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4th grade social studies task cards for special education

Preview of Life Skills Task Boxes -  set 1 & 2

Life Skills Task Boxes - set 1 & 2

Life Skills Task Boxes: Set 2Are you tired of boring worksheets! Looking for something new? Here are 16 Primary task boxes that are all related to life skills that are needed, that can be used in small groups, independent centers, one on one instruction, and take-home boxes for homework for that extra needed practice!! These tasks boxes, or task cards, help promote independent learning skills for early learners, gifted students, ELL students, and Special needs or SPED teachers.This resource can
Preview of Social Skills Task Cards with 100 Social Emotional Learning Prompts & Activities

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
Preview of Fast Food Menu Math (Best Chicken!) for Special Education and Early Elem.

Fast Food Menu Math (Best Chicken!) for Special Education and Early Elem.

Created by
NOODLENOOK
Fast Food Menu Math is the perfect addition to your math centers- and the best part is with three levels of math menus, the task cards can be made appropriate for all the students in your multi-leveled math class… there is even a word problem bonus for your early finishers! You will love the ease of this activity and your students will LOVE eating out at their favorite restaurants!Have your Math Centers gotten bland? Have your students lost interest? Are you looking for a differentiated activity
Preview of Community Signs Skill Pack Leveled for Special Education - Life Skills

Community Signs Skill Pack Leveled for Special Education - Life Skills

Do your students need a high level of varied practice in order to learn community signs? This community signs skill pack will help your students progress from identifying a sign to understanding what the community signs mean. Being able to identify and understand community signs is a crucial life skill. These activities help students recognize and understand the meaning of the different signs.This life skills and social studies set is already differentiated for you. There are 3 levels included t
Preview of Sequencing Stories with Pictures and Text Task Cards For Special Education SET 1

Sequencing Stories with Pictures and Text Task Cards For Special Education SET 1

Autism - Sequencing Pictures within Text Task Cards for Special Education WITH DATA. ALSO, be sure to check out SET 2.Sequencing Events with Pictures & Text Task Cards Autism/Special Education SET 2My students and I have fallen in love with this activity! Complete with 40 Extra Large Sequencing Task Cards, reading comprehension becomes a breeze! There seems to be something for everyone in this 40 card set. Subjects covered include adopting a dog, watching planes fly, why dogs are barkin
Preview of Synonyms and Antonyms Speech Therapy Vocabulary Activities BOOMâ„¢ CARDS BUNDLE

Synonyms and Antonyms Speech Therapy Vocabulary Activities BOOMâ„¢ CARDS BUNDLE

Created by
Stacy Crouse
This BUNDLE of BOOM CARDS is an easy and engaging way to target vocabulary IN CONTEXT! It contains a total of 90 cards targeting synonyms and antonyms at 3 different levels!â–¶ Beginner: Grades 1 - 4â–¶ Intermediate: Grades 5 - 8â–¶ Advanced: Grades 9 - 12Each card has a PHOTOGRAPH with a SENTENCE containing an underlined word for the student to identify a synonym or antonym from a field of 4 choices.The first card of each deck is a menu card that gives a brief description of what synonyms and antony
Preview of Functional Life Skills Task Boxes {special education} 53 task boxes

Functional Life Skills Task Boxes {special education} 53 task boxes

Are you looking to teach Life Skills in a fun, hands-on way to your special education students? This set of 53 different task boxes that focus on life skills is a great addition to your collection of task cards in your special education classroom. Now including Candian money versions of the task boxes.**********************WARNING!!!!!*************************These task boxes are pulled directly from my Functional Life Skills Curriculum. If you already own that curriculum or any unit in it, y
Preview of Social Problem-Solving Task Cards for SEL Skills and Activities

Social Problem-Solving Task Cards for SEL Skills and Activities

Build skills for social problem-solving by getting your students talking! Use these 100 task cards to highlight social scenarios and situations that teach social emotional skills at the very same time. Your students can discuss and identify how they would solve each situation. The cards are organized into five different sets that target different situations: With friends, with family, in the classroom, at recess, and at lunch. These cards are great for students with social difficulties and those
Preview of How my behavior affects others activities task cards social skills SEL

How my behavior affects others activities task cards social skills SEL

Use these low prep behavior and social skills printable worksheets and activities to help teach your students how to control their behavior and reactions to everyday social situations. Incorporate into SEL social emotional lessons using hands on learning with task cards activities to teach students the social consequences of their words and actions.Available in both printable and digital format.DescriptionOften, students with Autism and other social skills deficits struggle to understand the dir
Preview of Coping Strategies Task Boxes for Hands-On Social Emotional Learning Activities

Coping Strategies Task Boxes for Hands-On Social Emotional Learning Activities

Use these coping strategies task boxes to practice social emotional learning skills in a hands-on and interactive way! Skills targeted include matching, identifying, and choosing coping skills. A total of 12 task boxes are included, each with 12 cards. These would be an ideal way for educators to target social skills and emotions to students who need strategies for managing their emotions.Coping strategies highlighted in these task boxes include: taking deep breaths, coloring, using positive sel
Preview of Mindful Breathing Exercises - Mindfulness Cards, Activities & Posters for SEL

Mindful Breathing Exercises - Mindfulness Cards, Activities & Posters for SEL

Use these mindful breathing exercises to build skills for mindfulness and self-regulation. Teach students to take a "mindful moment" and "just breathe" to help feel calm, focused, and in control. Activities also promote attention, emotional control, and coping strategies.Mindful breathing can help kids regain focus, inner calm, happiness, and promote a positive classroom climate. They can be used as brain breaks for the whole class, or in calm-down areas for students who need extra support. Thes
Preview of Self-Advocacy Scenarios Task Cards & Worksheets

Self-Advocacy Scenarios Task Cards & Worksheets

Teach and practice self-advocacy skills with kids and teens! These task cards and worksheets include over 90 unique situations to provide practice. They include an introductory mini-lesson on what it means to self-advocate as a "SUPER Self-Advocate." Note that BOTH task cards and worksheets versions are included, allowing you to provide practice however is best for your learners.Digital VersionDigital-friendly worksheets included. Students can access the task cards through Google Drive to record
Preview of Daily visual schedule for autism classroom daily routines pictures and templates

Daily visual schedule for autism classroom daily routines pictures and templates

Are you looking for a daily visual schedule to help visually communicate your daily activities in your classroom for students with autism? Use this simple and customizable visual schedule to help provide predictability and routine for students of all needs. After all, who DOESN'T need a schedule to help remind them about what's coming next? I certainly do, and so do my students.In this document visuals which can be utilized to create an individualized daily schedule for students with autism/audi
Preview of Inferencing Task Cards

Inferencing Task Cards

Inferencing can be a difficult concept to teach, learn, and master. Our students often need additional support to fully understand this skill. This product contains various components to support your students' learning. Included in this product are 32 task cards containing short stories, 32 task cards containing pictures for inferencing, 1 visual support to help teach what inferencing is, and 2 graphic organizers that can be used with each task card. Each card contains questions that target infe
Preview of Perspective Taking Task Cards & Prompts - Social Skills Activities for Empathy

Perspective Taking Task Cards & Prompts - Social Skills Activities for Empathy

Use perspective-taking scenario cards to help students understand perspectives, build empathy, and strengthen social skills. Every card includes a different real-life situation with questions to guide learners to consider the feelings, thoughts, beliefs, moods, and motivations of others. Scenarios include a variety of situations, including at home, at school, and with friends. With 80 unique task cards, you can provide your students with lots of social skills practice!Digital and Print VersionsU
Preview of Figurative Language Speech Therapy Activities BUNDLE Boomâ„¢ Cards Task Cards

Figurative Language Speech Therapy Activities BUNDLE Boomâ„¢ Cards Task Cards

Created by
Stacy Crouse
Sentence context is key for teaching students how to identify the meaning of figurative language. These BOOM CARDSâ„¢ activities help students understand what idioms, metaphors, similes, and hyperboles are, then provide tons of practice for the skill!Since it's not practical to teach all figurative language expressions, we must teach students the strategy of utilizing context clues to determine the meaning of idioms, metaphors, similes, and hyperboles. These digital task cards are a great addition
Preview of Titanic Passenger Research Activity

Titanic Passenger Research Activity

Dig into history and research the passengers aboard the Titanic with this printable and digital reproduction of tickets aboard the Titanic! Use the interactive, Google Slides version to explore and research 36 different Titanic. Each of the 36 different tickets uses the real names of Titanic passengers. **This resource was COMPLETELY updated April 2021**What is included in this Titanic Passenger Tickets Research Activity?This activity comes in three versions (see the 'PREVIEW' for a visual of
Preview of Social filter worksheets activities task cards social skills SEL and behavior

Social filter worksheets activities task cards social skills SEL and behavior

Using a social filter or thinking before you speak can be tough. This low prep pack of fun and engaging social skills, SEL, conversation, pragmatics and behavior printable worksheets, activities and task cards teach students the importance of saying appropriate words to others and keeping inappropriate thoughts to themselves. Use this activity in social emotional learning SEL, social skills and speech lessons to help students develop vital social awareness skills to help their social interaction
Preview of Self-Control Scenario Cards - Self-Regulation & Executive Functioning Skills

Self-Control Scenario Cards - Self-Regulation & Executive Functioning Skills

Teach and practice self-control with over 100 task cards that highlight social situations. The cards focus on self-control through scenarios with managing emotions, thinking before we speak, and managing our behaviors. Strong self-control is a critical social skill that helps kids and young adults make good social choices for now and in the future.Print and Digital VersionsBoth print and digital versions are included with these scenario cards. Students can access the digital task cards through G
Preview of Math Task Boxes - set one - grades 3-5th - special education

Math Task Boxes - set one - grades 3-5th - special education

Math Task Boxes - set 1 (for grades 3 - 5)Are you tired of boring worksheets? Looking for something new? Here are 16 Kindergarten Math task boxes that can be used in small groups, independent centers, one on one instruction, and take-home boxes for homework for that extra needed practice!! These task boxes, or task cards, help promote independent learning skills for early learners, gifted Pre-K, Kindergartners, ELL students, and Special needs or SPED teachers. These task boxes, or task cards
Preview of Visual Necklace: Behavior Management in an Autism Classroom

Visual Necklace: Behavior Management in an Autism Classroom

38 visuals included. I have used this visual necklace to help my students with autism understand what is being requested of them as well as to help minimize the talking from adults in the classroom. These really do work wonders and it makes you realize how much some of your lower functioning students can understand when the directions are given to them in visual form. Directions for use and ideas for implementation included. -be quiet -walk -nice hands (on table) -hands to self (on
Preview of Irregular Past Tense Verbs Print & Digital Task Cards for Speech Therapy

Irregular Past Tense Verbs Print & Digital Task Cards for Speech Therapy

Created by
Ashley Rossi
Irregular past tense verbs are a breeze with these 40 self-checking digital and printable task cards. Understanding and using irregular past tense verbs can be a tricky concept to teach. These task cards are engaging and give you multiple repetitions to practice the most common irregular past tense verbs.How to use the Irregular Past Tense Verb cards:DIGITAL BOOM CARDS: Drag the correct past tense form of the verb among a choice of 3 to complete the sentence. PRINTABLE TASK CARDS: Put a small do
Preview of STEM Activities - Student Passport around the World

STEM Activities - Student Passport around the World

Complete STEM activities based on a famous landmarks AROUND the WORLD! Students travel through Australia, France, Italy, Sweden, Russia, Egypt and America earning passport stamps as they complete their challenges. This is a fantastic resource for team building activities. Click HERE to SAVE over 20% with our Travel the World STEM Bundle.These task cards allow flexibility with the teacher to either grab and go or build further lessons around each challenge. They lend themselves to Geography, Sci
Preview of Flexible Thinking Skills Task Cards | Social Emotional Learning Activity

Flexible Thinking Skills Task Cards | Social Emotional Learning Activity

These 76 task cards include real-life scenarios for students to practice flexible thinking skills. Flexible thinking means being able to perspective-take and understand situations in more than one way. Scenarios include a variety of situations, including at home, at school, and with friends. Each task card encourages students to think of at least two reasons for each situation. This will help even the most rigid thinkers to consider other perspectives.Digital VersionA digital version has been ad
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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.

How do I find social studies lessons on TPT?

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.