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Back to School social studies task cards
Back To School Task Cards Getting to Know You Task Cards
Enjoy these 32 digital and printable 'getting to know you' task cards to engage your students during the first few days of school! I always use them on the first day of school, and we love them!**NOW INCLUDES THREE OPTIONS, Including Digital Access!**These are the ORIGINAL Getting To Know You, Back to School Task Cards!*NEW* 'Getting To Know You' task cards now includes 3 options for use!Printable Task CardsDigital Task Cards to Project via Google SlidesDigital Student Slides via Google SlidesP
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2nd - 7th
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Left Brain vs Right Brain Tests
Do you want an activity that gives you real information about how your students think, perceive, process, and learn best from the very first days in your room? This Left Brain vs Right Brain Test will guide your students through a series of questions, and they will record their answers on a "map of their brain". You can read the questions aloud, have the list printed for groups or individuals, or use the task cards included to make a task card scoot around the room. I know there is a lot of rese
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4th - 6th
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Made For Me Literacy 10-Month Bundle (Level A) Special Education
Team Made For Me Literacy (collaboration with Gabrielle Dixon from Teaching Special Thinkers) is proud to announce our first-ever Level A Bundle, geared toward Pre-K, Early Childhood, and early learners in the special education classroom. This Bundle includes 10 months’ worth of lesson plans and hands-on activities. Each individual unit will contain a day-by-day curriculum map, which will effortlessly guide you through the entire month’s worth of content. What is included in a month of Made F
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PreK - K
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First Day of School Task Cards
**Ink-saver and colored versions available**Need a fun activity for the first day of school?! Use these FIRST DAY task cards to get to know your students better and to get them familiar with their new classroom! (I personally use them first thing in the morning, but you can use them whenever!)The cards are placed around the room (or all in one area if you prefer it that way) and the students will record their answers on their recording sheet. For example, when they get to the R card, they will
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1st - 8th
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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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CHAMPS Classroom Behavior Management Posters Whole Class Behavior Plan Visuals
Set clear expectations for your students before every activity with the CHAMPS behavior management system. This CHAMPS resource has over 170 poster options to customize the system to meet your needs! Stop behavior issues before they start with this organized system. CHAMPS is not a system of rules and consequences. It’s a way to clearly communicate to your students in a positive manner making it easier for expectations to be met. CHAMPS communicates 6 expectations:C - Conversation (no talking,
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PreK - 6th
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Pattern Block Pictures Mats Zoo Animals Puzzles Task Cards
This is a set of 40 pattern block cards. Students will use pattern block mats to create zoo animals. There are 4 styles of cards for each animal to meet your differentiated levels. Two styles are black and white and the others are colored. The cards also have an option for students to count how many blocks they use and write the number. This is perfect for a STEM or STEAM center, math center activity, morning work and more.Click here for a HUGE discount on my pattern block animal bundle set
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: Pattern Block Mats Task Cards Puzzles
Back to School Third Day of Third Grade
Great back to school activity! Your third graders will love celebrating the third day of school and it will be the perfect way to get to know them better!The file contains 2 different types of questions:1. Getting to know you questions.2. Beginning of the year informal skills assessment questions.The file includes 24 different task cards and a recording sheet.Please check out some of my other beginning of the year products:First Day of School Paper Bag Memory BookAbout the Teacher EDITABLE BookO
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3rd
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Conversation Starters Visuals Task Cards Social Skills
These conversation starters task cards are a fun and engaging way to encourage your students to start conversations, different ways to engage in a conversation and to improve their social skills. By having a variety of different prompt cards on hand you are encouraging your students to take part in conversations with others, but also providing them with the help/support that they may need to initiate conversations.This resource contains 104 different prompt cards to help and encourage students t
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: How to Set Up Your Autism Classroom | Autism Classroom Resources
Back to School Math Centers THIRD GRADE
This product includes 10 engaging math centers that review 2nd grade math skills. They are ideal for the beginning of the year 3rd graders. Students have a recording book and rotate through 10 different centers. Centers include constructed response math journaling, task cards and sorts.**Would you like to learn how I use these math centers? Click HERE to view a free video on how to implement math centers.**All centers are included in color, black & white, and digital versions!*********Topics
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3rd
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Also included in: Math Centers Bundle THIRD GRADE
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
Scientific Method Task Cards | Science Investigations Experiments Variables
If your students are like mine, they need extra help with science process skills like supporting claims, identifying variables, asking testable questions, and writing investigation procedures.This task cards set has 20 task cards that each have 5 questions about an investigation scenario (100 total questions).Skills Included:identify independent variablesidentify dependent variablesidentify constantsformulate hypothesescommunicate valid conclusionsunderstand repeated trials can increase the reli
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4th - 7th
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CHAMPS Editable Classroom Behavior Management Posters Whole Class Behavior Plan
Set clear expectations for your students before every activity with the CHAMPS behavior management system. With pre-made posters for you along with a Google Drive version that you can fully customize you’ll find everything, you need to start a successful CHAMPS system in your classroom! Stop behavior issues before they start with this organized system. CHAMPS is not a system of rules and consequences. It’s a way to clearly communicate to your students in a positive manner making it easier for e
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PreK - 6th
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Titanic Passenger Research Activity
Dig into history and research the passengers aboard the Titanic with this printable and digital reproduction of tickets aboard the Titanic! Use the interactive, Google Slides version to explore and research 36 different Titanic. Each of the 36 different tickets uses the real names of Titanic passengers. **This resource was COMPLETELY updated April 2021**What is included in this Titanic Passenger Tickets Research Activity?This activity comes in three versions (see the 'PREVIEW' for a visual of
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3rd - 8th
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Made For Me Literacy: Back to School (Level A) Special Education
Team Made For Me Literacy (collaboration with Gabrielle Dixon from Teaching Special Thinkers) is proud to announce our first-ever Level A Growing Bundle, geared toward Pre-K, Early Childhood, and early learners in the special education classroom. This download includes our September unit focusing on Back to School! (At the request from teachers, we have decided to release this unit early in May so that there is plenty of time to prep it over the summer!)What is included in a month of Made For Me
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PreK - K
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Also included in: Made For Me Literacy 10-Month Bundle (Level A) Special Education
August and September Early Finisher Activities Task Card Boxes for Kindergarten
Looking for ways to engage your fast finishers? Practice letter and number recognition along with other important back-to-school skills with these early finisher task cards! Just print and laminate and use for years to come for centers, morning work, and early finisher activities. These August and September task cards cover the following skills:Letter recognition (A-L)Upper and lowercase letter matchingSight word recognitionCapital letter formation practiceLetter sequencingColor recognitionNumbe
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PreK - K
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Spanish Speaking Countries BUNDLE Project Maps Flip Book Quizzes + DIGITAL
This money-saving bundle has everything you need to teach the Spanish-speaking countries, their locations, and capitals! Includes maps, quizzes, project, activities, and more! Save over 30% on this bundle of the following items:Spanish-Speaking Countries Flip BookNo cut, no waste, 6 page / 3 pieces of paper printable flip bookDigital flip book in Google Slides for paperless or distance learningWestern Europe map to label SpainWest Africa map to label Equatorial GuineaCentral America / North Am
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6th - 12th
Letter Tile Activity Pack - Back to School - Letter Matching Activity
Grab those letter tiles and match & play this back to school season! This collection of letter matching activities put those letter tiles to good use with three different fun activities. Your little learners will love practicing their letters with the match-up mat, task cards, and beginning sound pictures. The perfect addition to your literacy instruction for back to school. ⭐ What’s Included: Match-up Mat: Uppercase and LowercaseTask Cards: Uppercase and Lowercase, A-Z, Mixed Capitals, Mi
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PreK - K
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Lewis and Clark Expedition Map Activity & Task Cards | Print & Digital
This engaging Lewis and Clark map activity is an excellent supplement for your Westward Expansion unit! The printable and digital map lesson provides students with a great visual for learning about the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Printable and digital task cards are also included for students to put events of the expedition in chronological order. **This resource is part of the printable and digital Lewis and Clark Unit Bundle. It includes 5 NO PREP Lewis and Clark resources at a 30% discount p
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Lewis and Clark Expedition Unit Bundle | Printable & Digital Activities
Errorless Learning Task Boxes for the ENTIRE YEAR + ESY (Special Education)
This 12-month download includes 192 seasonally-themed errorless task boxes for the ENTIRE year! Once prepped, these compact, hands-on tasks are the perfect way to introduce independent work stations as well as increasing confidence and independence. You may be wondering... What ARE errorless tasks??Errorless task boxes are essentially just that: task boxes with no wrong answers.But why would I want to give my student an errorless task? Are they still learning?YES!! Errorless task boxes are desig
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PreK
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First Day of School Activities 3rd Grade Back to School Math Review of 2nd Grade
Do you need fun math activities for the first week of school that also help your students get to know each other? These cooperative learning activities are perfect for your third grade math class! These beginning of the year math review activities are engaging, low prep, and easy to implement, too. Each 3rd grade math review activity has different sets of problems that review what students learned in math last year in 2nd grade. Choose from Find a Friend activities - also known as find someone w
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3rd
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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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3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: WORLD CONTINENTS STEM Activities and Challenges Travel Passport
PRESCHOOL NUMBER WRITING PRACTICE MATS CORRECT FORMATION TRACING WORKSHEETS TUBS
PRESCHOOL NUMBER WRITING PRACTICE ACTIVITIES (WRITE AND WIPE MATS 0-10)This hands-on fun pack, containing 11 write and wipe mats, is an ideal resource for kids who are starting to write their numbers. What a fun way to teach correct number formation and reinforce number value! Each mat includes a number formation picture guide, ten frame visual, and dotted numbers for kids to trace. Apart from this, each row of tracing numbers is intentionally smaller than the previous one. This is to cater
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PreK - K
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20 Sets of Food Partner Share Pair Up Sets for Think Pair Share
If you need a fun way to have your students randomly pair up into partner groups during partner share, morning meeting, or other games and activities, use these adorable food face partner pair up cards! This set includes 40 printable partner pair up cards (20 sets) that you can easily print, cut and go, or choose to laminate!Theme: Food Pairs***If you are interested in more themed partner pair up cards just like these, check out the growing bundle here!***Choose the sets you would like to use d
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K - 3rd
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- 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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