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1st grade social studies study guides for GATE $10 and up
GT Enrichment BUNDLE! - All my enrichment resources aligned with TPSP
Grab this bundle that includes all of the enrichment resources I've created to align with and compliment primary and intermediate Texas Performance Standards Projects tasks. This bundle is great for pull-out enrichment teachers, or for use in the regular classroom to meet the needs of your gifted learners.Check out each individual product page for more details and an in-depth preview of each resource.Learn more about TPSP at https://www.texaspsp.org/_________Looking for other GT Enrichment activ
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1st - 5th
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Memorizing Mnemonics for the United States Geography [Flashcards, Maps, Quizzes]
Making learning the United States and capitals easy and fun!A mnemonic is a memory aid! I created pictures and phrases that help students easily memorize the United States by name, place, and/or shape!I have had this product in the works for 4 years, ever since I started using mnemonics tricks in my classroom with geography! My students, Kindergarten through 6th grade, use these flashcards and maps successfully to memorize states (and even countries throughout the whole world)!Each of these reso
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K - 6th
Classical Conversations Cycle 1 Weeks 1-12 History Memory Work 5th Edition
OVER 70 PAGES OF LOW/NO PREP ACTIVITIES designed to help your child MASTER his/her Classical Conversations History Memory Work and MAKE YOUR LIFE EASIER! Simply print and follow the directions. Activities are organized by week and day and can be glued into a simple Composition Book to use as review for the Memory Master Program or as documentation for your homeschool program. Each week even includes an assessment!
ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:
Introduce
Picture It
Fill in the Blank
Spiral Sentence
Roll
Grades:
1st - 6th
Gifted or Goof Off
Part of Nancy Polette's Fact or Fiction Series
Texas Legacy Award Winner 2005
Use one of the collages in the Gallery of Celebrities with your students as a motivator to guess which famous people you’ll be reading about. Get a glimpse of the early life of well-known people in different professions. What do the experiences of these people tell us about persistence, perseverance, resolve, determination, achievement, accomplishment, victory and success? Enjoy the humor of Steele’s caricatures – writ
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K - 12th
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Our Island Story Complete Workbook An Island Story Study Guide Visual Aids
Complete Study Guide for Chapters1-110 of Our Island Story (An Island Story).Worksheets and visual aids for every chapter!Each page includes narration prompts, prompted drawing and copy work from the correlating chapter.The lines for copy work are befitting for Year 1-3 students, but any child can use them.64 Pages of visual aids, 2 photographs per page. Total of 128 Visual aids.177 Page PDF.
Grades:
1st - 5th
Little House Rose Series 4 book study guides. Little House on Rocky Ridge & more
All four study guides from the first 4 books in the Little House Rose series by Roger Lea MacBride. Read how the Wilders started their farm in Missouri and join in by doing over 100 activities in each study guide. That's over 400 activity ideas to bring the Rose books to life! Cook the food they ate, play the games they played, do art projects and crafts, act out scenes and more. Incorporates art, music, history, fine motor skills, PE, character development, and a little bit of math. There are a
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1st - 7th
First 4 Betsy-Tacy Book Study Guides Bundle. Fun and sweet!
Awesome study guides for the first 4 Betsy-Tacy books! Each one is 13-26 pages long featuring comprehension questions, vocabulary words, personal reflection questions, and lots of hands-on activities. Encompasses art, music, theater, reading comprehension, P.E., cooking, history and more!The Betsy-Tacy books are arguably the sweetest books for little girls. They climb trees, take picnics, sell sand, collect rocks, dress up, and have cute little adventures.Inspire your children to be creative lik
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K - 6th
Adventures in Italy Week 4: Carnival in Venice + Masks + Tiramisu (BYMC)
Continue your #readpaintcook journey with our fourth Adventures in Italy with the Build Your Masterpiece Class. Learn about the Carnival of Venice, create your own Venetian inspired Masks, and bake a delicious Kid-Friendly Tiramisu with homemade ladyfingers, and celebrate our journey learning about Venice with a party plus so much more with our 26-page bite-sized adventure for ages 3 to 13 and beyond.What’s included:2 Lesson Plans: Carnival in Venice and Baking Tiramisu3 coloring pages3 letter p
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PreK - 8th
United States Research Unit | Lower & Upper Grades (Digital and Print)
This USA (United States of America) research unit is perfect for students who are learning how to use informational text and studying the United States. It is a great component to your United state reports!This is the Google Slides + Printable bundle! You save by purchasing both versions together!Students will first learn how to use the text features in aninformational text including the table of contents and index. Then, students will be assigned a state. You can choose if you would like your s
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1st - 6th
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What is this Thing?
Part of Nancy Polette's Fact or Fiction Series
Have you ever wandered through a museum, looked at an artifact, and wondered,
“What IS This Thing?”
So did Nancy Polette as she toured the Montgomery County Historical Society in Missouri.
As she wandered through the museum, she imagined a child of the 1800s suddenly appearing in her kitchen, at a mall, or in a classroom. How puzzled that child would be! A microwave, a blender, a cell phone, a computer, an escalator – what strange objects!
Just as a
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K - 12th
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European Portuguese Fundamentals
First Edition of the Posso Falar Português Collection is out. Just like every student is different, so is this condensed guide, full of the fundamental essentials for everyday communication, and learning the language, with modern perspectives. The guides are meant to be printed, read, and rewritten to obtain the grammar, along with becoming familiar with sentence structures, and more.This book is filled with guides, worksheets, and activities that give a student an understanding of the Azores an
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PreK - 5th, Adult Education
Adventures in Italy Week 2: Gondolas + Bridges + Gingersnaps (BYMC)
Continue your #readpaintcook journey with our second Adventures in Italy with the Build Your Masterpiece Class. Take a trip from the comfort of your home to Venice, Italy and learn about the Gondolas and Bridges while creating your own gondolas out of tinfoil, coloring original coloring pages, read books and bake yummy Italian Gingersnap Cookies plus so much more with our 26-page bite-sized adventure for ages 3 to 13 and beyond.What’s included: 3 Lesson PlansBook Lists3 coloring pages3 letter pa
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PreK - 8th
Adventures in Italy Week 1: Pizza + Map + Flag (BYMC)
Begin your #readpaintcook adventure with our first Adventures in Italy with the Build Your Masterpiece Class. Color the map of Europe, find Italy, learn all about the Flag, history, pizza and so much more with our 26-page bite-sized adventure for ages 3 to 13 and beyond.What’s included: 3 Lesson Plans and additional learning resources with QR Codes4 coloring pages, Map of Europe, Italy’s Map, Flag Printable, Pizza Coloring Page3 letter pages, I is for Italy, F is for Flag, P is for Pizza Italian
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PreK - 8th
Adventures in France Week 6: A View of Paris + Chocolate Pot de Creme
Our #readpaintcook journey & Adventures in France Series continues with our sixth week all about the View of Paris, including landmarks such as The Arch de Triomphe, Notre-Dame Cathedral, Gothic Gargoyles plus Art from Around Paris from a variety of Artists!There are hands on art projects like our art field trip to "Paint Your Town Art Project", and a yummy recipe of French Chocolate Pot de Creme. I have also included details on Napoleon Bonaparte, who had the Arch de Triomphe commissioned.
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PreK - 6th
Adventures in Italy Week 3: Glass Blowing + Lace + Canestrelli Cookies (BYMC)
Continue your #readpaintcook journey with our third Adventures in Italy with the Build Your Masterpiece Class. Learn about the two Islands off the coast of Venice; Murano and Burano with the Glassblowers and Lace Makers, create art inspired by glass and lace and bake a yummy Italian Canestrelli Cookie Recipe, in the shape of flowers, or stars, plus so much more with our 27-page bite-sized adventure for ages 3 to 13 and beyond.What’s included:3 Lesson Plans; Glassblowers of Murano, Lace Makers of
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PreK - 8th
Geography Task Cards for Elementary Montessori
Guide cards, task cards, work cards: These cards break down the Keys of the Universe album contents into independent working moments for the children. They are compatible with any AMI resources. These cards are intended for children who have received the initial presentation from the adult. Each card leaves plenty of space on the front and back for the adult or the child to add additional notes as needed, including resources, diagrams, etc. Fully adaptable to each student's needs! Printing instr
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1st - 8th
Blunder or Brainstorm
Part of Nancy Polette's Fact or Fiction Series
Fact & Fiction of Famous Inventors and Inventions
4th in the series, Nancy presents not only fact and fiction statements, but also offers an original limerick for each of the inventors. From Archimedes to the Wright Brothers, Alexander Graham Bell to Alfred Nobel. Students learn about the first friction match, the first computer program, the first car, Velcro®, Coca-Cola,® Smith Brothers’® Cough Drops, Colt’s revolver and more. Great for just re
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K - 12th
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Virginia Social Studies Practice Guides: K-2 School License
Practice guides provide a home school connection so that parents are able to support their students with what they are learning in the classroom.This listing is for an entire school to use the practice guides for multiple classrooms.These practice guides are aligned to the 2015 Adopted Virginia Standards of Learning for Social Studies. Each practice guide contains the SOL, notes, and practice questions that will help students master the standard. Answer Keys are provided for teachers if they cho
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K - 2nd
Damsel or Daredevil
Did Molly Pitcher hide in a well when bullets flew during the Battle of Monmouth? Could Sacagawea, the interpreter for Lewis and Clark, speak English? What did Jacqueline Cochran, Bessie Coleman, and Amelia Earhart have in common? What do Sarah Emma Edmonds and Frank Thompson have in common? Did critics of Susan B Anthony drag her through the streets because she supported women's rights? Who was a world famous photographer who captured on film the bombing of Moscow by the Germans, recorded the s
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K - 12th
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FLUENCY FOLDER Kindergarten to Grade 3 for Australian Students!
This Fluency Folder has over 65+ pages to master many basic skills needed to be learned from Kindergarten through to Grade 3 for Australian students.Some pages are interactive and the rest can be used for quick reference, knowledge testing, rote learning or as a homework help companion.So many areas are covered all in the one binder. Very cost effective and user friendly. An excellent resource for creating fluency in many basic skills. Once a child masters the basics, then they have a great foun
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PreK - 3rd, Staff
Mailing Me Family Geography Project
Mailing Me is a fun and engaging way to bring geography to life! Students will mail off a mini paper doll version of themselves to family and/or friends in other states/countries- The further away the better! Friends and family will take pictures of the Mini's adventures and send back information in the Travel Journal (provided) and include postcards, books or other items that help tell about that city. My students have received beads from New Orleans, wheat from Kansas, salt water taffy from
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1st - 3rd
Create-a-Center Series: Primary Topics
Included in this bundle are 4 resources to help students develop critical- and creative-thinking skills.Primary Topics IPrimary Topics IIPrimary Topics IIIPrimary Topics IVABOUT THE CREATE-A-CENTER SERIESEach center provides 90 tasks, ready to cut out and make into a center, as well as a crossword puzzle and an enrichment activity. The multi-disciplinary activities are keyed to Bloom's Taxonomy and include tasks from the 6 major classifications of the cognitive domain: knowledge, comprehension,
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1st - 4th
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18th Century Scottish Clothing Unit Study
Let’s look at the 18th century clothing in Scotland and the history behind it with our first Historical Clothing Unit Study with the Build Your Masterpiece Class!What's Included:History Lessons - Learn about the clothing design of the 18th Century in Scotland, with the Kilt, Earasiad and more!Coloring Pages & Worksheets18th Century Pocket Sewing & Embroidery Pattern & TutorialArt Appreciation of Clothing in the UK in the 1700’sMore details on Sewing your own 1700’s CostumesPair this
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PreK - 12th
Classical Conversation History Week 1-24 Posters
Classical Conversation History Week 1-24 Posters
Grades:
K - 12th
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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.
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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