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5th grade social studies games for special education
Executive Functioning Skills Games & Play Activities - Self-Regulation Breaks
Use these Executive Functioning Games and Play Activities to practice executive functioning skills in a fun and interactive way! The activities can be introduced as executive functioning instruction or self-regulation brain breaks. Skills include planning, time management, working memory, self control, flexibility, organization, task initiation, metacognition, attention, and perseverance. Over 30 unique activities for small groups or full classes are included. They include role play, movement, a
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K - 5th
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32 COUNSELING GAMES: 950 Questions to Turn Any Game Into a SEL Counseling Game
Save TONS of money with these low-prep 32 Counseling Games covering relevant social emotional learning topics. Plus, with over 950 color & number coded SEL questions and prompts, you can use any store bought game you already have and easily transform it into a SEL game!Draw a blue card, token, stick, or block? Respond to prompt in the blue category! Land on a green? Answer a green coded question! Roll the dice and get a 3? Respond to a #3 question!❤️ CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW TO SEE MORE! ❤️ W
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3rd - 9th
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Social Problem Solving Board Game for Social Emotional Learning Skills
Practice social skills and social problem solving with a board game! The game includes over 80 scenario cards focused on real life social situations at school, at home, with friends, and during activities. After reading the cards, kids will act the out the situation, discuss consequences, give three options, identify what they would do, and more. This game is great for students with social difficulties and those who are rigid and might get "stuck" in their way of thinking. Use this game to allow
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Social Emotional Learning Games and Activities Bundle
Ancient Egypt Hieroglyphics Escape Room Activity | Engaging Crack the Code Game
In this Ancient Egypt Escape Room activity, students are introduced to ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and are placed in the shoes of investigators as they seek to crack a mysterious code left behind by the ancient Egyptians. Student investigative teams have one class period to solve four clues, each written in hieroglyphics, then complete the final formula to crack the code. Students only have a set number of attempts to open the lock before the ancient lock deteriorates and remains jammed for
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5th - 9th
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End of the Year Break Activities - Digital Resource Mystery Game - Team Building
Are you ready to watch reading comprehension skills skyrocket before the end of the year break?! Great for team building! Students will work together to solve the mystery AND practice a variety of academic skills including; inferencing, critical thinking, problem solving, reading comprehension, and much more! The material is so fun and engaging, students won't even know they are actually learning! This activity can be used anytime of year and is a fantastic way to get students excited about l
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3rd - 6th
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Latitude and Longitude Battleship Game - Map Skills Geography Activities
Help your students practice their latitude and longitude skills in a fun and engaging way using this no-prep latitude and longitude battleship game! The directions are included right on the template, so this is a no prep activity that comes ready to play. I've also provided PowerPoint directions so you can show students how to play as a class. Students will become well-practiced with using a grid and making sure they always give latitude coordinates first. I've used this every year and my studen
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Latitude and Longitude Practice Puzzle Review Activities Bundle
Speech Therapy Categories Game Articulation Activity Older Students Language
Looking for an easy, NO PREP way to target ANY SPEECH SOUND in words, phrases, sentences, or conversation? Or maybe you need an activity to help your articulation students generalize? This game does all of that, plus targets LANGUAGE too! And the activity is fun for a range of ages– upper elementary, middle school AND high school students! Since 4 different lists are included (each with 12 categories), this game can be used across multiple sessions. There are two copies of the list on each page,
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
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The Great Depression: A Saving and Spending Game
Students work together in small groups to make decisions about how to save or spend their money during the Great Depression. They will see what it is like to have a well-paying job and then lose most of their money in the stock market crash of 1929. They will have to find a new job, a place to live (hobo camp or boxcar), and figure out how to provide for their family with very little.Students will have to subtract their bills from their total amount of money using a spending ledger (provided).
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4th - 8th
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Articulation Activity Speech Therapy Picture Searches Worksheets or Digital
This is a SIMPLE and FUN activity to target articulation in speech therapy! The PDF contains SOUND-SPECIFIC picture searches that will CHALLENGE your students. They'll love this unique activity for something NEW and DIFFERENT to work on articulation in speech therapy.This game-like activity MOTIVATES students as they scan the page to find all of each item. You won't even have to ask them to practice the words, since reporting their answers will NATURALLY elicit the target words!With a total of 1
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K - 6th
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Escape Room Bundle for Social Emotional Learning | SEL Activities
This bundle includes 7 escape room activities with interactive challenges related to coping strategies, executive functioning skills, growth mindset, managing emotions, and conflict resolution. Students work together in small groups to solve a variety of puzzles and challenges in order to discover the secret phrase to unlock the door and win the challenge in a specified amount of time. The first version is for small group scavenger hunts around the room while the second version allows you to hav
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4th - 8th
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Histagories Social Studies End of Year Activity for US and World History
In this history review and conversation game, students are engaged with 8 short lists of information where they work with partners (or individually) to try to come up with answers based on the letter for the round. Included is a letter-choosing paper (students flip a coin and see where it lands!) plus 8 different lists geared toward History, Geography, Geology, and Social Studies themes! A condensed worksheet is also included to save space.Enjoy this fun way to spend the first few (or last few
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5th - 8th
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Branches of Government ESCAPE ROOM! Legislative, Executive, Judicial Branch
The Branches of Government Escape Room will take students on a secret mission around the classroom! This escape room has students decode interesting facts about the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Branches of government. This Escape Room has students walking around the classroom breaking codes. The codes include ciphers, Morse code, cryptograms and a final 4 digit code based on the decoders/clues.What’s Included?✏️ 4 Reading Passages✏️ 4 Puzzle Phrases to Decode✏️ 4 Decoders✏️ 4 Differentiat
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4th - 8th
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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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States and Capitals Bingo, I Have Who Has Game (50 States & Capitals Activities)
This resource is intended to help students learn the states, capitals and abbreviations and to help spark student interest United States Social Studies. Download Preview FilePlease view the preview file prior to purchasing. Please ensure that it is appropriate for your grade level prior to purchasing.This social studies resource includes:1. Social Studies State Study Cards2. Social Studies State Study Sheets3. States and Capitals I Have, Who has? Game4. States and Abbreviations I Have, Who
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2nd - 5th
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Social Skills Game: Friendship Bingo
Many kids are so desperate to have friends that they are willing to ignore rude behavior.
Over time, they start to accept controlling and hostile behavior as a normal part of their relationships with other people.
Help your students develop better friendships by teaching them the qualities of a true friend while playing a fun game!
Qualities of a Friend Bingo Game is a great way to build a positive classroom/school climate, prevent bullying, and reduce relational aggression.
This game come
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4th - 12th
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Get To Know You Activity Ice Breaker Speech Therapy Connect with Others Original
Out with traditional ice breakers, and in with a NEW activity to get to know and BUILD RAPPORT with your students... while targeting speech therapy GOALS at the same time! This simple and versatile game for OLDER students comes with 2 VERSIONS– print and digital.The game allows you to target tons of LANGUAGE & PRAGMATIC goals within a FUNCTIONAL activity, including:✅ Asking and answering QUESTIONS using appropriate syntax✅ Engaging in back-and-forth CONVERSATION✅ Asking FOLLOW-UP questions✅
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3rd - 12th
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Plymouth (Plimoth) Colony Unit: The Mayflower, Pilgrims, Wampanoag People
Plymouth (Plimoth) was a fascinating settlement. Pilgrims, originally known as Separatists, were treated poorly in England because they refused to follow the teachings of the Church of England. After years of struggle, they finally set sail on the Mayflower with the goal of creating a farming village in the New World. The Wampanoag People, who had lived in the area for thousands of years, entered into a peace agreement with the Pilgrims. This peace agreement lasted for decades. Do you want to pr
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4th - 5th
Also included in: 5th Grade Social Studies Big Bundle
Types of Governments Straw Activity Simulation
An interactive simulation to introduce the types of governments to middle-schoolers. Students get to compete with each other in groups to see who can build the best straw tower with straws and tape, but there's a slight catch: each group must build the straw tower how their assigned government would build it. This is guaranteed to be a fun activity that students will love while simultaneously learning about different types of governments!This Types of Governments Straw Activity includes:♦ Instru
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5th - 8th
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Social Emotional Learning Games and Activities Bundle
Practice social-emotional skills with games! These activities help for building empathy, perspective-taking, executive functioning skills, social communication, and social problem solving! Each game comes with a huge selection of student cards and activities so you can play the games again and again. How to PlayEach game includes its own unique student directions. The majority of the games include a simple student game board. Students will answer questions as they make their way through the game
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3rd - 7th
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Regular and Irregular Plural Nouns Activity Worksheets for Speech Therapy
Elicit REGULAR and IRREGULAR plural nouns with these picture search worksheets! This speech therapy activity makes it EASY and FUN to work on plural nouns for a range of ages.This game-like activity MOTIVATES students as they scan the page to find all of each pictured item. Reporting their answers will NATURALLY elicit the plural form of each noun (i.e. I found six sheep.).Use this language activity with GROUPS of students! Answers can be recorded in the blanks on the page before comparing them
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K - 5th
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Money Math (Coins) Identification Card Game for life skills special education
This money math card game works on matching coins to same coins (front and back) as well as their written amount ($0.01, $0.05, $0.10, $0.25 plus 1¢, 5¢, 10¢, and 25¢). What a fun way to work on functional life skill math! Note: This game with coins can be combined with the dollar bill game for extended learning!INCLUDED:Money amount cards: front of coinsback of coins (included 8 different quarter backs)money amount with dollar signs ($) and cent signs (¢).Special cards: wild with colorswild wit
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2nd - 12th
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Also included in: Coin Identification Money Math BUNDLE for special education
Oregon Trail: Simulation Game
Super engaging slideshow game to get students thinking about what life on the Oregon Trail was like. You lead the class with 13 scenarios, and students make decisions and keep track of survival points. A great way to introduce the Oregon Trail to students. It includes 42 slides, directions, and a student handout to record survival points. I use this activity with my 8 graders a few details might need to be edited if used with younger grade levels.Takes about 1 hour.
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3rd - 12th
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Also included in: Western Expansion Games Bundle: Oregon Trail, Gold Rush, Lewis and clark
Greek Mythology Escape Room ... Escape from the Underworld
Escape the mundane by having your class work together to solve this Low-Prep, Greek Mythology Escape Room!! This activity includes 4 puzzles about Ancient Greece and Greek Mythology that students must complete in order to ESCAPE FROM THE UNDERWORLD. Your students will solve the puzzles to receive the codes. They will then use those codes to unlock "locked" questions on a Google Form. Everything is included to help you run a successful escape room! My students have loved these resources and hav
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5th - 8th
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Articulation Game Older Student Speech Therapy Activity Print Digital Dots Boxes
This EASY, FUN, and NO PREP articulation game will elicit a lot of trials! The versatile resource contains 54 Dots and Boxes GAMES, plus the option to CREATE YOUR OWN game by adding any targets. With two versions (PRINTABLE and GOOGLE SLIDES), you can use this activity with older students in any speech therapy setting!You'll be able to target each student's SPECIFIC GOAL, as the following sounds/word positions are included:Initial, medial & final for consonants /k, g, f, v, s, z, th, sh, ch,
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4th - 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.
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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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