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Kindergarten social studies Common Core CCRA.L.6 resources
Maps and Globes Worksheets - 1st Grade Map Skills - Kindergarten Mapping Skills
Introduce and teach kindergarten and first grade students all about Maps and Globes, Cardinal Directions, Landforms, and Bodies of Water using this fun and engaging geography unit! These map skills worksheets cover landforms, oceans, relative directions, maps, globes, map keys and symbols, compass rose, Venn Diagrams, 24 geography words, and let your students design their own maps. These maps and globes activities are designed to use with ANY social studies curriculum!Students will practice, cre
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K - 1st
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Veterans Day Craft and Writing Activities - Veterans Day Soldier Craft
Give your students Veterans Day activities and crafts to help them remember and honor the men and women who keep the United States safe and protected. This LOW PREP Veterans Day craft and activities packet includes a soldier craft, nonfiction student booklet, branches of the military teaching vocabulary cards, and writing activities for your students to give to Veterans. Kindergarten, first, and second grade students will use these simple and easy to use activities to remember and honor all bra
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K - 1st
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Kindergarten CKLA ALIGNED Knowledge Colonial Towns Supplemental Slideshows
PLEASE NOTE:**These materials are not designed to replace lessons or materials provided within Amplify/Core Knowledge (CKLA); they are meant to supplement the existing materials provided by Amplify Education Inc. and The Core Knowledge® Foundation.These interactive PowerPoints are aligned to Amplify Core Knowledge's (CKLA) Kindergarten Listening & Learning Strand, Colonial Towns & Townspeople. These slideshows are very colorful, interactive, and stay true to the curriculum. Over 900 slid
Grades:
K
Kindergarten Social Studies Unit: My Family
This product has been updated! Here is a list of the full contents:- Cover- Terms of Use- Table of Contents- Pre-Assessment- Post-Assessment- 5E Lesson Plans- Vocabulary Posters- Student Vocabulary Cards (color and B&W)- Student Worksheets- Teaching Tips- Student Mini-Book (color and B&W)- Review Game- CreditsThis product now has every single component you need to spend approximately 1 week teaching about Families with a pre-assessment, 3 days of plans, and a post-assessment. There is a
Grades:
K
Also included in:Â Kindergarten Social Studies Growing Bundle
Kindergarten Social Studies Growing Bundle
By purchasing this bundle now, you gain access to all current and future Kindergarten Social Studies Units/Mini-Units posted to my store. The price of this bundle will increase every time that a new resource is added. To preview individual unit contents, please select a unit from the list below and open the preview file on that page.This download contains multiple PDFs. If you have a question about the file type or what this download contains, please let me know.
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K - 1st
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Community Leaders at Home School and Community - Authority Figures Task Cards
Teach your students how to be good citizens by following rules and laws at home, school, and in their community using these NO PREP and interactive authority figure activities! This is a set of 40 DIGITAL and PRINTABLE Authority Figures Task Cards and Boom Cards. These Community Leaders Authority Figures at home, school, and in the community are interactive, fun, and can be used with ANY social studies curriculum!You will guide your students to discover how to be good citizens by following the r
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PreK - 1st
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Kindergarten Social Studies Unit: Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow
Please check out the video preview for a quick look at the included student pages or visit this >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>FULL VIDEO PREVIEW<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<on YouTube to really get a close up look of every piece of this unit.This product has been updated! Here is a list of the full contents:- Cover- Terms of Use- Table of Contents- Pre-Assessment- Post-Assessment- 5E Lesson Plans
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K
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NGSS:
K-LS1-1
Also included in:Â Kindergarten Social Studies Growing Bundle
Leadership Worksheets Home School & Community Authority Figures Worksheet Sorts
Do your kindergarten and 1st grade students need simple and easy to use practice and review activities for identifying authority figures at home, in school, and in the community? These NO-PREP Authority Figures Sorts Worksheets help students review authority figures and their jobs by looking at pictures to sort, cut, and glue where leaders/people have authority at home, school, or in the community. These supplemental social studies worksheets go GREAT with ANY social studies curriculum!Learning
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PreK - 1st
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Social Studies Economics Money Bundle First Grade
This social studies bundle makes economics come alive for your primary learners through these fun and engaging books, games, worksheets and songs! Students will be able to make great connections from Community Helpers to Goods and Services then to Wants and Needs. Each unit builds on each other with daily lesson plans.We just added our featured TPT Money Bundle to include 4 resources in this economics mega bundle! These four comprehensive units are the perfect way to teach your young students
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K - 2nd
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Community Helpers PowerPoint Guessing Game - What's My Job
Your students will love this fun and interactive community helpers game. This is a PowerPoint game of "Who Am I?" Students get three clues to guess the job of the community helper. There are 14 different workers represented. Students have to figure out who it is from clues about where they work, what they wear, what vehicles they drive, and what tools they use. Fun for review or assessment in kindergarten. Project on your whiteboard or Smartboard or use it at a computer center. No prep. Easy to
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PreK - 1st
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Long Ago and Today - Then and Now Kindergarten and 1st Grade Centers
Practicing Then and Now will be fun and interactive for your kindergarten and 1st graders to learn about life Long Ago and Today! These 40 DIGITAL and PRINTABLE Task Cards give students centers and whole group learning activities to help them see the changes in life in the past and today. Students will observe objects, clothing, tools, transportation, homes, and more to see the differences in things Then vs Now. This resource provides great supplemental practice activities that can be used with
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K - 2nd
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Unit 2 BUNDLE Passport to Social Studies, KINDERGARTEN Slideshows w Activities
Ease your mind from all the planning and gathering of photos, talking prompts, connections, etc... Teach from the editable kindergarten Passport to Social Studies slides with colorful visuals, talking prompts, independent work displayed as a task analysis (great to keep up on the smart board if administration comes in!) and a share. This bundle includes 12 lessons (Editable Google Slides!). Tons of EDITABLE slides worth of mini lessons, activities, and shares! ******Save money and purchase the b
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K
Map and Globes Worksheets - K-1st Grade Maps and Globes Task Cards & Worksheets
Kindergarten and 1st grade students will learn about maps, globes, compass roses, cardinal directions, map keys, and design their own map using this beginning maps and globes mapping skills BUNDLE! The map and globe worksheets, vocabulary cards, and interactive Boom Cardsâ„¢ are great center activities to introduce and/or practice maps and globes.This is a bundle of DIGITAL and PRINTABLE map and globe skill activities to provide kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade students with hands-on activit
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K - 1st
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Voting Booth Virtual Field Trip Activity | Election Day Vote Polls
Looking for a digital resource to introduce your students to voting, democracy & elections? This Virtual Field Trip teaches students about voting, how ballots and polls work and why voting is important. This Google slides resource features 2 digital choice boards with online links to student-friendly learning videos, read alouds, activities, songs & move around brain breaks, along with wrap-up questions to check for understanding. It's perfect for classroom whole class instruction &
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K - 3rd
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Unit 3 BUNDLE Passport to Social Studies, KINDERGARTEN Slideshows w Activities
Ease your mind from all the planning and gathering of photos, talking prompts, connections, etc... Teach from the editable kindergarten Passport to Social Studies slides with colorful visuals, talking prompts, independent work displayed as a task analysis (great to keep up on the smart board if administration comes in!) and a share. This bundle includes 12 lessons (Editable Google Slides!). Tons of EDITABLE slides worth of mini lessons, activities, and shares! ******Save money and purchase the b
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Grades:
K
K-1st Grade NGSS Science and Social Studies Worksheets Centers and Activities
Kindergarten and 1st grade teachers looking for Science and Social Studies Centers, Worksheets, Lesson Plans, and Activities will love this YEAR-LONG standards based NGSS science and social studies bundle! The DIGITAL and PRINTABLE teaching lessons and activities give students practice and review to learn about life science, the Earth, Animals, Famous Americans, Map Skills, Authority Figures, Forms of Energy, Habitats, Magnets, Plants, and MORE! This Next Generation Science and Social Studies B
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K - 1st
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NGSS:
1-ESS1-1
, 1-LS1-1
, K-2-ETS1-1
, K-ESS3-1
, 1-LS1-2
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Life 100 Years Ago- 100th Day of School- Gallery Walk- Photo prompts- Editable
What's more fun on the 100th day of school than taking the kids back in time? This slide show can be used in a variety of ways to enrich knowledge about the past. The students will be surprised to learn how the way of life 100 years ago is much different than today. Mount the large photos on construction paper for a gallery walk. Allow the kids to write questions, comments, and thoughts about each photo. Reveal the truth behind the photos through the brief summaries. Or... Allow groups of stud
Grades:
K - 4th
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-2
Back to School SEL Reading Comprehension Book Worksheets First Grade
Do your students struggle with reading comprehension? Science of Reading is used to describe 5 components of reading instruction: phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. This Back to School book and activities is a great tool to help with all of these components as well as teach social emotional learning and how to be a good citizen.Students may read the words, but not retain the information. This Back to School Quality Student Emergent Reader will solve that problem
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K - 2nd
Also included in:Â Back to School Reading Comprehension for First Grade
Transportation PowerPoint - Ways to Go
Transportation Ways to Go PowerPoint. What kind of transportation moves you? All kinds of transportation in this PowerPoint. Introduce and investigate the concept of transportation from the days of Paul Revere's ride to the present, with the many types of transportation we have available today. Students will have 54 different kinds of transportation to identify and classify, including interesting ones like Segway and the ISS. Each one is numbered, and then the answer is on the next slide, so the
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K - 2nd
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American Symbols Worksheets Kindergarten & 1st Grade Landmarks Activities
Explore American Symbols, Famous Landmarks, and US Symbols: American Flag, Statue of Liberty, Bald Eagle, Liberty Bell, Mount Rushmore, The White House, Uncle Sam, and Washington Monument using Symbols of the US worksheets, word wall picture cards, and center activities. This American Symbols packet goes with ANY Civics and Governments social studies curriculum and makes a great addition to your 4th of July, Memorial Day, Constitution Day, Presidents Day and Patriotic Day units too! You will be
Grades:
PreK - 1st
Goods and Services Sort Worksheets Kindergarten & 1st Grade Economics
These Economics sorting worksheets are fun interactive activities that give kindergarten and 1st grade sort, cut, and glue worksheets to help them see the differences in goods, services, producers, and consumers. These worksheets are great supplemental practice activities that can be used with ANY social studies curriculum!These Goods, Services, Producers, and Consumers Social Studies worksheetsare interactive and designed to give students fun and engaging activities to practice, identify, and
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K - 2nd
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Memorial Day Craft | Remembrance Poppy | Memorial Day Bulletin Board
Teach your students about the reasons we love our country with this Memorial Day Bulletin Board. Use writing, and art together to make this craft come to life! Let's remember the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. A poppy is included to remember those who died for our country. Directions:1. Print the desired pages for your students.2. Have students use the planning sheet to plan out some reasons why they love our country or where they live.3. Have students write some
Grades:
K - 3rd
NATIVE AMERICAN GAMES
Bring Native American studies to life with NATIVE AMERICAN GAMES, the book that features ten traditional games played by Native American children and adults across America. These historic games date back hundreds of years and use simple materials found in nature. Native American Games includes an introduction highlighting the historic purposes of games, instructions, fun facts, pictographs for decorating game pieces, and a vocabulary review. Games Included:BullroarerRing and PinStick TossStone T
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K - 5th
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Also included in:Â Native American SUPER PACK Bundle
7 Continents - Knowledge Building Parent Newsletters (English/Spanish)
Introducing our captivating Knowledge Building Parent Newsletter (English/Spanish) series, showcasing the vibrant and diverse continents of the world. Packed with fascinating information, engaging activities, and valuable resources, these newsletters provide a gateway for parents to embark on a cultural exploration alongside their children. With FOUR beautifully designed editions available in both English and Spanish for EACH continent, we aim to foster inclusivity and strengthen the school-home
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PreK - 8th
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- Learn about the achievements, challenges, perspectives, traditions, and customs of different societies
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- 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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