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1st grade critical thinking social studies games for Gifted and Talented
15 Working Memory Brain Games: Improve executive function in 5 minutes a day!
WORKING MEMORY BEST SELLER--UPDATED FOR 2024! These 15 research-based brain games are designed to improve kids' working memory in five minutes of partner game play daily for just 9 weeks! If you've ever complained that students lack the following skills, an executive function of the brain called working memory might be the issue!-staying focused and on-task-following complex and multi-step directions-copying information and taking notes-keeping their place in a text-retelling stories-explaining
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K - 6th
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Who Am I? - Community Helpers Powerpoint Game #1
Community helpers games are great for teaching students about different community jobs. In this "Who am I" game, students must guess the community worker. There are 10 questions and you just click on each question to go to it. Each question has 3 clues and student have to guess which community helper it describes. Clues include tools they may use, what they do, and where they may work. Great for a whole class review or rainy day activity. Great for individual practice on the iPad! Extra licens
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PreK - 2nd
Also included in: Kindergarten Games Bundle
Make Ten Math Puzzle
The Make Ten math game is a triangle puzzle. Each side of the triangle has a number that can be used to add up to the number ten. The file includes 4 black and white pages of numbered triangles and one blank page of triangles in case you want to write in some of your own combinations. This is great for practicing addition facts, or for critical thinking skills.
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1st - 3rd
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Virtual Field Trip *Growing* Bundle! National Parks, Space & More!
ULTIMATE Virtual Field Trip *Growing* Bundle!12 trips and GROWING! This product will include all my future elementary field trips! Grab it now at the lowest price!! Bundle price will increase when new trips are added.⭐️NEW⭐️ MEMPHIS, TN Dr. MLK Jr. added 1/28/2024⭐️NEW⭐️ THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA added 5/22/2022 - Redownload to access!! Virtual Field Trips are an engaging activity for in person learning or online meetings. No matter the format of instruction, your students will be engaged! Use the
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K - 5th
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Christmas / Holiday Game Answer Battle Trivia Family Powerpoint Mac PC iPad
✅ You can use this for your Virtual Party! Check out this video showing you how: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq2WIMvocYo ✅ This Christmas Answer Battle Trivia Powerpoint game is sure to be a big hit at your Christmas party, classroom, office party, or church.✅ It has 13 rounds like:- "Places parents hide presents," - "Name Santa's Reindeer," - "Birds Listed In The 12 Days Of Christmas," - "Common Christmas Cookie Shapes," - "Christmas Movies," etc. ✅ Each round has up to 10 answers (other
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities
Back to School Icebreaker STEM Bundle! Need back to school icebreakers or games that get students moving, communicating, working in teams, and building relationships? Here are 50+ of our favorite basic activities that are low-cost and low-prep for any classroom or subject!Working as a team, they will learn lessons in communication, innovation, hidden assumptions, and creativity that are central to the engineering process. Use as a warm-up, icebreaker, team building activity, or basic STEM and en
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Geography & Map Skills - Reading a Map & Globe Activities & Worksheets
Make teaching mapping skills fun with this map skills mini unit! It covers geography and map navigation basics, including foundational vocabulary; using a compass rose, map key, and simple grid to navigate and read maps and globes; locating continents, oceans, poles, and the equator; and more.Here's what's included:Map Skills Anchor Charts and Vocabulary Cards (map, globe, equator, prime meridian, North Pole, South Pole, latitude, longitude, coordinate, compass rose, key, scale, physical feature
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K - 3rd
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1st Grade Math Science Social Studies Boom Cards™ BUNDLE for Distance Learning
These 1st Grade Math, Science, and Social Studies Boom Cards™ were made to make practicing skills engaging and fun for young students. This bundle includes 34 Boom Card™ decks. These were made with first grade students in mind, but you can adapt it to your lessons to review the skills with second graders or to challenge high level kindergartners. Digital Centers are a great way for you to allow students to review and have enrichment during small group instruction or distance learning. Using th
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1st
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Community Helpers and Occupations Bingo Game
This community helpers bingo game will help your students learn about occupations in their community. For an easy game simply use the teacher calling cards to call out the name of a community helper. For a more challenging game read one of the clues on the calling cards so the students can decipher the occupation.The community helpers included in this game are:-doctor-fire fighter-trash collector-waiter-life guard-nurse-chef-veterinarian-farmer-crossing guard-teacher-mail carrier-forest ranger-
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K - 2nd
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Paul Klee Abstract Art Lesson: Portrait Dice Games Art Project - Nsw Visual Arts
Are you teaching an abstract art lesson on Paul Klee? Are they going to create an abstract portrait? Here's a fun lesson to brighten up your lesson plans! This is the perfect addition to your elementary art curriculum! Engaging abstract portrait art lesson with language (writing) activities. These no-prep abstract portrait art projects are perfect for your art sub tub. Super easy to implement for substitute teachers. Plus, the engagement will help with behavior! Perfect to start your art integra
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K - 12th
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Also included in: Art History Lesson - Famous Artists - Art Activities and Sub Plans
Science and Social Studies Adapted Activities for Special Education BUNDLE
Are you struggling to differentiate science and social studies topics for your students with special needs? Look no further, I've got you covered!Science and Social Studies materials are hard to come by for a self-contained special education setting. This bundle contains many different adapted and differentiated activities to use while teaching your students with special needs about various Science & Social Studies topics!What you will find inside this bundle:Adapted BooksCount It Out Adapte
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K - 5th
Careers, Community Helpers Guessing Game Digital & Printable
This Careers and Community Helpers Guessing Game makes learning about careers and community helpers interactive and FUN! Students pretend to be "Career Detectives" and use their clues to solve 17 riddles. ✅ Both a digital for Google Slides™ and a PowerPoint version of the presentation are included, as well as a printable mini coloring book!✨THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES:✅ A digital for Google Slides™ Career Guessing Game with 17 clever career riddles. Students (or educators) read the riddle, use the cl
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: School Counseling SEL Curriculum 10 Classroom Guidance Lessons #2
100th Day of School No Prep STEM Center Activities for Kindergarten and First
Are you looking for engaging, No Prep 100th Day of School activities for your students? These centers will keep your students busy all day long. Trust me, my kids were so busy they didn't want to clean up.Forget the countless hours of prep, the kids can actually help you prep the day before. All you need are 100 of each item, some bins and a few copies of the papers to go with the activities.Here is What is IncludedSigns for each bin and worksheets when needed100 Cups. 100 Snap cubes100 Patte
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: 100th Day of School Activities and STEM EASY PREP Bundle
Goods & Services Sort Cards for Economics Kindergarten & First Grade
This resource provides 18 sorting cards to help facilitate talks about economics…specifically goods and services! Perfect for a pocket chart lesson or add magnets and use on a magnetic surface.Includes:Goods and Services header cards with simple definition11 goods cards7 services cardsUse for whole group sorting, or Kagan games like quiz, quiz trade….or place in a center as a follow up to your economics lesson.If you need other goods and services resources check my TPT store for posters and an e
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K - 1st
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Also included in: Goods & Services Bundle Economics Kindergarten & First Grade
Needs and Wants Bingo Game - Social Studies Kindergarten & First
Teaching needs & wants? Want a fun and engaging way to practice identifying examples of needs and wants? This bingo game produces good conversations and provides opportunities for fun & learning!INCLUDES:18 bingo boards. Each one has a different configuration. Have more than 18 students? No worries, just print as many as needed. More than one BINGO winner is even better! 36 needs/wants bingo call cards (2 sheets of needs/2 sheets of wants)To play: teacher will call a picture using a call
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K - 1st
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Common Nouns Vocabulary Fun Bundle - Sorting, Classifying Games & Activities
Teach grammar, vocabulary and thinking skills with these fun Sorting and Classifying Common Nouns & Vocabulary Activities with Noun Cards Bundle. These activities are the perfect way to teach standard vocabulary acquisition and use. The resource includes common nouns vocabulary activities and noun cards that can be used in a variety of hands-on learning activities. Your students will love sorting and classifying common nouns while also learning new words and developing their vocabulary. S
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K - 3rd
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Fruit and Vegetables Sorting Using Photos
Fruit and vegetables photos sorting or categorizing can be used as an individual center, or small group activity. Includes 18 large labeled photo fruit cards, 18 vegetable cards, and 2 sorting mats.Click on the PREVIEW link to see all pages and to make sure this is the educational level you are looking for.KidSparkz Teaching ResourcesMore activities with a FRUIT or VEGETABLES theme ...
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PreK - 2nd
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Indoor Recess Kit BUNDLE | Hands-On Activities | Morning Work | Fast Finishers
Kids need time to play, explore, and create! This Indoor Recess Kit Bundle is an easy, fun, and hands-on solution for your students to use during indoor recess days! It also works great for centers, morning work, or early finishers!This bundle comes with 24 themed challenge card activities for each month. Students can use these cards to make, build, and draw their way through those dreary indoor recess days.Each student will get their own kit that includes play dough, building bricks, and a mini
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PreK - 2nd
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Map Skills: Hands On Maps Center Social Studies
Hands-on maps center. Introduce beginning maps skills with this hands-on maps center. Includes: pictorial directions on set-up, "I can" directions, key, compass rose, task cards, interactive map pieces (picture cards of places in a community), differentiated recording sheets, map elements flip book in 3 levels and a "Build Your Own Compass Rose" activities.Use this map learning pack to teach kids beginning map skills! - Flip Books- Interactive "Build a Map" center- "Build Your Own Compass Ro
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PreK - 1st
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Being a Good Citizen at Home, at School, and in the Community
You can use these cards in many ways.
1. Print these cards, cut them out, and use them as a visual introduction to citizenship.
• Show the students these cards and ask them if the children shown are being good citizens or if they are following rules at home, school, or in the community.
• Use these cards as discussion starters. Show a particular card and ask the students what they should do if someone else is not being a good citizen.
2. Print these cards, cut them out, and laminate them.
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PreK - 4th
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Geography Unit for Special Education
Make geography concepts accessible to all learners with this comprehensive unit tailored for special education teachers and parents of autistic students. Designed for easy understanding, the visually-based resources include multiple versions of each activity, ensuring differentiation for various learning styles. The unit features engaging games, printables, flashcards, and an adapted book, making geography an enjoyable social studies theme in your classroom. The extensive content includes flashc
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K - 2nd
Counseling Termination Activities for Moving Away End of the Year Last Session
Are you a counselor looking for activities to have a smooth termination when your clients are ending counseling sessions? Whether you're leaving your position, your clients are graduating because they've met their goals, or moving on because it's the end of the school year, this termination activity set has everything you need to make your last sessions successful and fun!Bundle Includes: ✨The Moving On Digital and Print Counseling Termination Board Game 48 Question Prompt Cards for Discussion t
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K - 5th
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Fun Spring Escape Room | 1st Grade Reading | Digital Google Forms | Teamwork
Oh no!!! Someone took our backpack. It has all our food and camping gear. Please help us find who took it.This is an escape room like activity in which students complete language arts tasks and use problem solving skills. Students are very EXCITED and ENGAGED when working through this activity. Students will have to solve problems and follow the directions in a scavenger like hunt working on language arts concepts along the way. The teacher may need to help guide students on the correct path. Th
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1st - 2nd
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Indoor Recess Games and Morning Bin Games
This pack of indoor recess games includes thirteen independent games and partner games that have been specially designed for easy, prep-free fun and critical thinking!When can these games be played?I designed these games with indoor recess in mind, but the games can actually be used in so many different situations and times throughout the day. They are perfect for fast-finisher activities, morning tubs that are contact-free and require social distancing, at home for rainy days or downtime, and a
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K - 3rd
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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.
Frequently asked questions about teaching social studies
What types of social studies lessons are available on TPT?
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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Educators can save time preparing history lessons with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply start a search for social studies resources on the TPT marketplace, and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find materials that've been proven to work in classrooms like yours. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of social studies lessons and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.
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