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3rd grade social studies resources for Google Apps and for special education
Build A Tiny House! Project Based Learning for Geometry and Math
If you’ve been watching TV or reading magazines, chances are you've seen a tiny house. These little homes are everywhere...and now, we're asking students to make their own 3D version! Build A Tiny House is a project based learning (PBL) activity that'll put the designing into the hands of the students. Students will dive deep to show they understand the how (and why) math concepts such as area, perimeter, and geometry are used in building a home. This project integrates multiple elements such a
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2nd - 7th
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Also included in: Project Based Learning MEGA Bundle: 14 Full-Scale Hands-On Projects!
Decodable Passages for Orton-Gillingham Lessons BUNDLE
Quality decodable passages to support the Science of Reading are invaluable. When seeking materials to support your Orton-Gillingham lesson plans, The Literacy Nest has the decodable passages to support your students with a systematic, sequential progression. The Let's Read Decodable Bundle includes over 160 decodable passages that your students will love reading with success.Using a structured literacy approach, these decodable passages provide support for oral reading fluency and decoding prac
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K - 8th
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Map Skills Unit - Maps & Globes Activities - Types of Maps
This no-prep map skills unit includes both vocabulary reference posters and activity pages on many different topics. These activities are an engaging way for students to develop their skills and practice reading maps. *UPDATE* You can now share this with your students digitally!This resource was created using Google Slides. You must have a Google email for use. Each section can be assigned in Google Classrooms. It is ideal for distance learning. I also include the print file so you can have a
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2nd - 4th
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Economics Unit Goods & Services Producers & Consumers Supply & Demand Activities
Say goodbye to lesson planning stress with this short introductory unit that makes teaching AND learning economics a breeze! This engaging resource is designed to make teaching economics easy, fun, and incredibly effective! Your students will learn about the basic economic concepts of money, wants and needs, goods and services, producers and consumers, and supply and demand.FIVE days of engaging lesson plans with possible extension activities are included. All text and activities are included,
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Economics BUNDLE Supply and Demand Worksheets Goods and Services Sort
5 Regions of the United States LINKtivity® (Geography, Climate, Landforms, MORE)
Take your students on an exciting virtual road trip through the five regions of the United States with our digital LINKtivity® Interactive Learning guide! Our interactive guide offers a fun and engaging way for students to explore each region's climate, landforms, bodies of water, and popular tourist destinations.Designed for upper elementary classrooms, our easy-to-navigate digital guide requires minimal teacher prep and is entirely student-controlled, allowing for self-paced learning. With a v
Project Based Learning Activity: Island Survival (PBL) Now for Google Classroom
Project Based Learning Activity: Island SurvivalThis project based learning (PBL) activity integrates elements of science, ELA, and social studies into a student-centered adventure that combines imagination, creativity, and problem solving skills as they try and survive mysteriously arriving on an island.There are 16 activities (1 page for almost each one) for students to complete. Each page involves a problem or idea they must solve, recreate, or answer. Pages can vary from writing, map skil
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2nd - 6th
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Mindfulness Activities and SEL Lessons for Self-Regulation
Help your students use mindfulness practices to strengthen self-regulation and focus skills! These mindfulness lessons and activities teach important social emotional skills that include activities like mindful breathing, listening to music, calm coloring, making crafts, and much more. Unlock the calm in your classroom with these engaging lessons!What is Mindfulness?Mindfulness is a self-regulation strategy. It means being self-aware in the moment. When we build skills for mindfulness, we are al
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3rd - 7th
Native American Unit | Indigenous People | No-Prep Lessons | Google Slides
Native American Unit - This Native American Unit provides informational text and comprehension activities for 7 NATIVE AMERICAN REGIONS IN NORTH AMERICA. No textbook is needed to complete the activities and project. Each unit is now sold separately. 1. EASTERN WOODLANDS2. SOUTHEAST3. GREAT PLAINS4. SOUTHWEST5. NORTHWEST COAST6. ARCTIC 7. GREAT BASINDo you teach several regions, but not all 7? See below for different versions.PRINTABLE VERSION: What is included? ✓ COVER PAGE for notes or folder
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3rd - 5th
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Guided Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions with Digital Google Slides
These Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions for Kindergarten through Third Grade (Guided Reading Levels C through P and DRA Levels 3 through 38) are designed to help students learn to read carefully and to find evidence to support their answers to text-based questions. Make differentiation easy and effective! Please scroll through the preview to see a sample passage from each level and to view the incremental increase in text complexity throughout the pack. The first two reading compreh
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K - 3rd
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Double Digit Addition & Subtraction with Regrouping 2 (Includes Google Slides!)
Created for elementary age students, this is 4 pages of 2-digit addition and subtraction problems set up in a grid with boxes for "regrouping"/"carrying"/"borrowing." The grid format helps students keep their columns lined up, and the boxes will aid them in remembering to "carry" or "borrow" tens. SOME problems do not require regrouping in order to keep students on their toes about the process of decided whether to regroup! I've also included a blank template for both addition and subtraction s
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1st - 3rd
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Christmas and Holidays Around the World Upper Elementary Passages, Map Skills
THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD UNIT WITH 21 CELEBRATIONS! ⭐ "Very engaging for my 3rd-5th graders, and perfect for the weeks leading up to Christmas break. There are so many resources here that I didn't even get to use all of them in class, but it was great because I could pick and choose what would be most meaningful for my students. I loved the research pages for students to do their own research on a country, and my students had a lot of fun with that!"⭐ 2023 BONUS: 5 HOLIDA
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3rd - 6th
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National Parks Research Activities End of Year Project Includes Yellowstone
This Visit a National Park research project will have your students so engaged, they won't want the activity to end! In this unit, students have the opportunity to plan a trip to a National Park, create a road map, write a research article, and so much more! What better way to have students use real-life math, reading, and writing skills than with this fun U.S. National Parks Activity? Now includes nonfiction reading passages and other bonus reading activities!Click HERE to SAVE 25% with the PB
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3rd - 6th
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Plan a Road Trip Activities Real World Math Project Travel Brochure Vacation
This real world writing and math Plan a Road Trip project will have your students so engaged, they won't want the activity to end! In this unit, students the have opportunity to plan a trip and persuade others to visit their chosen destination! Now includes a bonus vacation journal and road trip activities!Click HERE to SAVE 25% with the PBL Activities Bundle for the Year!Click the PREVIEW above to see everything included.All of the hard work is done for you. Simply print the NO PREP pages, and
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3rd - 6th
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Social Skills Task Cards with 100 Social Emotional Learning Prompts & Activities
Use these social skills task cards to discuss real social situations. They teach conversation skills, empathy, friendships, dealing with conflicts, and basic interactions. Each set of cards has a specific focus so that you can use the cards with your students to highlight specific skills at a time. Of course, you can always mix the cards to incorporate all skills at once, if appropriate for your students. They can be used for a variety of age/grade groups from elementary to middle school to impr
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Social Skills Lessons, Worksheets & Task Cards Bundle
3 Branches of Government Activity | Interactive Notebook | Google Slides
This BEST SELLING interactive and engaging resource will help your students learn all about our 3 branches of U.S. government! These 3 branches of government activities will not only have your students learning the importance of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches, they’ll also be learning about check and balances in detail.This 3 branches of government resource has over 80+ pages full of fun and engaging activities to help your students become government scholars. I also love the
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2nd - 4th
Also included in: 2nd Grade Social Studies Bundle
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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Executive Functioning Skills Activities, Worksheets, and Lessons for Elementary
Teach executive functioning skills to your elementary students using these lessons, worksheets, and activities! Skills targeted include planning, organization, time management, task initiation, working memory, metacognition, self-control, attention, flexibility, and perseverance. Each lesson is presented with "kid friendly" language to help younger learners grasp critical concepts of executive functioning skills to boost their brain power. With 50+ pages, students will have plenty of practice st
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1st - 4th
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Christmas Holidays Around the World Virtual Field Trip Digital Resource Activity
⛄ Let's learn about Christmas Around the World! In this holiday Virtual Field Trip, students travel around the world to learn how the Christmas holiday is celebrated in 7 different countries. Your students will travel to the United States, Mexico, Germany, Egypt, China, Australia and Iceland. This virtual field trip is an engaging and fun way to explore how Christmas is celebrated in different cultures around the world. This fun and meaningful holiday activity contains embeddable video links, im
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2nd - 5th
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Regions of the United States: 5 Units Print and Digital Bundle Distance Learning
Your students will learn about the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, and West regions of the United States with this bundle of five units.This bundle includes both printable and digital options. If you would like a printable, paper-based unit, check out my Five Regions Unit Bundle, or you can get the digital options only.Each region includes a 6-page informational text packet that can be used as a "textbook chapter" when teaching about the region. While reading the complex text, your stu
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3rd - 6th
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Biography Research Report Project Template, Google Slides, Digital, Any Figure
Students LOVE this digital biography research project! A ready-to-go biography report template that works with any historical figure or hero (research links included). Low prep and engaging! Students research their figure and use the biography template slides to create a unique Google Slides (or PPT) presentation (with an optional written report). Great for individual or group biography research projects!❤️❤️❤️ SAVE BIG with the Digital Research Projects BUNDLE!⭐️ PERFECT FOR >>>2nd - 5
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2nd - 4th
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Social Skills Activities Small Group Counseling Curriculum
This social skills group curriculum was created for upper elementary students. It focuses on positive communication and understanding others. These social skills activities can be used with students on the autism spectrum, students with ADHD, gifted students, or students with no specific difference at all who just struggle with social interactions. This resource also serves as a wonderful tier 2 intervention within MTSS-B. Each session includes an engaging comic book or graphic novel style page
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3rd - 6th
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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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Feelings Posters, Feelings Chart, SEL Worksheets | Identifying Emotions Decor
Detailed feelings posters, charts, and worksheets that help students learn to identify feelings and emotions. This SEL resource guides students to recognize, name, and understand their feelings and the feelings they see in others. Emotions included: Alert, Angry, Annoyed, Bored, Brave, Calm, Confused, Curious, Disappointed, Disgusted, Distracted, Embarrassed, Excited, Focused, Frustrated, Furious, Happy, Jealous, Lonely, Nervous, Proud, Sad, Scared, Shocked, Shy, Sick, Silly, Surprised, Tired.Wh
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1st - 4th
Dream Vacation End of Year Project
Planning a vacation has never been so fun! In this cross-curricular project, students will plan, budget, and journal about their "dream vacation". They will pull skills from math, language arts, and social studies and work with their group members to complete the project.This is a great resource for distance learning and includes an update in which students plan their "dream vacation" for just them (not a small group). In the resource, you will find a 23-page packet to guide students while pla
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3rd - 6th
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Find Social Studies - History resources | TPT
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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