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2nd grade other (social studies) thematic unit plans
Long Ago & Now Grandparent Day Interview Activity, Family Tree, Student Timeline
Introduce your students to their family history with this fantastic Long Ago & Now Grandparent Interview Activity, Family Tree, and Student Timeline. This lesson series uses compare and contrast strategies to help students understand how their lives are similar to or different from their grandparents' lives. It makes for a great Grandparents' Day activity! Plus, the strong home-to-school connection will help keep everyone involved and excited about learning. This mini-unit is in my Long Ago
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Then & Now Compare & Contrast Writing Activities Long Ago & Today Venn Diagram
Through this Long Ago and Today Social Studies unit, students learn how their lives relate to people and events long ago. Students compare and contrast life long ago to life today. Text pages include information about school long ago. The engaging activities also foster a strong home and school connection.The Then and Now unit includesVocabulary cards in two formats (BUNDLE ONLY)An in-depth reading passage with fact sorting, comprehension questions, and QR codesMini-book that supports the artic
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Winter Holidays Around the World - Christmas Around the World - Narrated Slides
This Winter Holidays Around the World bundle of Powerpoint Presentations is a great unit for your students to learn all about different winter holiday and Christmas traditions in different countries!Learn all about Christmas and winter holidays in 12 countries with fully narrated, stunning, full-color Powerpoint packed with photographs, facts, and a look into the countries' most special traditions. The best part?! I talk so you don't have to!Each presentation can be played in 2 ways:1. Manual:
Grades:
PreK - 4th
Texas State Symbols PowerPoint, Symbols of Texas, Texas History
⭐️ Visit the Lone Star State with your students and learn all about the state symbols of Texas and how they reflect its unique heritage, diverse culture and natural treasures! This PowerPoint features all real pictures and includes a short quiz at the end. ⭐️ State Symbols of Texas included: What are symbols, state seal, state song, state flag, Texas pledge, state tree, state flower, state plant, state dish, state snack, state bird, state large mammal, state small mammal, state flying mammal, st
Grades:
K - 7th
Also included in: Texas State Symbols BUNDLE! PowerPoint, I Have/Who Has, TX Symbols SWAT
Winter Holidays in Mexico - Christmas Around the World - Slides + Activities
Feliz Navidad! Learn all about Christmas Around the World in Mexico with a fully narrated, stunning, full-color Powerpoint packed with photographs, facts, and a look into Mexico's most special traditions. The best part?! I talk so you don't have to!This presentation can be played in 2 ways:1. Manual: Click through at your own pace, starting and stopping the narration when needed.2. Automatic: Click the first slide to begin, sit back, and enjoy the show! (7 minutes plus teacher-guided multiple ch
My Community Scrapbook
**UPDATED FILE--8/4/15**Learning about community will be an interactive and memorable experience as your students create a keepsake scrapbook full of their own drawings, magazine cut outs, photos, and more!Activities and pages included in this rockin' project:1. Adorable cover page :)2. "On the Map"--students will glue a map of their state or draw their state, and label their city.3. "Home Sweet Home"--students will learn to memorize their home address as they write it on the envelope and add
Grades:
K - 2nd
Map Skills - First Grade Mapping - Social Studies - Google Slides™
Teaching beginning map skills to 1st graders is always a lot of fun! Students love learning about maps, compass roses, cardinal directions, and map keys! This interactive Google Slides™ unit is a perfect activity to introduce and practice beginning mapping.Audio is included on all slides in this unit.Here's what's included in this deck:Audio included for definitions, instructions, sentencesDifferent uses of mapsCardinal directions on a compass roseUsing directions on a mapUsing a map key activit
Grades:
1st - 2nd
Summer Olympics 2024 | Print and Digital
Looking for a way to incorporate the 2024 Olympics into your classroom? This complete no-prep unit contains activities to keep your students engaged while learning about the 2024 Summer Games. This unit is full of foldable activities (great for interactive notebooks and lapbooks) and other hands-on activities. You can easily use the reading passages and activities in your Social Studies and Reading/Language Arts classroom.Note: This contains a link on page 2 of the PDF that allows you to make a
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Also included in: Summer Olympics 2024 BUNDLE | Print and Digital
Rules and Laws Social Studies Unit
RECENTLY REDONE AND UPDATED! This unit features 5 activities about the rules and laws in our community. It could be used anywhere from Kindergarten up to 2nd or even 3rd grade. Included in this set:
-Posters with definitions
-Rules and laws bubble map- Students give several examples of each
-Writing piece- What would your community be like without laws?
-Rules and laws tree map- Cut and sort pictures of laws and rules.
-Rules at home, rules at school, and laws flipbook.
Grades:
K - 3rd
Also included in: Social Studies Curriculum Bundle
Life Skills Unit BUNDLE (Special Education & Autism Resource)
Get one unit for FREE when you buy the bundle!! This is a bundle of 7 different life skills units designed to help your students have a greater understanding of life skills and the vocabulary associated with it. This functional life skills curriculum is everything you need to teach critical life skills. These thematic units are designed to enhance and further your student's life skills and understanding of their community. Target crucial life skills with these reading, vocabulary and work tasks
Grades:
PreK - 12th
Types:
Grocery Store Life Skills Unit for Special Ed - Integrated Reading Comprehension
Make teaching about the grocery store fun with these engaging, hands-on, and visually supported activities! This set includes resources to help you integrate reading, writing, and vocabulary into your life skills lessons. Materials are already leveled and include visual supports to help you easily differentiate and meet the needs of your students without extra work.***HUGE savings by buying the Life Skills Unit BUNDLE***WHO IS IT FOR?Students who need hands-on practiceClassrooms with students on
Grades:
PreK - 12th
CCSS:
Also included in: Life Skills Unit BUNDLE (Special Education & Autism Resource)
Long Ago & Today Sort, Compare & Contrast Artifacts Scaffolded Writing Activity
Long Ago and Now: Compare and Contrast Artifacts & Writing Activities help students understand how to compare and contrast the inventions from long ago and today. This is a series of lessons on compare and contrast, several sorts, and related writing activities.This mini-unit is in my Long Ago & Now Unit. DO NOT purchase this if you have or are purchasing the whole unit.LONG AGO & TODAY COMPARE AND CONTRASTTeacher Notes about Compare and ContrastInteractive Mini-book that compares
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Rights and Responsibilities Social Studies Unit
JUST UPDATED!! This unit features 5 activities about rights and responsibilities in our community and school. It could be used anywhere from Kindergarten up to 2nd or even 3rd grade. Included in this set:
-Posters with definitions and examples
-Rights and responsibilities bubble map- Students give several examples of each.
-Writing activity- Students write rights and responsibilities of their own made up land
-Flipbook- Rights in my community/ Responsibilities in my community
-9 large cards
Grades:
K - 3rd
Also included in: Social Studies Curriculum Bundle
Winter Holidays in France - Christmas Around the World - Slides + Activities
Joyeux Noel! Learn all about Christmas Around the World in France with a fully narrated, stunning, full-color Powerpoint packed with photographs, facts, and a look into France's most special traditions. The best part?! I talk so you don't have to!This presentation can be played in 2 ways:1. Manual: Click through at your own pace, starting and stopping the narration when needed.2. Automatic: Click the first slide to begin, sit back, and enjoy the show! (8 minutes plus teacher-guided multiple cho
Maps and Globes
Anything and everything you need to complete a unit on maps and globes. Includes anchor charts, activities, interactive notebook pieces, foldables, songs, and more!
-Anchor charts
-Compass rose activity
-Me on the map activity
-Maps and Globes song
-Creating a map activity
Grades:
K - 3rd
Also included in: Social Studies Curriculum Bundle
Winter Holidays in Italy - Christmas Around the World - Slides + Activities
Buon Natale! Learn all about Christmas Around the World in Italy with a fully narrated, stunning, full-color Powerpoint packed with photographs, facts, and a look into Italy's most special traditions. The best part?! I talk so you don't have to!This presentation can be played in 2 ways:1. Manual: Click through at your own pace, starting and stopping the narration when needed.2. Automatic: Click the first slide to begin, sit back, and enjoy the show! (10 minutes plus teacher-guided multiple choic
Build a City Community Development Social Studies Project Based Learning
BUILD A CITY! Box Town is an exciting Social Studies Urban Planning and Community Development PBL Unit that can be done as a collaborative activity with your Second, Third, or Fourth Graders. What better way to build ‘classroom community’ than by building a community in your classroom!WHY I CREATED THIS RESOURCE:Elementary students LOVE to explore and build. They are curious about cities, towns, maps, and geography. I have found that creating a 3D city is the perfect opportunity to nurture that
Grades:
2nd - 5th
American Government & Citizenship Unit
This unit is perfect for introducing the concept of government and teaching students that we are each contributing citizens in our communities and country! In this unit you will find:-17 Vocabulary Cards: citizen, cooperate, responsibility, government, laws, consequences, government services, tax, volunteer, petition, council, election, vote, mayor, governor, judge, and president-Vocabulary interactive notebook flaps, with cut and paste definitions.-9 Instructional pages covering:What is a Citiz
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Also included in: 3rd Grade Social Studies BUNDLE: Map skills and Government
Les métiers de la communauté / French Community Helpers
This package includes a 70 page collection of French vocabulary and writing pages for 15 Community Helpers!(UPDATED: February 25th 2019 - added two new Community Jobs)• Included in this package: - 1 Vocabulary page for each of the 15 community jobs (2 versions – colour and BW). [total of 34 pages]The vocabulary pages feature the masculine AND feminine versions of each job, a brief sentence describing the profession and also 9 or 12 vocabulary words that relates to that profession. These pages ar
Grades:
K - 3rd
Sociology: Culture & Family Traditions Social Studies Unit with Holidays
Are you looking for a more engaging way to teach culture and family traditions, winter holidays, and more? Does your district have a social studies curriculum from the late 90s? Or none at all? Do you have to integrate social studies units into your ELA block and never have the time to ensure that this happens in a way that does justice to both subjects? Let ETTC make planning for social studies a breeze with comprehensive, done-for-you units. In Unit 4 in the series, the December Unit - Sociol
Grades:
K - 3rd
Winter Holidays in Germany - Christmas Around the World - Slides + Activities
Frohe Weihnachten! Learn all about Christmas Around the World in Germany with a fully narrated, stunning, full-color Powerpoint packed with photographs, facts, and a look into Germany's most special traditions. The best part?! I talk so you don't have to!This presentation can be played in 2 ways:1. Manual: Click through at your own pace, starting and stopping the narration when needed.2. Automatic: Click the first slide to begin, sit back, and enjoy the show! (5:00 minutes).The presentation incl
Grades:
PreK - 3rd
Long Ago and Today
~*Long Ago and Today -Past and Present - I use it for the following:Comparing and contrasting- using a Venn Diagram.Fluency - using poetryWriting - facts we knowFollowing directions & info pack about the past and presentInteractive notebook story that is 7 pages. Sort - glue and draw Flip book for timeline of past, present and futuretimeline activityMy students really enjoy completing these activities. The book is especially fun for them. I have them complete them during their literacy ce
Grades:
K - 2nd
Wants vs. Needs Economics Sorting Worksheet
Great practice for sorting words (no pictures) into the Wants or Needs category. This can be a great assessment! It can also be used for homework or practice. Great follow-up to my wants vs. needs sorting center. I also have a wants/needs sorting worksheet with pictures! Check them out! :) I have many Economics resources available in my store--natural/human/capital resources, goods/services, producer/consumers, etc.
Grades:
K - 5th
Also included in: Economics Bundle - 1st - 3rd Grades - Worksheets and Center Activities
Communities, Urban, Suburban, Rural, Social Studies Communities
This unit is packed full to help you get through teaching a UNIT OVER COMMUNITIES. It covers all THREE COMMUNITIES: URBAN, SUBURBAN, AND RURAL!Please see preview before purchasing.
Here is what is included in this 31 page set:
● Reading Comprehension Printables Covering All Three Communities: Urban, Rural, and Suburban (Answer Keys Included)
● 8 Vocabulary Cards to fit the words used throughout the unit
● Communities Foldable with Writing Activity
● Community Task Cards (Set of 24 Ta
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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