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2nd grade Back to School social studies projects
All About Me Rainbows Back to School Activities
All About Me Rainbows are a back to school beginning of the year activity perfect for getting to know your students! This beginning of the school year activity will help you {and the class} learn about your new students and make your room bright and colorful.You will find out:how old your students aretheir birthday if they have siblings and their namesif they have pets and their namesfavorite colorfavorite foodwhat they want to be when they grow upfavorite animalfavorite bookfavorite subjectwh
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: Back to School Activities BUNDLE
Country Study Report & Country Research Projects Countries Around the World
Are you working on a country study in your classroom? Completing a country research project for one of the many amazing countries around the world can be such a great way to open your students eyes to the diversity of countries, peoples, and cultures around the world. This fun, fresh and engaging country report resource is the perfect DIFFERENTIATED way to meet each student where they are and guide them as they present their research on countries around the world. Complete with 32 countries from
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2nd - 5th
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Black History Month Activity Collaborative African American Biographical "Quilt"
My Famous Faces® of African-American History "Quilt" project is the perfect whole-class activity to do during Black History Month or any time of the year! It connects the individual with the group using hexagons that will tessellate to create a large “quilt” collaboration poster featuring 40 influential African Americans and their biographies. The final poster has a ton of “wow factor” when complete, and I hope it will make a large impact on your students as they learn about these 40 influential
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1st - 8th
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Also included in: Tessellation Bundle | Use one every month!
Project Based Learning Activity: Island Survival (PBL) Now for Google Classroom
Project Based Learning Activity: Island SurvivalThis project based learning (PBL) activity integrates elements of science, ELA, and social studies into a student-centered adventure that combines imagination, creativity, and problem solving skills as they try and survive mysteriously arriving on an island.There are 16 activities (1 page for almost each one) for students to complete. Each page involves a problem or idea they must solve, recreate, or answer. Pages can vary from writing, map skil
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2nd - 6th
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Biography Research Report Project Template, Google Slides, Digital, Any Figure
Students LOVE this digital biography research project! A ready-to-go biography report template that works with any historical figure or hero (research links included). Low prep and engaging! Students research their figure and use the biography template slides to create a unique Google Slides (or PPT) presentation (with an optional written report). Great for individual or group biography research projects!❤️❤️❤️ SAVE BIG with the Digital Research Projects BUNDLE!⭐️ PERFECT FOR >>>2nd - 5
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2nd - 4th
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Me on the Map Flip Book - Map Skills Geography Activity
This Me on the Map flip book is the perfect easy-prep project to accompany the book Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney or any beginner map study. Students will identify the planet, continent, country, state, and city or town they live in and begin to understand the relative sizes of each.Prep is simple! Copy a set of the included booklet pages for each student. Students write in the missing words, cut out each semi-circles, and stack them from smallest to largest. Staple the top to complete the fl
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1st - 3rd
Guess Who? Back to School Night Bulletin Board Display Writing Activity
This "Guess Who?" writing activity makes the perfect interactive back to school bulletin board for Open House, Back to School Night, or Parent's Night. This template is geared toward first grade, second grade, and third grade students.Students write 1-4 clues about themselves on the top portion of the paper. Then they either paste a photo or draw a picture of themselves under the mystery flap. Parents and classmates can read the clues to help them guess the identity of the writer. Once they hav
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1st - 3rd
Biography Research Project Graphic Organizer, Templates, Rubrics, Report Writing
Biography Report templates that can be used as a graphic organizer, lap book, or template for a biography project, such as writing a biography research report or summary on any historical person. It's a great resource for Black History Month, Women's History Month, and to make a wax museum project for second grade, third grade, fourth grade, or fifth grade.Students use graphic organizers, activities, and various report options for a biography report presentation or to complete a genre study of
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2nd - 5th
Black History Month Activities: Collaborative Posters BUNDLE Set 1 (w/ MLK Jr.)
Black History Month Collaboration Posters Bundle Set 1. This is the first volume of my Black History Month Collaboration Posters bundled together. There are five (5) people featured in this bundle: Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ruby Bridges, Booker T. Washington, and Barack Obama. These posters are great for ANY age or grade, as I have included several variations for each poster.My collaboration posters are easy for teachers and fun for kids and make a lasting impression—on students,
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2nd - 9th
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Map Skills Make Your Own Map Project with Map Worksheets and Map Activity
Create your own map using this fun, creative activity to learn about reading maps. Students love designing maps with towns, cities, parks, and islands. They complete practice worksheets and create their maps. This project based learning activity is a hands-on way to interact with maps.You receive:4 map worksheets - becoming progressively more difficult2 compass rose pages for students to complete (choose the level you need)6 different "Make Your Own Map" project pages to choose from3 differentia
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2nd - 4th
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Craft | Name Writing Activities | Letters | Coconut Tree
Are you looking for a craft to pair with "Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom," by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault? This Coconut Tree Craft is a great name building activity for back to school time. Students will enjoy working on letter recognition as they build their name and climb up the coconut tree! Click HERE to SAVE by buying this resource as part of my Book Crafts Big Bundle!Click HERE to SAVE by buying this resource as part of my August Book Club Bundle!Click HERE to SAVE by buying this re
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PreK - 2nd
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Three Branches of Government Tree Craft Activity + Flipbook
DaisyDoggy presents: "Three Branches of Government Tree Craft Activity + Flipbook."
This craft activity is a great way to introduce, teach, or assess student's understanding of the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of government.
Once all pieces of the tree are colored and cut out, the tree is easily assembled by gluing each set of "leaves" to its corresponding lined counterpart. This allows for students to lift up the leaves to reveal what they have learned about each branch. In a
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2nd - 5th
Me on the Map Circle Book {EDITABLE!}
This EDITABLE Me on the Map book is a great way for your students to understand about their place in the world!___________________________________________________________________________Included are both PRINTABLE and EDITABLE forms. THE EDITABLE VERSION OF THIS PRODUCT IS A POWERPOINT DOCUMNENT. YOU MUST HAVE POWERPOINT IN ORDER TO EDIT THIS PRODUCT.___________________________________________________________________________THIS PRODUCT INCLUDES: - Circle Books with blank spaces- Circle Books wi
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K - 4th
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Biography & Animal Report Pennant Research Project Informational Writing Bundle
This is the perfect bundle for helping your students creatively display their learning in a super fun biography and/or animal report! The Biography Report Pennant Banners come with over 250 amazing people of influence for displaying your learning about important people throughout history. Tired of the same old way to present your Biography Reports? Perfect for any time of the year, these pennants are a great way to supplement your Social Studies instruction as well as help your students organiz
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2nd - 5th
Our Class is a Family - Back to School Activity - Back to School Bulletin Board
The perfect Our Class is A Family back to school bulletin board activity! This beginning of the year activity contains everything you need to build community at the beginning of the year, PLUS make an awesome bulletin board! A great back-to-school craftitvity that your students will enjoy, and bring the halls to life. ⭐BUNDLE & SAVE ⭐️This back-to-school craft is a part of the CRAFTS FOR THE YEAR BUNDLE. Save over 30% AND get access to crafts for the entire school year! This product is mea
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PreK - 4th
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Also included in: CRAFT BUNDLE 4 | LOW PREP
1st Grade Social Studies Interactive Notebook Curriculum Worksheets 2nd Grade
Your students will love learning primary social studies content with this interactive notebook. This interactive notebook provides a fun and easy way to revisit and review new social studies learning. This resource includes 50 interactive projects, book recommendations, large pictures of each project with teacher directions, and a hyperlinked table of contents. Projects Included:Historical figuresGeorge WashingtonAbraham LincolnMartin Luther King, Jr.Christopher ColumbusRosa ParksRuby Bridgesbla
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K - 2nd
Wax Museum & Biography Writing Project
This item is a great tool to help students learn about researching, biographies, taking notes, and writing a multi-paragraph paper.You'll find everything you need to put on a wax museum as well! Items include:*a student tracking sheet to help you keep track of historians, assignments, and due dates*note-taking and rough draft pages for 5 paragraphs (these paragraphs include an introduction, early life, contributions, later life, and conclusion*final copy paper that includes a place for students
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1st - 4th
Geography Lapbook & Passages | Maps and Globes | Map Skills
This geography lapbook kit includes 11 PAGES OF INFORMATIONAL PASSAGES about maps and globes, hemispheres, lines of latitude/longitude, cardinal and intermediate directions, compass rose, continents and oceans, pangaea, landforms, bodies of water, plus black line masters and step by step photo directions for making a geography lapbook with your students. Also included, are 12 full color landform and bodies of water posters that match the images in the passages and lapbook. Use the geography lapb
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Social Studies BUNDLE: Interactive Kits
Back to School Math Crafts First Day Apple Bus August Bulletin Board Activities
These back to school math activities allow students to review addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division skills in a fun and engaging way! Perfect for a back to school bulletin board, this resource includes an apple craft, a school bus craft, and a backpack craft. **Be sure to check out the PREVIEW for a detailed look inside this resource.⭐Do you and your students LOVE math crafts? If so, you can save BIG with math craft bundles! Bundles are at least 25% off all the time! This resource i
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1st - 3rd
Helen Keller Craft | Braille Activity | Reading Passages
Helen Keller is the perfect role model to discuss during Women’s History Month, with any unit about communication, on January 4th for World Braille Day- really, anytime you want to inspire your students! In this packet, you’ll find:1. Braille Activity2. Helen Keller Craft3. What is Braille? Reading Passage & Questions4. Who was Helen Keller? Reading Passage & Sequencing Handout5. Writing Activities & Graphic Organizers6. Word SearchCurious? Learn more about this product by clicking h
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K - 2nd
Also included in: Helen Keller and Theodore Roosevelt Activity Bundle
Collaborative Veterans Day Craft Activity | Thank You Veterans Agamograph Poster
This year, you've got to try Art with Jenny K.'s Veterans Day 3D Collaboration Poster!! It is easy for teachers and fun for kids and makes the perfect Veterans' Day activity for your class! This project is a "3-way" agamograph (3 images spliced together) and a collaboration poster mixed into one. This project is unique because I developed it to combine my agamographs with my collaboration posters. And there is no beating the "wow! factor" at the end, when children walk back and forth to see the
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K - 8th
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Shark Tank Elementary Economics Project for Inventors and Entrepreneurs
Loosely based on the show, Shark Tank.... this is a great unit to use for late elementary and middle school students to learn economic terms while working through the planning process of designing a good or service as an entrepreneur. Includes planners for all steps of the process and links to Shark Tank snippets on YouTube as examples too! Thank you and enjoy! ⭐ CHECK OUT THE FULL PREVIEW ABOVE! ⭐ * Each section of the project below includes teacher directions * Links to Shark T
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2nd - 7th
Hispanic Heritage Month Poster Pennant Research Report Project - Bulletin Board
Empower your students to celebrate and learn with this Hispanic Heritage Month Pennant Research Report Project. Bring history to life in a fun, engaging, and meaningful way! It’s the perfect tool to generate eye-catching Hispanic Heritage Month Posters for your classroom and create a Hispanic Heritage Month bulletin board that’s not just visually engaging, but also meaningful and educational.As a dedicated educator, it can be challenging to find high-quality, engaging resources to celebrate Hisp
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1st - 6th
Writing Portfolio and Surveys - Monthly Writing Prompts - Data Collection
The perfect comprehensive writing portfolio for your young writers! Do you have trouble showing your students' writing progression in an organized and professional manner? This monthly writing portfolio for elementary students is my MUST HAVE item. Not only do the kids LOVE to see the progress they make throughout the year, but the parents literally shed tears at the end of the year when they get to see the completed portfolios! ⭐️ BUNDLE & SAVE ⭐️This writing portfolio is a part of the B
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K - 4th
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Also included in: Back to School Bundle
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