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Social studies Common Core SL.2.1 resources
National Parks Virtual Field Trip BUNDLE - Fun Friday Brain Break Activity
Take your students on a virtual field trip to 10 national parks! This bundle includes ten virtual field trips, one for each of the featured national parks. ⭐Internet access is required to use this resource.Each virtual field trip includes:A brief PowerPoint/Google Slides presentation (23-25 slides, including title page, section dividers, and numerous brainstorming slides):Basic information about the national parkLinks to 360° photos of 6 points of interest in the parkLink to explore a place in t
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K - 4th
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Totem Poles of Pacific Northwest Virtual Field Trip | Native American Heritage
Engaging activity about the Totem Pole & Native American heritage of the Pacific Northwest! Using this digital resource, your students will "travel" to Alaska and Canada to learn all about these iconic structures, what they represent, how they are carved, oral traditions, and the rich cultural meaning behind them. This google slides digital resource features two digital choice boards with online links to virtual field trips and student-friendly sites, and a fun follow-up photo quiz to check
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2nd - 5th
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Why Do We Celebrate Black History Month
It is important for students to understand why we have a Black History Month. Some students may grow up and become adults who think Black History Month is racist, divisive and unfair.Negro History Week was created by Dr. Carter G. Woodson in 1926 because white people, who had once forced Black people into enslavement, were not teaching about Black people in American history. Slavery was over, but racial terror, lynch mobs and segregation were still in place. White Americans were being racist and
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1st - 5th
St Patricks Day Activity Ireland Virtual Field Trip
This Ireland virtual field trip is the perfect St. Patrick's day activity. Go on an adventure with your class to see the Cliffs of Moher, Irish Dancing, St. Patrick's Day Celerations, and more! This Ireland virtual field trip is easy to prep, is interactive, includes videos, and has companion activities. This virtual field trip would be the perfect addition to a study of Europe or a St. Patrick's Day celebration.Save $$ and get this as part of the Virtual Field Trip Growing Bundle!*Note: This re
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1st - 4th
Also included in: Virtual Field Trip Growing Bundle, Holidays, Countries, Video Lessons
Duck for President Read Aloud - Voting Activities - Reading Comprehension
This "Duck for President" printable or digital interactive read-aloud lesson plan pack includes rigorous text dependent questions, differentiated graphic organizers, response to text writing activities, a craftivity, and detailed lesson plans. These "Duck for President" activities will help you meet several core standards while maintaining your tradition of reading aloud for pleasure. You will guide students to use evidence from the text to deepen their understanding of the story and respond in
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in: November Read Alouds - Fall Activities - Reading Comprehension Bundle
Grade 2 CKLA ALIGNED Knowledge #3 Ancient Greek Civ. Supplemental Slideshows
PLEASE NOTE:**These materials are not designed to replace lessons or materials provided within Amplify/Core Knowledge (CKLA); they are meant to supplement the existing materials provided by Amplify Education Inc. and The Core Knowledge® Foundation.These interactive PowerPoints are aligned to Core Knowledge's (CKLA)/Amplify's 2nd Grade Listening & Learning Strand, Domain 3, Ancient Greek Civilizations. These PowerPoints are very colorful, interactive, and stay true to the curriculum. Over 1,2
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2nd
Economics Activities Unit | Project Based Learning | Financial Literacy
This is an entire UNIT for a Project Based Learning Unit on ECONOMICS and FINANCIAL LITERACY. It takes a teacher and their class, step by step throughout the entire Economics Curriculum. Don’t let planning PBL Units stress you out! This unit is all set for your entire planning. It will save you hours of your time.Some Lessons are DIGITALOVERVIEWEconomics For Kids helps students gain life skills in problem-solving, investigating, financial literacy and engages them in challenges. We start a clas
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2nd - 3rd
Also included in: Project Based Learning Curriculum | 2nd Grade PBL Activities
Human Rights, Fairness, and Acceptance - Fair or Unfair? Civics Sorting Activity
Get kids thinking outside the box and think about justice, acceptance, and diversity by having your students determine what they think is just or unjust. Why use Just or Unjust - A Civics Sorting Activity? Children need to learn to think for themselves about what is right. This activity will get the children thinking and defending their thinking. How it works: Here's an activity based on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his peaceful protests on what is just and unjust. Children will sort stateme
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2nd - 4th
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BUBBLE GUM - Integrated Mini Unit with Reading, Writing, Math, Science, and Art
FAMOUS INVENTIONS - BUBBLE GUMInspired by Meghan McCarthy's narrative nonfiction picture book POP! THE INVENTION OF BUBBLE GUM, this cross-curricular mini-unit is a really fun way to celebrate the famous treat invented by Walter Diemer, a candy company accountant who became an accidental inventor. The unit is designed to take 1-2 days to complete and includes a variety of engaging, hands-on lessons covering multiple subjects. It is perfect for:A Unit on Inventors or Famous InventionsA Genre Stud
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1st - 2nd
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2-PS1-4
, 2-PS1-1
Mental Health Awareness | Four Activities, Worksheets, Video & Editable Lesson
What is mental health? May is Mental Health Awareness month! This is an editable no prep 80+ page powerpoint on mental health/ talking about mental health/ stigma/ how to talk about mental health disorders, conditions & symptoms, including 80 google slides reviewing mental health, a custom video I created with follow-up questions, new vocab review, with 3 differentiated levels of all included activities! Each slide of the lesson uses large font and has a visual.Included are 3 differentiated
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2nd - 7th
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Primary Economics Unit: Wants, Needs, Goods and Services (Lessons & Activities)
It is never too early for students to begin learning about economics. This primary economics unit guides students through topics such as the difference between wants & needs, goods & services, producers & consumers, choice, cost & benefit, and saving & budgeting. This resource has been updated to include both print and digital options to save you time and prep! Find everything you need in one place.Please click the preview button for more details!What's Included::: Wants &
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1st - 3rd
Turkey Day & Thanksgiving Activity | Virtual Field Trip | Pilgrims Mayflower
Looking for an activity about Thanksgiving Day? Students will learn about Thanksgiving Day traditions, travel to Plymouth Plantation, learn about the Wampanoag Native Americans, and see how the first feast was celebrated by the Pilgrims and Native Americans with this digital resource!It's a great supplement for your Thanksgiving Day lessons. This google slides resource features 2 digital choice boards with online links to virtual field trips, activities and student-friendly sites, and a fun foll
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PreK - 2nd
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My Family Heritage Lapbook Project
The perfect way to end your Around the World, All About Me, or Family Units... a lapbook project that ties together social studies and ELA! As each student dives into a search of their multicultural roots, they will practice their reading, writing, and speaking skills while gaining a deeper appreciation of the cultures that make up their family tree. Though most of the project is completed in class, three parts are taken home for family input (a flipbook, a family tree, and a family recipe card)
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1st - 3rd
Also included in: Elementary Social Studies Craft and Project Bundle with Bonus Banner
What is Culture Digital Slides - My Culture Digital Activities
Learn all about CULTURE with this paperless, no-prep lesson for cultural classrooms. Easily use this fun mini-lesson on culture for an independent activity, morning meeting, or a station to learn all about CULTURE. It's a challenge to squeeze culture and diversity lessons into our jam-packed days. These Digital Slides are a quick, interactive, no-prep, paperless activity that will help you have conversations about culture.Here are some ways teachers have used this resource:✔ Explore what is and
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1st - 3rd
Producer or Consumer: An Economics Sorting Game for Primary Students
This will help your students understand one of the beginning concepts of economics: Consumers and Producers.This is a Social Studies sorting game to practice the vocabulary "consumer" and "producer." Children will sort the 16 task cards onto the apples that say "producer" or "consumer". It includes definitions of the two important words, suggestions, 16 task cards, and extra cards so you can make your own.The most important part of this activity is encouraging conversations that help deepen th
World Geography Unit with Geography Worksheets - World Geography Curriculum
Dive into world geography with this highly-engaging world geography unit. This world geography curriculum includes everything you need to help you save time and skyrocket engagement during social studies. This bundle includes 12 lessons and over 200 pages of activities, projects, geography worksheets, games, and crafts to learn about world geography. Simply print or assign, and GO! All lessons are equipped with easy instructions and ready-to-use activities. Here are a few of the MANY geography
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2nd - 4th
Citizenship Unit
How hard is it to find time in the day to teach social studies, let alone prep for it?? This Interdisciplinary Citizenship Unit is designed so you can teach it during your ELA and Math blocks! There are 20 days of lessons plans including:
-Read Alouds
-Writing Activities
-Leveled Guided Reading Passages with Questions (E, H & L) about American Symbols
-Math Activities
-Research Projects
-Craftivities and much more!
Minimal prep is required for this unit plan! Just print and teach! Check ou
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1st - 4th
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Natural Resource to Finished Product | Farm to Table Oranges
Do your students ever wonder how we get orange juice on our table for breakfast? This farm to table resource will give you teaching information and visuals to make the explanation and process easier to grasp. It’s an easy prep resource and a big teacher timer-saver. Here’s what is included:⭐ 16 Picture Cards with Color or Black Ink Options to Trace Commercial and Homemade Juice⭐ 17 Labels Including 3 Specialized Vocabulary Word Cards⭐ Worksheet-Seeds to Commercial Orange Juice⭐ Worksheet-How to
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2nd - 3rd
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Personal Timeline Project
Have your students create a timeline of their lives using these digital Google Slides. Students will have the option to create their timeline digitally or they can be given the option to create a poster timeline. These can be shared via Google Classroom or uploaded to other digital platforms/emailed. I have pre written all letters that can be sent home as well as included blank editable versions for you to write your own letters with your own details. Product Includes:•Family letter (Editable &a
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2nd - 4th
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George Washington Carver Activity Pack
This product was created for students in a Kindergarten classroom and could easily be implemented in 1st grade as well. Through a variety of activities and worksheets students will learn all about George Washington Carver, an African-American scientist best known for discovering many new ways to use peanuts!This pack includes 4 print-and-go worksheet activities:- Timeline (Color Me)- Timeline Cut and Paste- Adjectives/Who Was George Washington Carver?- Book Mark Craft (4 designs)Also included:-
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PreK - 1st
Also included in: Black History Month Activity Pack BUNDLE {K-1}
Natural Resource to Finished Product | Farm to Table Milk
Do your students ever wonder how we get milk from the cow to the carton or the table? This farm to table resource will give you teaching information and visuals to make the explanation and process easier to grasp. It’s an easy prep resource and a big teacher timer saver. Here’s what is included:⭐ 9 Picture Cards with Color or Black Ink Options to Trace Milk from the Cow to the Carton⭐ 6 Picture Cards with Color or Black Ink Options of Products Made from Milk⭐ 21 Labels and 2 Sorting Labels⭐ Work
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1st - 2nd
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Economics Unit | Financial Literacy | Project Based Learning Economics Bundle
This is an entire ECONOMICS BUNDLE for a Project Based Learning Unit on ECONOMICS and FINANCIAL LITERACY. It takes a teacher and their class, step by step throughout the entire Economics Curriculum. Don’t let planning PBL Units stress you out! This unit is all set for your entire planning. It will save you hours of your time.Some Lessons are DIGITALThis is the BUNDLED Version and includes all the same activities as the ORIGINAL Unit. OVERVIEWEconomics For Kids helps students gain life skills in
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2nd - 3rd
Mapping Your Community - Projects & PBL
Driving Question:What is a community? How do the inhabitants of a community work together?Description:In this inquiry based project, students investigate their local neighborhoods in order to come to a shared understanding of "a community." Research skills, map reading, oral and written communication, and creativity will become purposeful as the class builds a model of the local community to present at a public exhibition.What's Included with this Project:NextLesson Projects are extended lessons
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K - 2nd
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Rights or Responsibility of Citizens Game Kindergarten and First Grade
This Interactive Google Slides presentation will help students recognize, and evaluate the difference between a right and a responsibility. It contains definitions and home and school examples of rights and responsibilities.Primary students think in pictures. Using clipart or photos is the perfect way to solidify concepts. Sorting into categories further helps them retain in long term memory.Here's what you'll get:✅ 66 interactive google slides✅ self-correcting✅ Rights and Responsibility AS
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Rights and Responsibilities 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.
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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.
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