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2nd grade Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa social studies independent work packets
End of the Year Craft Activity Last Week of School Me on the Map Skills Review
Looking for an End of Year Craft Activity to Review Map Skills? Want a Last Week of School Writing Project? This Me on the Map flip book and summer writing pages are perfect for 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th grade students!This Maps and Globes activities pack has 8600+ POSITIVE REVIEWS and is the original & most highly-rated Me on the Map Project Activity Bundle on TpT. Teach map skills with crafts, printable worksheets, flip books & a nesting circle craftivity for the book by Joan Sweeney.It wil
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1st - 5th
Global Communities Workbook (Grade 2 Social Studies)
This workbook covers the Grade 2 Global Communities unit in the NEW 2023 Ontario Social Studies curriculum (People and Environments).It covers various topics such as map skills, continents, oceans, and the equator. It further explores Canada, comparing climate, wildlife, natural features, homes, and recreation. It includes information on specific Canadian communities in Ontario, Yukon, Nova Scotia, and British Columbia, including a contemporary FNMI community (Saugeen First Nation). The workbook
Grades:
2nd
Also included in: Grade 2 Ontario Social Studies Workbook Bundle
Christmas Word Search Puzzles | Christmas Crossword Puzzles | Word Scrambles
Christmas Word Search Puzzles | Christmas Crossword Puzzles | Word ScramblesIf you're looking for festive and educational fast-finisher activities for your class this holiday season, look no further! Your students will absolutely love these Christmas Word Searches, Crossword Puzzles, and Word Scramble Puzzles. You'll also receive a few additional Christmas Writing Activities. See a detailed list of activities included below.Included Resources:5 Christmas Crossword Puzzles + Keys - Includes 5 cla
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2nd - 4th
Changing Family and Community Traditions Workbook (Grade 2 Social Studies)
This workbook covers the Grade 2 Changing Family and Community Traditions unit in the NEW 2023 Ontario Social Studies curriculum (Heritage and Identity).In this engaging workbook, students will discover the world's diverse cultures and traditions. They will explore their own ancestors/heritage, learn about family structures, and compare different families. They will learn about different traditions and celebrations in Canada, including learning about the impact that colonization, including the r
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2nd
Also included in: Grade 2 Ontario Social Studies Workbook Bundle
Grade 2/3 Social Studies Workbooks (Ontario Curriculum)
This BUNDLE contains FOUR independent Social Studies workbooks for Grade 2/3 students and FOUR Social Studies projects/activities. Each workbook meets the NEW 2023 Ontario Social Studies Curriculum expectations for an ENTIRE Social Studies unit.All Grade 2/3 Social Studies units are included.Grade 2: Global Communities, Changing Family and Community TraditionsGrade 3: Living and Working in Ontario, Communities in Canada (1780-1850)Together, the workbooks total up to 263 pages of student workshee
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Grade 1/2 Social Studies Workbooks and Projects (Ontario Curriculum)
This BUNDLE contains FOUR independent Social Studies workbooks for Grade 1/2 students and FOUR Social Studies projects/activities. Each workbook meets the NEW 2023 Ontario Social Studies Curriculum expectations for an ENTIRE Social Studies unit.All Grade 1/2 Social Studies units are included.Grade 1: The Local Community, Changing Roles and ResponsibilitiesGrade 2: Global Communities, Changing Family and Community Traditions.Together, the workbooks total up to 249 pages of student worksheets! Ful
Grades:
1st - 2nd
Map Skills | Project Based Learning | Geometry | Printable & Digital | Google
Have your students demonstrate their understanding of many different math concepts while designing a map of their own town! This hands-on math activity is a project that will definitely engage your students.Check out the preview for more details!Objective: To demonstrate an understanding of geometric terms and measurement. Students will be designing and drawing a map that will incorporate many mathematical concepts.The following concepts will be covered through this project-based learning activi
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2nd - 5th
Also included in: Project Based Math Activities BUNDLE
Test Prep CREATE A BOARD GAME project standardized testing review
One of my favorite activities to do during "test prep" season is to have my students create their own board games. We then spend the days before the assessments playing the games. No Prep Engaging Enrichment Activities→ Do you have students who constantly finish assignments early?→ Do you want an activity for them to do independently that is purposeful and engaging?→ Are you looking for a fun and exciting way for your whole class to review concepts and demonstrate their knowledge in a creative m
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2nd - 5th
Christmas Math Color By Number Code Addition & Subtraction Coloring Pages
These Christmas NO PREP color by the number code math worksheets are for First, Second and Third grade. These December addition and subtraction printable puzzles are aligned to the CCSS and each page has the specific CCSS listed. Answer keys are included.Bright Ideas For The Holidays: Perfect set for the last few days before the winter vacation! This set includes 10 math puzzles with the following skills:~ Addition Facts~ Subtraction Facts~ Even and Odd Numbers~ Addition and Subtraction Facts Mi
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1st - 3rd
Founding Fathers | Continental Congress | American Revolution | Constitution Day
Looking for resources to help you teach about the Founding Fathers while practicing important reading skills? Look no further! These no-prep, short biographies of the Founding Fathers are perfect for adding to your current social studies curriculum or to use by themselves. INCLUDES BOTH A PRINT AND DIGITAL VERSION MADE FOR GOOGLE SLIDES.Learn about each Founding Father with a kid-friendly text and text-based questions where students need to "prove" the support of their answer by color-coding t
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2nd - 4th
Biography Templates | Famous Person Report | Research Project Graphic Organizers
✅ ✍ Are you ready to teach report writing to your students? Teaching kids how to research is a life skill and writing a biography is the perfect research project for kids. Use these no-prep differentiated biography templates and biography rubric to get your kids writing about famous scientists, famous artists, and MORE. ✅The materials in the biography report package help make the report writing process easy for your students and the planning process easy for you. Your kids will enjoy writing fam
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1st - 3rd
WINTER Early Finisher Packet - NO PREP- Fast Finishers Activities
WINTER BRAIN BOOMERS are HERE! These winter themed fun activities were designed to provide students with enriching, challenging, and creative tasks to work on to give their brain's a boost of energy, calm, creativity, and more! Activities require absolutely NO PREP. Just print and go! Puzzles, mazes, color by number, etc.), math activities, directed drawings, pencil tracing, challenges, mindful coloring, and WAY MORE!-OVER 55 pages included plus a Brain Boomer Packet cover :)Super fun for early
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K - 2nd
Also included in: Winter Activities and Centers - Coloring, Theme Days
Les communautés du monde (Grade 2 Ontario FRENCH Social Studies)
This FRENCH workbook covers the Grade 2 Global Communities unit in the NEW 2023 Ontario Social Studies curriculum (People and Environments).Ce cahier d'exercices couvre l'unité Les communautés du monde de la 2e année du programme d'études sociales de l'Ontario 2023 (Communauté et environnement).It covers various topics such as map skills, continents, oceans, and the equator. It further explores Canada, comparing climate, wildlife, natural features, homes, and recreation. It includes information
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2nd
Also included in: MEGA BUNDLE: Grade 2 Ontario FRENCH Social Studies Full Units
Christmas Holiday Brain Break Activities and NO PREP Worksheets for December
These NO PREP Christmas Holiday Brain Break Activities for December are the perfect collection of fun mazes, find the difference coloring pictures, coordinate graphing pictures, connect the dots, riddles, logic puzzles, sudoku puzzles, tic tac toe, word searches, and a word scramble page for your 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th grade students to help them focus, improve their fine motor skills, and be more productive! This Christmas Holiday Brain Breaks PDF of NO PREP WORKSHEETS is the perfect collec
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2nd - 6th
100th Day of School Activities NO PREP Writing Math Craft Certificate & More!
Celebrate the 100th Day of School in your classroom with these engaging math, writing, movement, craft, history and other fun activities! With 15 activities to choose from you won't have a problem filling your lesson plans with everything to celebrate 100 Days of School. And we aren't talking fluff activities. Use the 100th Day to get your students reading, writing, working math problems, and so much more! In my classroom, students were so excited to do all things 100 that they ended up doing
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K - 5th
Virtual Field Trip of Winter Holidays Around the World Bundle Digital
Explore the different holidays around the world in this virtual field trip discount bundle including FREE trips! Perfect for Winter or Holidays in your classroom to learn about Hanukkah, St. Lucia Day, Boxing Day, Christmas, Diwali, and Kwanzaa!Holidays are almost here and what a wonderful time of year! Christmas is magical but so are all the other exciting holidays around the WORLD! Explore and learn all about different places around the globe with what celebrations they have for Winter with fu
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1st - 8th
Greek Myth Reading Passage and Questions: Achilles
Practice deep reading comprehension with this fun Greek myth based on Achilles. Students will read a one page story about Achilles, the brave Greek warrior with a hidden weakness. This passage offers ten text dependent reading comprehension questions.Students will practice important reading comprehension skills such as author's purpose, vocabulary, figurative language, cause and effect, theme, and character traits. Some questions require more than one answer. Some questions have more than one pa
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2nd - 8th
Also included in: Greek Myths Reading Passages and Comprehension Questions
Winter CSI Math Mystery Detective Snow Day Snowman Fun Game and Activities
This winter snow day CSI math mystery activity will capture your students imagination. This is an engaging resource to practice addition and subtraction, mapping skills with coordinates, and finding missing numbers that add to 100. Students follow the clues on the winter worksheets to solve the mystery and discover who built the snowman.These winter math activities include:Addition to 100Mapping using coordinates3 Digit Addition with Regrouping2 digit Subtraction with RegroupingMissing number th
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2nd - 5th
Also included in: CSI Help Math Murder Mystery Bundle
Colombia Country Study: Reading & Writing + Google Slides/PPT Distance Learning
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in Colombia?Learn what it might be like to be a kid in Colombia through the eyes of a Colombian boy named Christian. Students will see what it’s like to attend school in Colombia, what food they might eat, what sports they might play, and what they might do with their families for fun on weekends. Great for distance learning, and for celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month and Latinx history and culture!Included in This Kid's Life: Colombia:A lett
Grades:
1st - 6th
Also included in: Around the World Mega Bundle - 92 countries - 50% Discount
India! Diwali Craft—Watercolor Doodle Rangoli Mandala, No Prep, Symmetry
Students make a fun and easy Indian rangoli craft to celebrate India’s biggest festival of the year, Diwali, the Festival of Lights. INDIA! Watercolor Doodle Rangoli Mandala teaches students about rangoli, an ancient art form that is used to decorate floors and entrances to homes in India. Rangoli is also known as mandala or kolam. Then students practice radial symmetry using watercolors and markers to add color and doodles to their own template. Product includes, all as Adobe files - Introducti
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1st - 8th
Grade 2/3 FRENCH Ontario Social Studies Workbooks
This FRENCH BUNDLE contains FOUR independent French Social Studies workbooks for Grade 2/3 students and FOUR Social Studies projects/activities. Each workbook meets the Ontario Curriculum expectations for an ENTIRE Social Studies unit. All Grade 2/3 Social Studies units are included.Each workbook meets the NEW 2023 Ontario Social Studies Curriculum expectations for an ENTIRE Social Studies unit.2e année: "Les traditions familiales et communautaire" and "Les communautés du monde"3e année: "Vivre
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2nd - 3rd
Map Skills Digital Unit - Continents, Me On the Map, Communities for 1st Grade
This bundle of digital Map Skills activities are easy to use as traditional classroom lesson plans, centers, homework, independent work, or they’re great for fast finishers in first and second grades. Busy teachers love these low-prep lessons and activities that are sure to engage their students! With print & digital options, Learning Quests provide a balance of face to face and device-based learning styles for your modern classroom.These Learning Quests provide literacy and research activit
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1st - 2nd
CHRISTMAS Early Finisher Packet - NO PREP- Winter Fast Finishers Activities
CHRISTMAS BRAIN BOOMERS are HERE! These Christmas themed fun activities were designed to provide students with enriching, challenging, and creative tasks to work on to give their brain's a boost of energy, calm, creativity, and more! Activities require absolutely NO PREP. Just print and go! Puzzles, mazes, color by number, etc.), math activities, directed drawings, pencil tracing, challenges, mindful coloring, and WAY MORE!-OVER 80 pages included plus a Brain Boomer Packet cover :)Super fun for
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K - 2nd
Also included in: Christmas Activities and Centers - Coloring, Theme Day
Reading Comprehension Christmas - Reindeer
Incorporate nonfiction into your holiday reading with this fun nonfiction passage about reindeer. This passage is perfect for whole group or small group reading. Students will learn about life on the tundra and about the many adaptations reindeer need to survive. This article discusses the diet of reindeer and gives information about baby reindeer!After reading, students will complete 10 multiple choice, text dependent reading comprehension questions. This passage provides the opportunity to pra
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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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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