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2nd grade problem solving social studies task cards
Community Signs Skill Pack Leveled for Special Education - Life Skills
Do your students need a high level of varied practice in order to learn community signs? This community signs skill pack will help your students progress from identifying a sign to understanding what the community signs mean. Being able to identify and understand community signs is a crucial life skill. These activities help students recognize and understand the meaning of the different signs.This life skills and social studies set is already differentiated for you. There are 3 levels included t
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K - 12th
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Cup Stacking Challenge Cards
Grab these Cup Stacking Challenge Cards for endless classroom fun and engagement.Indoor Recess? perfect!Relay Race in P.E.? you bet!S.T.E.M. Activity? for sure!Need to boost student problem solving? you know it!What's Included:• 50 Illustrated Challenge Cards• Interactive PDF Full Page CardsEXTRA: Valentine Heart Cup Stacking ChallengesHow To Use:These challenge cards can be used several different ways. Ultimately, use these cards in a way that works best in your classroom and for your students.
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K - 3rd
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Math Logic Puzzles Shapes - Early Finisher Activities - levels A,B,C BUNDLE
These pattern block math logic puzzles for kindergarten, first, and second grade make a great, NO PREP math center activity, morning work activity, or challenge math activity. These logic puzzles keep students highly-engaged while improving and developing their logic and visual discrimination skills. These brain teasers are a great way to teach your students to persevere through challenging tasks and help to develop their growth mindset. This bundle includes three different levels of math logic
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K - 2nd
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LEGO Challenge Task Cards {Great for STEM or fun building!}
I am really excited to show you some cute, older-kid friendly LEGO Challenge Task Cards! These are bright, colorful, and can appeal to older students without looking too primary. Don’t’ have LEGOs? That’s okay! These can be used for any building materials you may have—unifix cubes, plastic Flake Discs (Amazon), Bunchems (Amazon or Target), Wiki Stix, pipe cleaners, play-dough, etc. Get those kids engineering and manipulating. They work great as an independent station for special education, a STE
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PreK - 8th
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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
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2nd
Also included in: Grade 2 Ontario Social Studies Workbook Bundle
STEM Activities - Student Passport around the World
Complete STEM activities based on a famous landmarks AROUND the WORLD! Students travel through Australia, France, Italy, Sweden, Russia, Egypt and America earning passport stamps as they complete their challenges. This is a fantastic resource for team building activities. Click HERE to SAVE over 20% with our Travel the World STEM Bundle.These task cards allow flexibility with the teacher to either grab and go or build further lessons around each challenge. They lend themselves to Geography, Sci
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2nd - 6th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: WORLD CONTINENTS STEM Activities and Challenges Travel Passport
Popsicle Stick Visual Discrimination Cards
This is a set of 100 different popsicle stick cards. Students copy the picture pattern using popsicle sticks. These are great for morning tubs, stem bins, early finisher activities, math centers and even indoor recess time. They are a hit with my first graders.Super easy to prep and use. The cards are designed 4 per page. Print and use!! Here is an amazon link for colored Popsicle sticks if you need some.Follow me on...InstagramFacebookmy blog
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K - 2nd
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Holiday Hashtag Blocks Challenge Cards / Christmas & Winter STEM / Student Gifts
The following holiday challenge cards and gift tags are perfect for student gifts and are designed to accompany “Hashtag” building blocks, found seasonally in Target Dollar Spot.Students may complete the challenge cards independently or with partners, or you may choose to make copies and give them as holiday gifts to your students.Includes smaller cards for individual student use and larger cards for classroom use.To complete the Hashtag Block challenge cards, students will only need about 30 bl
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PreK - 6th
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Growing Pattern Activities: Growing Pattern Task Cards Math Center
Use unifix cubes to copy and extend the next part of the growing pattern! These task cards are perfect for math centers and help to build students' mathematical reasoning skills. Also called increasing patterns, solving visual patterns like these helps lay the foundation for solving increasingly complex patterns such as number patterns.Ideas for use: math centers, guided math, morning tubs, soft start bins, choice time, indoor recess, whole group, partner time, individual practice bins, math rot
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K - 2nd
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Boom Cards Social Skills Communication Conversation Bundle Elementary
Boom Cards for social skills are no print digital task cards that are interactive. Your students will love working on conversation skills in this format. In this bundle for elementary students, you will receive 4 sets of Boom Cards for teaching conversation skills! Check out the four video previews for each product on the product page. All decks in this bundle:are geared for K-4. audio directions,navigational arrows and/or home page,slides that teach the skill, andreal photographs, andtiers
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K - 4th
Depth of Knowledge (DOK) 105 Question Stem Cards MATH EDITION
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With the new assessments coming into play, students will be expected to answer more complex questions. Are your students answering higher-order questions properly and regularly? If not, use these questioning stems to get kids thinking more deeply about their learning.
This set of DOK Level 1-4 cards, makes it easy to scroll through and select various levels of questions before, during, and after instruction. They are
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PreK - 12th
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Pattern Block Puzzles • Math Shape Puzzles • Autumn Thanksgiving Theme
Looking for an engaging math center for the fall? This set of pattern block puzzles will keep students eager to learn and explore shapes all year long! This set is for Autumn (November) Choose from three differentiated levels to allow students to progress or for different ability levels. They make an awesome math center that keeps students attention while focusing on a challenge that they will enjoy!Grab the whole year long bundle and change out the centers each month of the year!Included in thi
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PreK - 3rd
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Also included in: Pattern Block Puzzles • Math Shape Puzzles • YEAR LONG BUNDLE
Social Emotional Learning & Character Education | SEL & Social Skills Bundle
Are you looking for fun, meaningful and interactive lessons & activities to help you teach character education and social skills in your classroom in order to create a learning environment filled with kindness and caring? Then stop ✋ scrolling! This Social Emotional Learning & Character Education Bundle is just what you need to explicitly teach your K-2 students positive social skills and what a caring classroom community looks like. This Social Skills resource includes 8 Units and 8 or
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K - 2nd
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Biography Card Bundle (Daily Routine)
This bundle includes resources to help you incorporate under-represented history into your classroom without having to give up lesson time needed to cover the curriculum. These biography profile cards can be used in 5 minutes a day and will introduce students to 30-42 people a month, not to mention create thoughtful discussion and reflection based on the challenge question cards included.Unfortunately, our curriculum doesn't feature many black and brown faces, or many women. Electing to erase th
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K - 8th
Map Skills and Directions BOOM CARDS™ Distance Learning | Reading a Map
This set is a great way to review cardinal directions and reading a map! This deck reviews north, south, east, west, and skills that primary students need to know when looking at a map. This set is geared toward first grade or second grade students! There are 52 slides in this deck. This set randomizes to play 20 cards at a time. So, each time your students play, they will get a new set of cards! The first 2 will stay consistent though (clicking on the map key and compass rose). This
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in: 1st and 2nd Grade SOCIAL STUDIES Boom Cards™ BUNDLE Distance Learning
Art Activities Task Card Bundle
Art activities for art centers, early finishers, and independent work! No crafts or coloring pages.Give students something creative and thought-provoking to do when they finish their assignments, and foster independence and creativity in students with these Art Activities Task Cards.These self-directed activities are designed to be used independently by students on their own time, although they may also be used as an idea bank for whole class art activities. The cards can be used in any order, a
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2nd - 5th
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Reaction Size to Big, Medium & Small Problems - Handout, Task Cards, Visuals
Reaction Size to Big, Medium & Small Problems - Handout, Task Cards, Visuals This product was created to help children: 1) Differentiate between big, medium, and small problems 2) Determine appropriate reaction sizes to problems 3) Generate solutions for various problems What's included: 1) 3-page Handout With information about: why strong problem-solving are importantreview of problem sizes and reaction sizesexplanation about why problem and reaction sizes should matchstrategies for tea
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PreK - 6th
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Types of Communities │Rural, Urban, & Suburban
This is the perfect bundle to use when teaching your students about the different types of communities (rural, suburban, and urban)! Your students will enjoy these hands on activities and task cards, which are great to use in centers. Posters are also provided for your students to refer to. Included in this bundle:-"What is a Community" Poster-Rural Communities Poster-Urban Communities Poster-Suburban Communities Poster-Rural, Urban, and Suburban Picture Cards (1 page each, 4 images to a page)-R
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K - 6th
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Valentine's Day Hashtag Blocks Cards / Valentine STEM Activities
The following Valentine's Day hashtag blocks challenge cards and gift tags are perfect for student gifts and Valentine's Day STEM Activities! They are designed to accompany “Hashtag” building blocks, found seasonally in Target Dollar Spot.Students may complete the 8 challenge cards independently or with partners, or you may choose to make copies and give them as Valentine's Day gifts to your students.Includes smaller cards for individual student use and larger cards for classroom use, as well a
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PreK - 6th
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Map Skills - First Grade Mapping - Social Studies - Google Slides™
Teaching beginning map skills to 1st graders is always a lot of fun! Students love learning about maps, compass roses, cardinal directions, and map keys! This interactive Google Slides™ unit is a perfect activity to introduce and practice beginning mapping.Audio is included on all slides in this unit.Here's what's included in this deck:Audio included for definitions, instructions, sentencesDifferent uses of mapsCardinal directions on a compass roseUsing directions on a mapUsing a map key activit
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1st - 2nd
Math Logic Puzzles - Early Finisher Activities - set 1 & 2 - print & digital
This set of 56 interactive logic puzzles will have kids begging for more! Easy to use, these brain teasers are a great math center that will keep kids engaged while thinking logically. These puzzles are perfect to help your 1st and 2nd grade students learn to persevere through challenging tasks.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Now includes DIGITAL logic puzzles formatted for students to use with G
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1st - 2nd
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BUNDLED September Unique Learning Systems Task Boxes- Unit 1 Government
**Save 40%** Need extra independent tasks to pair with Unique Learning System (ULS) lessons? I’ve got you covered! These interactive independent task boxes & work stations use Symbolstix images to coordinate with the Unique Learning System (ULS) September Unit 1--Government Rules & Laws. **monthly digital versions coming soon!**This file includes:* addition task cards (1-10) with worksheet* subtraction task cards (1-10) with worksheet * tens frames 1-10* tens frames to 1-20* tens frames
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PreK - 12th
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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
Asking for Help Self-Advocacy Scenarios & Rubric
Empower Young Learners to Ask for Help with Confidence!Does your classroom struggle with students who hesitate to ask for help? This engaging resource equips elementary students with the essential skills they need to become confident "Help-Seeking Heroes!"60 Everyday Scenarios:These relatable scenarios cover a wide range of situations elementary students encounter, prompting them to:Identify the problem and who to ask for assistance.Craft clear and concise requests for help.Develop strong commu
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1st - 4th
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Also included in: Bigger Safety and Self-Advocacy Problem Solving Bundle
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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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