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2nd grade social studies simulations $5-10
Election Day: Mock Election Voting Simulation (In-Class Election Kit)
Our future decision-makers are in our classroom today. It is critical that our students understand the voting process and recognize the importance of casting their vote. This civics lesson walks your students through the voting process with a mock election. Your students will learn key vocabulary, will participate in the campaign process, and will have a chance to cast their vote. This mock election can be used with ANY topic of your choice (favorite candy, book, best season, favorite sport, etc
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1st - 4th
Pioneer Unit / Oregon Trail Game
Do you love the game Oregon Trail? This unit includes a whole class version of the game!
This is a Problem Based Learning Unit all about the pioneers of our great nation. I created this unit for my second graders, but you could use it for older children too. This unit is very detailed. It integrates ELA skills, social studies, history, and provides the opportunity for creativity as well as FUN!
The children get to "go along" in the journey. This unit has three parts. Check out the Preview Fil
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2nd - 5th
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Ancient Greek Olympics Simulation - 8 Hands On Games!
Are you looking to FASCINATE your students through a learning experience that builds meaning about the Olympic games and entertainment of Ancient Greece? As History teachers, we have the opportunity to create experiences for our students to learn through creative experiential learning. Students love competition, and this learning experience has adapted to be a competition.Allow your students to DISCOVER ways the Ancient Greeks held the Olympics. I use this lesson to bring some extreme ENGAGEMENT
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K - 12th
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Primary Economics Unit: Wants, Needs, Goods and Services (Lessons & Activities)
It is never too early for students to begin learning about economics. This primary economics unit guides students through topics such as the difference between wants & needs, goods & services, producers & consumers, choice, cost & benefit, and saving & budgeting. This resource has been updated to include both print and digital options to save you time and prep! Find everything you need in one place.Please click the preview button for more details!What's Included::: Wants &
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1st - 3rd
Virtual Field Trip Bundle #2 Earth and Space Sciences
★ Virtual Field Trip Bundle! NGSS Earth and Space Sciences Edition ★1 Volcano - Kilauea, Hawaii2 International Space Station3 Moon & The Phases of the MoonVirtual Field Trips are an engaging activity for Zoom or on your projector in class. No matter the format of instruction, your students will be engaged! Use them as a preview to any science unit OR have the class work towards the reward of 'Field Trip Friday'!NO PREP! Just 'share your screen' and present the slides. ☺These trips are design
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1st - 5th
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1-ESS1-1
How a Bill Becomes a Law - Government Simulation - Congress (House/Senate) Vote
Let your students EXPERIENCE the important governmental process of drafting, presenting, debating and voting on a bill as it goes through the steps to become a law!Each student will take on a new persona as a REAL congressperson from a state in the USA. They will present their bill and debate bills from other committees, then vote in a congressional meeting! This experience is fun and memorable for students across the USA! Enjoy!Included in this set:Contents:How to Use this ResourceNote taking G
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2nd - 5th
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Economics Role Play: Consumers and Producers {NCSS Standard 7}
In this role play, there are eleven businesses under four categories (food, clothing, recreation and miscellaneous). Depending on class size, one student should be responsible for each business. Students that are not owners of businesses (producers) will be the consumers. One student will be in charge of headquarters. Business owners (producers) try to attract the most customers. Customers (consumers) try to complete shopping tasks and gather the most "task completed cards". This role play also
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1st - 8th
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Economics Simulation
This jobs bundle is just what you need to manage your classroom and teach a little Social Studies too! This product includes:27 Real-World Job Descriptions- can be printed six per slide and used for a classroom job bulletin board for next year tooFake Money- can be transformed with pictures of students, teachers or the class pet and printed for use in your simulation experienceJob Application Printable Definition Posters- for the content vocabulary words economy, goods, services, debts and credi
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1st - 5th
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BE A PILGRIM! Real-Life Bios from the Mayflower- Authentic Thanksgiving Activity
BE A PILGRIM FOR A FEW DAYS!This is a set of 30 short bios of real passengers aboard the Mayflower.There are 15 boy pilgrims and 15 girl pilgrims included.Assign each student a Pilgrim name and bio with the easy recording sheets. THE STUDENTS WILL LOVE IT! DIFFERENT FROM THE USUAL TURKEY DRAWING CONTEST OR TURKEY CRAFT. BRING IT ALIVE FOR THEM. Who were the people on the Mayflower?What were some of the most recognized and unrecognized pilgrim's names?How old were the Pilgrims?Who is Miles St
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2nd - 4th
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Editable Virtual Playroom
Editable virtual playroom for telehealth that can be adapted for school use as well! Add in your own bitmoji and personalize to your liking! Full of games for rapport building, memory and concentration, exploring family dynamics, and much more, books about emotions, and other resources great for play therapy such as a virtual sand tray!
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PreK - 5th
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My Occupation - A Personal Finance Project
This product serves as an introduction to personal finance. It is intended for small groups of students. There are seven occupations available for student to choose from, or be assigned by the teacher. Students are given a daily salary, as well as daily expenses. The rest of the project involves a surprise income, as well as two surprise expenses - some of which require students to dip into their savings account to pay for the expense. Also included are a check register for students to writ
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2nd - 5th
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Complete Mock Election Guide
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This comprehensive guide will set up your mock election for you!
With step by step instructions to guide you through every step of the process. Major sections include:
Candidate research paper
Preparing to register voters
Student presentations while registering
How to facilitate registration
Preparing candidate speeches
Candidate Cheat Sheet
Wrap Up activities
Setting up election day
Election workers' duties
Post Election Analysis ideas
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While this guide is tailored to
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1st - 12th
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Super Hero Election Unit
Looking for a fun way to teach Elections? Let Super Heroes save the day! This unit is designed with Step-by-Step instructions to help you through the Election process. Each step has a description of the lesson/task. I have also provided helpful information and resources for each step. You can use the unit with one class, a grade level, or an entire school! It can be used with K-5 students. Step by Step directions, resources, and reproducibles are provided for each part of the election process.
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K - 5th
Christopher Columbus - A Play
Christopher Columbus - Coming to the "New World" ---- A PlayMy 2nd grade students LOVE getting up and acting out plays. They are all about doing simulations of what happened long ago in history. There are 14 characters because I wanted all of my students to participate. Some parts I give to two different students. (If I have a struggling reader I partner them up with someone else to read a part.) This 6 page play is based on historical facts after I researched on line. The play begins with Chri
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2nd - 4th
Regions of Georgia Scrapbook Summative Assessment
This ZIP file contains ALL that you will need to create scrapbook projects with your kids as you virtually travel through the regions of Georgia. For each region, I have a journal page for kids, ticket and planning guide for you. I include websites and United Streaming video titles as well. I also have a rubric for the entire project and combining sentences activity. After we visited the 5 sights for a region, we would create scrapbook pages using materials that parents donated. Students ab
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2nd - 4th
Economics Simulation Unit
This is a student-centered, comprehensive 3-month, vocabulary rich unit for spring 1st grade through 3rd grade. Students receive a salary, pay rent and bills, buy luxury items, open bank accounts, earn interest, participate in an auction, and complete the economics cycle of production, distribution and consumption while selling goods and services in cooperative groups. Also included: a detailed and clear scope and sequence, a behavior management system, family letters, literature comprehension
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1st - 3rd
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Valentine King & Queen Persuasive Writing & Activity
Students will learn about the election process, making nominations, running a campaign, secret ballots, and writing persuasive speeches to convince voters who to crown as Valentine King and Queen as class leadership roles. This is usually done two weeks before Valentine's Day to run campaigns and write speeches. On Valentine's Day, they will read their speeches before the voting and then a class king and queen will be honored. There is also a fun craft to create decorative crowns.
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2nd - 5th
Economics: Buyers'/Sellers' Yard Sale
LET'S SHOP! LET'S BUY! LET'S LEARN! After teaching basic economic concepts/vocabulary such as producer, consumer, and scarcity, students become buyers and sellers at a classroom yard sale. Through this fun and hands on activity, the students will now be able to make a real life connection as they apply and use economic concepts/vocabulary.
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1st - 3rd
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Distance Learning: Virtual Adventures or Trips for Break
Send out this PDF to all of your students and families to send them on fun and exciting virtual trips! Perfect for distance learning, exploring, or options for spring/Easter/summer break. Your families and students will be entertained for days with all of these free, engaging and educational experiences. Have fun!
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PreK - 8th, Staff
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All About Digital Citizenship Goes Animation
“All About Digital Citizenship Goes Animation” takes the student and the teacher or the parent and the homeschooler into the “world of digital citizenship” and breaks down important concepts of digital citizenship into visually animated storytelling that is APPEALING for student’s understanding. This animation resources enhances the student’s knowledge about digital learning and helps students make smart choices online and in life. This resource can be used as a supplemental aid to a lesson on
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PreK - 5th
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Mock 2012 Presidential Election Voting Booth
This is a great mock presidential election program written in Excel. It notifies the voter that they have voted so the students can be sure their vote registered. It has a separate tab showing the voting tallies that can be easily reset if it being used for multiple classes. A final tab displays a 3D bar graph of the results. Both the tally tab and the graph tab can be toggled to at anytime. This is very user friendly and I am excited about using it in my classroom on Super Tuesday to let m
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2nd - 12th
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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
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