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High school oral communication social studies interactive whiteboards
The M&M Game
*NOW EDITABLE! This is a fun activity to do in the early days of school. My students love it and always want to play it more than once. Basically, each student has a mini-bag of M&M’s and, depending on which color they draw out, they tell different things about themselves. Students first play in a large group with the visual display on the SMART Board, and then return to their table groups to play in small groups.*UPDATED* Now includes an editable version, and comes with paper “candy” if you
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K - 12th
Working Memory Executive Functioning NO PRINT Speech | Distance Learning
Memory for Messages is the perfect functional resource to target working memory skills in your middle and high school students. This lesson is designed to be NO PRINT and NO PREP. You can download it today, and use within minutes. *****************************************************************************************************************Each student is presented with a printed message, then asked to determine which words are relevant in that message, to be written down on a "sticky note"
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6th - 9th
CHC2P CHC2D Cold War: Entire Unit
Cold War: Entire UnitThis unit was designed for students learning about the Cold War from a Canadian perspective based on Ontario curriculum expectations but can be utilized in any classroom learning about the the interwar period. Students will use a variety of sources and activities to learn about the themes, events and characters that shaped this fascinating period through 9 different lessons and 1 review activity. This package contains readings with embedded questions, PowerPoint lessons with
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10th
Causes of the American Revolution Analogy Game
This humorous game begins by posing to students a number of 'Parent-Child Conflict' scenarios in which students are asked to make decisions from the point of view of a child. What students don't realize is that every conflict scenario is intended to be a direct analogy to a cause of the American Revolution. These analogies and connections are revealed to students after they complete the decision making game. By using analogies in a game-like format, students are able to better understand and
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7th - 12th
John Locke & Montesquieu: Influencing the Framers - Civics EOC 2024 Topic 1.4
Updated for Civics EOC 2024 Exam. Complete Lesson on John Locke and Baron de Montesquieu's influence on the Founding Fathers. Lesson Includes:This lesson is part of a bundle. Click here to save $5 on 10 of my lessons• Step-by-step Lesson Plan• PowerPoint as featured on my YouTube channel: Mr. Raymond's Civics E.O.C. Academy.• Custom Worksheet• Smart-board Matching Activity (includes paper copy for those w/o smart-board)• Cooperative Assignment• Multiple Choice Quiz • Homework AssignmentCheck out
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7th - 10th
Also included in: Civics EOC Bundle I
Short Stories for Comprehension for Older Students
Comprehension work for upper elementary, middle school, and even high school speech-language students made easy! Target receptive language, expressive language, and reading comprehension using vocabulary meanings in context, iidioms/figures of speech, wh- questions, inferences, and predictions with these original high-interest short stories made for older students. 8 stories allow for multiple practice targets! Each Story Includes:A total of 9 pages!3 containing the story and vocabulary activiti
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4th - 10th
Breaking Down Stereotypes & Prejudices-Teaching Tolerance
Are you reading The Outsiders, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Hate You Give, Dear Martin, or any other piece of literature dealing with tolerance, prejudices, racism and stereotyping? Are you teaching these topics in your history class? This social experiment will open your students’ eyes to the injustices that take place on a daily basis and why people need to be educated on these topics.We currently live in a world and country where social injustices, prejudices and stereotyping take place on a da
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8th - 12th
Civil Rights Movement Powerpoint
30 Slides to help you teach this important period of American History
Topics Included:
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Segregation
Integration
Armed forces integration
Sit-ins
Civil Rights Leaders: Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Booker T. Washington, Jesse Jackson, Thurgood Marshall
Tuskegee Institute
March on Washington
Seperate but Equal
Brown vs. Board of Education
Little Rock Nine
John F. Kennedy
Civil Rights Act
Lyndon Johnson
NAACP
Check out the preview file for an "at a glance"
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Jeopardy Powerpoint + Smartboard Template
This is an awesome way to review material with a class. This blank jeopardy template is simple to fill in and use. Once you have filled in your categories, questions, and answers just click "begin slideshow from beginning" and you are ready to roll. This template works great with both regular standard projectors as well as smart-boards.Features:- Fully customizable categories. - Fully customizable questions.- Persistent memory template that removes used questions.- Customizable host introduction
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4th - 12th
The Haitian Revolution- 2 day lesson
The Haitian Revolution- 2 day lessonThis is a fantastic 2 day lesson that will help you provide a more in-depth understanding of the Haitian Revolution and its consequences. Topics covered in this two day lesson include: Geography of Latin America, information on the Haitian revolution, the class system of Haiti before the revolution, the role of Toussaint L’Ouverture in the revolution, Napoleon’s goals in Haiti, and consequences of the Haitian Revolution.,Students will also analyze several prim
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9th - 12th
NO PRINT Directing Your Tone of Voice Middle & High School Inferences
Do you find it difficult to teach tone of voice? Do you find that the instructions your giving sound vague and too abstract? This interactive PDF provides instructions for tone of voice vocabulary including practice tools, video examples, and quantifiable measures for concrete thinkers. Additionally, the social scenes and scenarios take ONE phrase in THREE difference contexts to solidify how tone of voice changes in different contexts.Have middle school and high school students in mixed group
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4th - 12th
Describing your location - ESL adult and kid conversation lesson
YOU CAN FIND A VIDEO SAMPLE OF THIS LESSON: Click here This presentation contains a 71 slide PowerPoint lesson in editable PPT format with a vocabulary handout and Teacher’s notes.Descriptions of locations are becoming more and more difficult (not only for ESL), because we have learnt to rely completely on a GPS. We can’t read maps anymore and we have a tough time for giving directions to a specific location, if we can’t “share the GPS location on our phone”.In this lesson, I’ve tried to collect
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: learning to describe - bundle for ESL, EFL, ELL adult conversation
The U.S. Flag and Flag Etiquette
This product is designed to teach students about the history and symbolism of the United States Flag in addition to flag etiquette. Teachers can use the lesson slides while the students follow along with the Student Note Page. The lesson covers the history of the U.S. Flag, the symbolism of the flag, flag etiquette, and how to fold the flag. This product includes lesson slides in both PowerPoint and SMART Notebook format, a colored Student Note Page, and a black and white Student Note Page.
Grades:
4th - 9th
Día de Muertos - The roots and the connections
Colegas, this customizable Google Slides presentation de Día de Muertos is perfect to explore the indigenous roots of the celebration and talk about it in depth through visually appealing audiovisual media.It features scaffolded slides in Spanglish, an illustrated vocabulary bank, a map for land acknowledgment, and links to two different gadgets I used with my students for assessment.What you'll find here:A link to a Google slides presentation with 23 editable slides plus extra clip art and auth
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2nd - 12th
Conversation Questions & Comments Mega Bundle Boom Cards
This Boom Card deck series works great for speech/language or special education students working on social skills, expressive communication, or carry-over of speech skills by providing sample scenarios in which to practice best conversational responses. Each deck includes 20 cards with situations pertaining to that deck topic in order to help students think about appropriate comments, questions, or answers. Incorrect choices provide great starting points for discussion. Good for teletherapy or s
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6th - 12th
CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION JEOPARDY
Civil War Jeopardy. Reconstruction questions too. Includes 50 questions and a final jeopardy question. Jeopardy for Microsoft PowerPoint.
When using as a Powerpoint, you can click on the dollar amount on the main and it will jump to the question. Once a question is answered, the dollar amount will fade in color. The PowerPoint is completely editable. Use again and again for multiple lessons.
Great for playing in class.
OTHER PRODUCTS FOR TEACHING EARLY AMERICA:
Constitution Jeopardy
Three
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6th - 12th
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Daily JANUARY Nonfiction Stories - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Teachers love to use these every day to increase reading comprehension skills. You get the worksheets along with a google slide digital version. Plenty of nonfiction stories featuring celebrities, inventors, sports, scientific discoveries, dramatic events and more… this series is sure to give you an unending supply of relevant and intriguing daily reading lessons. Each high-Interest passage is followed by a full page of skill-specific comprehension activities designed to sharpen essential reading
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
Charity – it's not as clear cut as you think, Conversation ESL and debate class
This is a PowerPoint lesson in editable PPT format with worksheets and teacher’s notes. This conversation lesson, aimed at high schoolers and ESL adults, aspires to create a debate about the pros and cons of charity in its various forms and models and to discuss what, if any, are the problems with charity as we know it.Charity is something that seems pretty straightforward. Not everyone gives to charity, but most people believe it’s a good and moral thing to do. In this lesson, we look at scient
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Virginia Studies SMARTboard Lesson - Jamestown - SOL VS.3
**Updated to the NEW Virginia SOLS (2016)**
This is a 37 page instructional SMART Board lesson that covers Virginia Studies SOLs VS.3 - the entire Jamestown Unit. This lesson is full of interactive activities, video clips, websites, pictures and more!
This SMARTboard usually takes me about 2 -3 weeks to teach. It is aligned perfectly to my interactive notebook on this topic that is also listed here on TPT. You can find it here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Virginia-Studies-Int
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3rd - 10th
Powerpoint Game: United States Geography
A 50-question, interactive quiz to test your students' knowledge on the fifty states of the United States of America. Simply click on the corresponding color to make your guess! Each of the state's respective flags are shown for additional learning about the USA.This product is designed specifically to be engaging for your students. Your students will love the fun sound effects and the opportunity to get up and walk around in order to tap the on-screen buttons.This product is best used with a Pr
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
Intro to Imperialism via Black Panther
Intro to Imperialism via Black PantherThis is a fantastic lesson that will help you provide a more in-depth understanding of the causes and factors of Imperialism. Topics in the lesson also included: The development of Imperialism over time, motivation behind imperialism, the connections to Industrialization, different types of Imperialism, and the differences between old and new Imperialism. This lesson is designed to be personalized by you to best suit your classroom and the students needs. I
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8th - 12th
NO PRINT Mapping Out Language Functional Life Skills BUNDLE
This is a collection of innovative, interactive PDFs that will allow middle school and high school students to work on life skills while targeting attention, memory, semantic reasoning, executive function, auditory comprehension, and verbal expression on just 5 pages for 5 different cities: Charleston, SC; Big Sky Resort, MA; El Paso, TX; Washington, DC; and Chicago, IL. *****Watch this YOUTUBE video to see my 6 tips in action for using Mapping Out Language resources in teletherapy sessions!!**
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6th - 12th
Extreme sport – There’s a twist! - ESL adult & kids conversation lesson
This is a two-hour ESL adult PowerPoint lesson in editable PPT format with worksheets and a class activity. In this lesson, students are asked to comment, discuss, and argue - risky and dangerous behavior – but they’ll need to define it first. Extreme sports are becoming popular due to a society that is growing wealthier, more health-conscious, and with much more free time. Another (seemingly less important, but who are we kidding) interesting factor is the visual attraction that these sports ha
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Pro and Post Vacation Bundle - ESL adult conversation PowerPoint lessons
Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule - Novel Study Packet
I created this 14 page novel study packet to deepen my students' experience with this masterfully written historical fiction novel about the Reconstruction time period. It has been very effective with my students and I have refined it after teaching the novel several times. It is an excellent springboard to integrate your instruction of ELA skills/standards with Social Studies. At the end of our study, my students turn it in for a test grade.
Social Studies topics covered:
Reconstruction, Sla
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4th - 12th
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