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2nd grade social studies resources for GATE under $5
Albert Einstein Scientist Study / Biography Activity
If your students are learning about famous scientists and inventors, you simply cannot beat Albert Einstein! This is an interactive biography study where students complete a mini-booklet using a word bank and images.What You'll Get8 page create-a-book booklet. Your students will add illustrations (provided) and fill in the blanks based on context to complete the book (a word bank is included). There is a hands-on activity to demonstrate space-time, and links to websites to further explore elect
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Famous Scientists and Inventors Bundle
Inventions Research Project - Collaborative Tessellation Project
Research inventions from A to Z! This resource includes a list of 50+ inventions that students can research and report on in a fun way. Choose from print and go option (with invention graphics already on them) or use the template provided to research inventions not included. A digital version is also included if you use Google Classroom. When projects are complete they can be combined to create a tessellation! This makes a great wall display or bulletin board collaborative art piece.Please note
Grades:
2nd - 8th
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Also included in: Inventors and Inventions Bundle of Research Projects Templates
Marie Curie Scientist Study Biography Activity
Looking for a print and go option for Women's History Month or studying about famous women in STEM history? Try this Marie Curie Create-a-Book! Learn about this scientist and why she is famous in this 8 page Create-a-Book (mini biography book). Your students will cut and paste the provided illustrations and fill in the blanks using the word bank, based on context to complete the book. Ideas for extending this activity are included.What You'll GetOverview Poster: There is a poster in color and bl
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Also included in: Famous Scientists and Inventors Bundle
Henry Ford STEM - Car Building STEM
Henry Ford - Henry Ford is a famous American who changed the way cars were made. This STEM teaches students some basic facts about Henry Ford. It challenges students to design a car that has wheels that can turn. Students must use the available supplies and stick to a budget. This STEM challenge meets several NGSS standards and encourages critical thinking, budgeting, and engineering skills.
Suggested Plan of Implementation:
Prior Week: Send home the parent letter requesting supplies. Gat
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Grades:
1st - 6th
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Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
Morse Code Scavenger Hunt
In this fun activity, students will create a foldable with questions about Morse code. To find the answers, students will hunt around the classroom and translate Morse code messages.
Indluded:
*Two foldable options
*Morse code messages
*Answer Key
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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Abraham Lincoln Log Cabin STEM
Abraham Lincoln - President's Day STEM - In this STEM challenge your students will learn some facts about Abraham Lincoln and will complete the challenge of building a one room log cabin similar to his childhood home. Students must stick to a budget and use the available supplies. This STEM challenge meets several NGSS standards and encourages critical thinking, budgeting, and engineering skills.
Suggested Plan of Implementation:
Prior Week: Send home the parent letter requesting supplies.
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Grades:
K - 6th
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Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
Goods and Services Producers and Consumers Economics Activity Second Grade
Looking for an engaging early elementary economics lesson? Your students will gain a deep understanding of buyers and sellers (producers and consumers) in a community with this fun simulation activity. Your second or third grade social studies students will love creating their own good or service. This resource is suprisingly low-prep for how interactive it is. Simply print, cut, and go! You'll get teacher instructions, classroom procedures, printable student sheets, a student reflection sheet,
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
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Colonial American STEM: Create a Toy or Game
This STEM project explores how children in Colonial America used the "technology" of the time to create toys and games! You provide materials for students to design and build their own game or toy in a 1/2 hour time limit. This STEM's goal is to explore how children used their creativity and materials (or technology) available in their time. All the materials you need for documenting student progress are found inside! Look What's Inside the Colonial American Create a Toy or Game STEM! For the
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Personal Interest Project for Genius Hour
Do you use Personal Interest Projects, Passion Projects or Genius Hour in your classroom?
PIP’s are a great way to extend learners who are gifted or talented, or introduce young learners to research projects. Students are able to choose their own topic to research and present in any format that they choose. This is also a great way to allow students to work at their own pace and to be accountable for their learning.
Included in this file;
o Instructions on how to implement a PIP in your
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Digital Research Project Seven Natural Wonders of the World
Looking for a distance learning or 100% digital project? This is an independent digital research project in Google Slides that is perfect for distance learning.Students will independently research and present information about the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. You can easily assign one, some, or all of the natural wonders for this project. Simply delete any unwanted slides prior to sharing or assigning the project. You can also make this project appropriate for multiple grade levels by s
Grades:
2nd - 8th
Orbit Enrichment Project
This is the perfect project for gifted or early finishers. You could alsogive to the whole class as a ”May Do” assignment when they’re finishedwith their “Must Do” tasks. This project can be used in various ways.Choice is powerful with students, especially when providing enrichment foradvanced students. Your students will surprise you with their end result.Students pick a topic that “orbits” around something they’ve learnedabout or are learning about in their grade level. For example: division,v
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Also included in: Enrichment Activity Growing Bundle
The Great Wall of China Create Problem Solving STEM Activity
Do you love STEM and want to integrate STEM into your China Unit? This creative problems solving activity integrates STEM principles into creating a Great Wall which will hold a 3 pound bag of rice! Through trial and error students will think outside of the box to come up with a unique Great Wall.
Included in this unit:
Teacher Guide and Lesson plan with additional extensions
Student guide
Planning sheet
Rubric
Student team evaluation form
Grades:
2nd - 8th
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Timeline Activity
Included are the following:
-All About Me Timeline with writing & photo space
-All About Me Timeline with photo space
-Seasons Timeline with writing & photo space
-Seasons Timeline with photo space
Great activity aligned to Common Core standards and NYC Scope and Sequence for S.S. Please leave feedback.
Grades:
K - 5th
Locomotive by Brian Floca - Primary GATE Unit with Caldecott STEAM!
Another amazing Caldecott book and another load of opportunities across the curriculum for our primary GATE kids: hands-on and participatory activities, critical thinking, creativity, art and graphic design, and always best practices in gifted education. I’ve used this unit with 2nd graders, and it will definitely stretch to 3rd grade GATE.
You get 35+ pages of instructions, critical thinking questions and activities, and ready-to-print student activity sheets—assuredly more than you’ll ever
Grades:
2nd - 4th
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Inventor Trading Card Project | Digital Google Slides | No Prep & Editable
This inventor research project gets students excited about famous inventors and inventions! Through this fun and creative project based learning (PBL) activity, student will learn about inventors as they relate to science, social studies, and history, all while incorporating important research skills, reading, and informational writing skills.This project includes:A list of suggested InventorsA planning graphic organizer for students to take notes on while researching their inventor,A digital te
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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Also included in: GT Enrichment BUNDLE! - All my enrichment resources aligned with TPSP
Brain Growers: Ancient Greece & Greek Mythology
Brain Growers is designed to get your students thinking critically and creatively. This download includes 14 engaging activities that can be used many ways in your classroom, such as: early finisher activitiesindependent work during small group rotationshomework projectswhole class assignmentssmall group assignmentssubstitute workenrichment for gifted and talented studentsand more! All of the activities in this download are related to Ancient Greece and Greek Mythology. The activities are: What'
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Brain Growers Mega Bundle- No Prep Enrichment Activities
Creative Wheel Enrichment Activity
:: How to Use ::Creative Wheels can be used in ANY subject! You can have students complete a book character study, biography, book study, Social Studies topic, Science topic… the possibilities are endless!RESOURCE INCLUDES:+ Creative Wheel PDF+ Creative Wheel Google Slide+ Creative Wheel Digital or Printout options+ Editable Rubric + Sample pictures from my class projects and a list of ideas on how to use!
Grades:
PreK - 12th
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Also included in: Enrichment Activity Growing Bundle
Amazing Race Printable Templates
This file is a PowerPoint file with Amazing Race templates to create challenges, detours and roadblocks in any content area. These templates can be used digitally or as printables. Just click inside the editable text boxes to add your content.Template includes: planning pageschallenge folderroute information carddetour cardroadblock cardplayer name tagsPowerPoint slides template
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Grades:
K - 12th, Staff
Student Frame Template with Cut Out Depth & Complexity Icons
Take your students deeper into the content with this student frame template with cut out depth & complexity icons. Great for supporting Common Core and allowing for student choice!
Grades:
1st - 5th
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Create a Culture Student Project | Gifted and Talented
Get your students thinking creatively! This project can be tackled in small teams or individually. Your students will use their imagination and creativity to invent their very own culture. The packet included will walk them through illustrating and writing about the following aspects of their invented culture.
- climate and geography
- language
- education
- architecture
- religion and beliefs
- economy
- clothing
- artifact list
Writing frames and a rubric are included.
This project is perfec
Grades:
PreK - 8th
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Research a Country for Primary Gifted Students
This unit is based on the work of Dr. Sandra Kaplan. Using her areas of Depth and Complexity, a student can learn more about a country than just the name of its capital, and the population. This unit includes 15 pages of activities designed for gifted and talented students in first or second grade. The student will have such activities to complete as to create a cartoon about the ethics of the country, or to draw pictures showing how something has changed over time.
clipart used from www.scra
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Labor Day Emergent Reader
This little reader is the perfect way to explain what Labor Day is to elementary students. The book explains when Labor Day was celebrated, when it became an act by Congress and why is was created.
This would be a good resource to add to your Labor Day social studies or government unit on the holiday.
US History
Labor Day
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Grades:
K - 5th
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UPDATED Modern and Ancient Olympics Enrichment Menu for Enrichment/ Gifted
Differentiate for gifted students, high achievers, fast finishers, and all levels with 8 fun research mini-projects about the Olympics! (including Ancient Greece and the Summer Olympics!) Menu includes choices for several levels of difficulty and all learning styles. Teachers can have students select one or several projects (perhaps assigning a certain criteria) from creating graphs and Venn diagrams, to designing god/goddess trading cards, and inventing their own Olympic sport! Includes 2 pages
Grades:
1st - 8th
Also included in: Multitude of Menus! Enrichment Bundle
Geography North American Map Skills Game Activity Second Grade Third Grade
Memorization doesn't have to be boring or mundane! If you need your students to memorize aspects of a map, this resource is your best friend! Add in a game - bonus points if they create the game! - and you've got an interactive, powerful geography tool for memorizing a simple North American continent map and the essential elements of that map.Direct instruction guidance is included to help you teach your students what they need to move forward in the activities.You can read the provided passage
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Grades:
2nd - 3rd
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Also included in: Geography Lessons and Activities | Critical and Creative Thinking BUNDLE
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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.
Teaching with social studies resources
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.
Discover printable and digital social studies resources
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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There are many different types of history resources sold by Sellers on TPT. Some popular social studies lessons include U.S. history, world history, ancient history, geography, civics, and government.
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