for High School and Young Adults that teaches financial literacy skills. Learn Asynchronously from home on any Computer, Smartphone, or Tablet:2 different ways to play: on any modern desktop/smartphone/tablet web browser, or install on any Mac, Windows, or Linux computer!Expected Student Learning Outcomes:Learn financial skills & content
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Murder Mystery Activity w/out the Murder Who Poisoned Willy Wonka
Who Poisoned Willy Wonka is an interactive classroom activity promotes collaboration, logic, inference, critical thinking, character analysis and fun in your classroom. Students work to solve a mystery involving some of the greatest literary characters of all time.This is a great group activity, classroom team activity, or center activity. It is a great way to introduce units on mystery, character, literature or just for a fun and engaging activity. It is also great for classroom parties or bonu
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Geography Game: Around The World (Countries and Continents)
Fun and exciting for all Ages - Middle School through High SchoolWhat a great way to review the geographical location of countries you study throughout the year! Students absolutely love countiries and continents Around the World game so much that they are disappointed that class is over. This world geography game has been played with my students throughout the year, usually at the later part of the year or end of the year, to reinforce students' recall of countries' geographical locations. As t
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â BUNDLE FOR ALICE
Murder on Mount Olympus: A Mythological Murder Mystery Party Kit
Murder at Mount Olympus: A Mythological Murder Mystery Party Kit, murder mystery games, clue party, kids mystery party, detective party**Available as a Virtual Party, see below**Host a mythological murder mystery! Also works well as a toga party. Great for Kid's Birthday Parties, Adult Parties, College Parties, Tween Parties, Classroom Activities, Office Parties, Social Groups, and more!Visit mystical Mount Olympus where the Greek gods and goddesses have gathered for a party. Students have the o
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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End of the Year World History Puzzles, Games, and Relay Activity
Want to review the content from your World History classes at the end of the semester or year?Want to have fun with your students in the last days of school?Need a review activity that will focus on content while still allowing students to have fun?This is a set of 7 word games for students to complete at the end of the year. Includes:CrosswordScavenger HuntMapping Word FindsCode SolvingThey can be used individually, or as a set for a relay team game activity. Students love to do this activity
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Senate: A Roman Society Simulation Game
Senate! Is a Roman take on the popular team building game Mafia. I typically use this activity to reinforce some of the vocabulary after students have learned about the structure of the Roman republic. It's also a lot of fun. The game is set in a Roman town during the early period of the Roman republic. Plebeians, consuls, a dictator, and an orator due battle against the conspiring Senate to restore peace to the town. The Senate is keen on "removing" their political rivals from the game.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
World Religions Matching Card Game Review Activity
World Religions Card GameIncluded are 36 terms or concepts on the 5 Major World Religions. I cut each in a strip, laminate the cards, and pass them out to my students as a review game. The students must take their card and match with their classmates to complete the characteristics of the religion. They then must tell me 3 more facts about the religion to win the competition. Great for review!Need a great resource to introduce the 5 major world religions? See this activity:World Religions C
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Whodunit? - Who Stole Dracula's Coffin? - A Classroom Mystery Inference Activity
Who Stole Dracula's Coffin? is an interactive classroom activity that promotes collaboration, logic, inference, critical thinking, character analysis and fun in your classroom. Students work to solve a mystery involving some of the greatest literary characters of all time. There are two versions included - one with a named thief and the second, where student consensus determines who committed the crime. Murder mystery game without the murder.This is a great group activity, classroom team activit
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â Murder Mystery, Reader's Theater, Games - Halloween Activities BUNDLE
World War II BUNDLE, WWII (American History Bundle), Print & Digital
World War II BIG BUNDLE, Print & Digital Distance LearningWWII Part A: Dictators Threaten Peace, War in Europe, The Holocaust, America Moves Toward WarWWII Part B: Mobilization on the Home Front, The War for Europe and North Africa, War in the Pacific, Impact of the War This unit includes links to engaging resource in Dropbox and Google Format as well as direct PDF downloads. INCLUDED: World War II Unit Lesson Plan Guide, American History BACK TO SCHOOLWorld War II Game Cards (I Have, Who H
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Classroom Murder Mystery: Murder in Gold Rush Gulch - 3 Games in One
This interactive classroom activity promotes collaboration, logic, inference, critical thinking and fun in your classroom. Students work to solve a murder mystery set directly after the California Gold Rush - and on the brink of the Civil War.This is a great group activity, classroom team activity, or center activity. It is a great way to introduce units on mystery, the Gold Rush of 1849 or even abolition. It is a fun activity for classroom parties or bonus time.3 Ways to Play - All engaging -
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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End of the Year Modern America US History Review Puzzles, Games Relay Activity
Want to review the content from your Modern United States History (American History) classes at the end of the semester or year?Want to have fun with your students in the last days of school?Need a review activity that will focus on content while still allowing students to have fun?This is a set of 7 US Review games for students to complete at the end of the year. Includes:CrosswordScavenger HuntMapping Word FindsCode SolvingThey can be used individually, or as a set for a relay team game activ
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7th - 11th, Higher Education
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Black History Month Music Bundle: Music History Lessons, Bulletin Displays, Game
This music bundle is a fully-immersive Black music history unit for middle school and high school students. Although bundle is music-related, it is also appropriate for general homeroom class lessons, social studies, history, and government classes.The history of the black community's influence on American popular music, classical music, and musical activism is a crucial story to tell, and gives students a more well-rounded understanding of American culture, the arts, and the human experience. R
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Murder Mystery Activity - w/out the Murder: Who Poisoned Sherlock Holmes
This interactive classroom activity promotes collaboration, logic, inference, critical thinking, character analysis and fun in your classroom. Students work to solve a mystery involving some of the greatest literary characters of all time.This is a great group activity, classroom team activity, or center activity. It is a great way to introduce units on mystery, character, literature or just for a fun and engaging activity. It is also great for classroom parties or bonus time.This resource inclu
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Fun Icebreaker for PD Staff Meetings - 90s TV Show Trivia Game - Team Building
A fun icebreaker game and beginning of new school year activity for teachers, back to school staff or faculty meetings, professional development PDs, and PLC meetings. Use with in-person or virtual trainings. Engage your staff and build morale!This resource is a fun way to take your staff down memory lane to see what they can remember about the cast members of their favorite 90s TV shows. The Name That Cast 90s TV Show Trivia Game will help you test your knowledge of some the most popular TV sh
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Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Israelite Wilderness Wanderings: The Exodus and Moses Board Game for Bible Class
The Exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt, led by Moses is one of the most legendary accounts in Scripture. The Israelites were enslaved by the Egyptian Pharaoh for hundreds of years and God heard their cry and sent Moses back to Egypt to lead the people to the land that he promised their ancestor Abraham.In this game, students will test their knowledge by answering a series of true and false questions and moving their game piece from Egypt, through the Sinai wilderness and up to the promised land.St
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Old Testament Bundle for Bible or Sunday School Class
Classroom Murder Mystery Activity: Frankenstein: Who Killed the House Maid?
This interactive classroom activity promotes collaboration, logic, inference, critical thinking and fun in your classroom. Students work to solve a murder mystery set right after Victor Frankenstein creates his monster. No knowledge of the novel is necessary; however, this is a great activity if you've read the novel.This is a great group activity, classroom team activity, or center activity. It is a great way to introduce units on mystery, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or just for a fun and enga
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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The History of Halloween: Close Reading Story and Crossword Puzzle Printable
Give your students a fun, engaging, and educational Halloween lesson activity! This product includes a one page History of Halloween Story, a Crossword Puzzle, and Clues! Your students will have the opportunity to learn and have fun at the same time! Perfect for the upcoming Halloween season! From one teacher to another, you deserve this!The Close Reading story begins with in the 2000s when the Celts of present day Ireland celebrated All Hollow's Eve during a three day festival called Samhain
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Black History Month Games Activities Trivia High Middle School Staff PD
Fun Black History Month or African American Studies trivia game, activity for high school and middle school students, teachers, virtual staff trainings or meetings, professional development or PDs and more! Identify famous Black athletes, Civil Rights leaders, and entertainers in the past, present, and future of Black History. This resource is a fun way to introduce a Black History unit/class, or just a way to incorporate African-American History into your lesson. Includes:Name That Person-Black
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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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.
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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.
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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.
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