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5th grade social studies unit plans for Easel
Economics Unit for 3rd & 4th Grade - Scarcity, Opportunity Cost, & Budgets
Do you want your students to master all the economics terms and standards in 3rd and 4th grade? Well this hands-on PBL unit to teach economics covers many different concepts through a real life project. After learning vocabulary your students will go through a project that will teach them all about economics. This is not an explicit teaching product, but a project based learning product.This Unit Covers1. Scarcity2. Opportunity Costs3. Producers and Consumers4. Budgets5. Market PlacesWhy will th
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3rd - 5th
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Ontario 2023 Gr 5 Social Studies Interactions of Indigenous Peoples & Europeans
UPDATED! Save time with this unit that's ready to go and covers all of the curriculum expectations! *If you purchased this resource previously, you will find the updated version available for free download under your "my purchases" tab. All Social Studies units will be updated by December 31, 2023.This resource is a complete unit plan for the Heritage and Identity: First Nations and Europeans in New France and Early Canada in Ontario Strand of the Social Studies 2023 Revised Ontario Curriculum.
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5th
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Also included in: Ontario Grade 5 Social Studies BUNDLE Strand A & B complete units 2023
American Civil War Reading Passages Worksheets Unit Causes Battles Maps Timeline
Make history come to life in your classroom with our Civil War Activities Complete Unit! Immerse your students into the American Civil War with this comprehensive collection of interactive activities, leveled reading passages, comprehension questions, and vocabulary posters. Step back in time as you teach your students about the events and people that were part of this crucial moment in history.Go Digital--A Digital Version of This Unit is Now Available:A DIGITAL version of this unit for Google
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3rd - 5th
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Primary and Secondary Sources Activities - Social Studies Unit 3rd 4th 5th Grade
This extensive Primary and Secondary Sources unit is great for teaching, reinforcing, practicing, and assessing student understanding of this important social studies concept. Your students will learn how to analyze primary and secondary source material through guided lessons, worksheets, sorts, and activities, with a fun project at the end!This best-selling unit is:Comprehensive - can be a standalone resource or a supplement to your existing curriculumEasy-to-Use - includes lesson plans as well
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3rd - 5th
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Community Workers Unit for Special Education
Elevate your community workers lessons with this comprehensive unit, specially designed for special education teachers and parents of autistic students. Packed with engaging games, printables, flashcards, and an adapted book, this resource covers a range of learning styles. The set includes 12 flashcards with definitions, a 12-page adapted book, 9 matching worksheets, 8 writing worksheets, 7 creative writing worksheets, 12 coloring/following direction worksheets, an 'I Have, Who Has?' game, and
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PreK - 5th
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Economy Unit for Special Education
Explore the basics of the economy with this comprehensive unit tailored for special education teachers and parents of autistic students. Packed with engaging games, printables, flashcards, and an adapted book, this functional social studies theme facilitates academic learning about life skills. Designed for differentiation across diverse learning styles, the unit includes flashcards with definitions, an adapted book ('Why is Money Important?'), matching worksheets, information sheets, writing ex
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PreK - 5th
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Community Signs Mega Pack for Special Education
Enhance your students' understanding of common community signs with this comprehensive unit designed for special education and parents of autistic students. Packed with engaging games, printables, flashcards, and an adapted book (What Should I Do?), the resource covers a range of activities to reinforce sign recognition skills. The toolkit includes flashcards with definitions, a multiple-choice adapted book, a card game for identifying signs based on clues, file folder activities for matching si
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PreK - 5th
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The Orange Shirt Story - A Residential School Unit for Orange Shirt Day
This Indigenous (Aboriginal, First Peoples, First Nations) orange shirt day and residential school unit is a meaningful printable package that gently teaches residential school history to primary and intermediate students through art projects and printable activities.This resource is also used as a fundraiser for Indian Residential School Survivors Society and Orange Shirt Society. Using the anchor texts The Orange Shirt Story, Phyllis's Orange Shirt, Orange Shirt Day, or Stolen Words as jumping
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2nd - 5th
Native Americans of Indiana Close Reading Passages - Distance Learning Packets
NO PREP, PRINT AND GO Close Reading passages that focus on Native Americans of Indiana - now you can teach Social Studies during Reading!In this bundle, there are 4 passages that have questions to go with each passage. Each passage is two pages. Questions are modeled after reading ISTEP questions and other released Common Core questions. These are great for homework, Guided Reading, whole group instruction, small pull out/push in groups, or sub plans. This bundle truly gets many birds with one s
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4th - 5th
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Complete Unit for Art Spiegelman's Graphic Novel Maus Vol. 1
The whole unit is available here as a free preview, it's blurred in the preview however it won't be with the actual product.This is a 33 page unit for Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus Volume 1: My Father Bleeds Blood. It includes 57 comprehension questions that cover the whole novel (focusing on higher order thinking and visual literacy) with an answer guide, Vocabulary terms for every chapter, 7 Activities to go with the reading, a timeline handout to help students while reading, and a char
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5th - 12th
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L’histoire du chandail orange - A Residential School Unit for Orange Shirt Day
This Indigenous (Aboriginal, First Peoples, First Nations) orange shirt day mini unit is a meaningful printable package that gently teaches residential school history to primary and intermediate students through art projects and printable activities.This resource is also used as a fundraiser for Indian Residential School Survivors Society and Orange Shirt Society.Using the The Orange Shirt Story, or Phyllis's Orange Shirt, written by Phyllis Webstad, (unit does not include a digital version of t
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1st - 7th
The Breadwinner Book vs Movie Media Literacy Unit with activities and rubric
The Breadwinner is a must read for every student! This resource compares the book and the movie, integrating language, media, and visual arts. Printable and Digital.This resource includes:Student workbook:-book vs movie character comparison-book vs movie setting comparison-book vs movie plot comparison-bok vs movie book cover to movie poster comparison-lesson plan suggestionsCreate your own movie poster assignment:- outline of assignment- success criteria- movie poster planner- rough draft page-
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: Book vs Movie BUNDLE ELA Media Literacy
Economics Mini Unit: Goods, Services, Supply, Demand, Budget, Producer, Consumer
Economics: A Mini Unit (also great for sub plans)Start this mini-unit off with 7 full-page vocabulary posters: Goods, Services, Consumer, Producer, Supply, Demand & BudgetAllow students to practice writing their definitions in their journals with easy to cut-and-paste vocab flaps. Then, they can brainstorm and write examples for each! Spend some time practicing differentiating between spending, saving, earning & donating with 3 practice sheets.Students can plan a monthly budget with *cha
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2nd - 5th
5th/6th/7th Grade Unit Plan for 90 Miles to Havana by Enrique Flores-Galbis
A beautifully written historical fiction story of Julian, a young boy from Cuba who is evacuated from Cuba as part of Operation Pedro Pan in 1961. Gripping, moving, and full of bravery, betrayal and growth. 90 Miles to Havana provides an inside look into the pain and challenges for these families.Winner of the 2011 Pura Belpré Honor Book for Narrative and a 2011 Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year. Unit plan includes:- Unit plan sequencing and pacing guide- 18 pages of Comprehension Que
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4th - 7th
2023 Ontario Gr 5 Social Studies Role of Government & Responsible Citizenship
Revised 2023! Save time with this unit that's ready to go and covers all of the curriculum expectations!This resource is an inquiry-based unit plan for the People and Environments: Government and Citizenship Strand of the Social Studies 2023 Revised Ontario Curriculum. Unit plans and lessons, table of contents with corresponding curriculum expectations, activities, assessments, inquiry, and rubric are included. Corresponding student textbook pages to the Many Gifts Social Studies resource are al
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5th
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Also included in: Ontario Grade 5 Social Studies BUNDLE Strand A & B complete units 2023
Jacob's Rescue Literature Unit
This unit is for the book Jacob's Rescue: A Holocaust Story. This unit is a great resource to add to your History unit on the Holocaust or just used in a literature circle.Included in this unit:* List of Resources Holocaust Museum informationArticlesVideos* Vocabulary lists by chapter and definitions* Character Traits and Map*Chapter Comprehension pages w/answer key* Summary Poster Activity*Problem-Solution Mini-Poster and worksheet
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5th - 10th
Stone Age Unit Plan: Digging Up Clues About the Paleolithic and Neolithic Eras
In this unit on the Stone Age, students will make observations about artifacts, take notes, identify cause and effect in the Neolithic Revolution, establish a timeline, and compare life in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Eras. These engaging activities were designed to meet student needs in a self-contained classroom setting while maintaining high interest.Unit includes:A unit plan of 9 lesson ideas, including reading and writing connections and links to web resourcesA QR code research activity (g
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K - 6th
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CANADIAN GOVERNMENT Vocabulary Activities PRINT and EASEL
Information in this resource has been updated as of 11 Sep 2022, due to the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, and the Conservative Party choosing a new leader.Government in Canada - Vocabulary Activities includes 5 vocabulary pages for students to complete along with two activity pages for each of the 5 vocabulary lists.This resource has five sections relating to vocabulary: --- one about our system of government (democracy and the Parliamentary system);--- two sections on the federal government; a
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: CANADIAN GOVERNMENT Mega BUNDLE of 7 Resources PRINT and EASEL
And Then What Happened Paul Revere Novel Study
Enjoy this novel study of the classic book "And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?" by Jean Fritz. This 34 page unit comes with 3 quizzes, 3 worksheets, an essay, and fun illustration project. A graphic organizer, essay directions, and illustration directions are included. Each quiz has 5 questions. Finally, there are rubrics for both the essay and illustrations, along with an answer key for each page. Happy customers have said: * "This was an awesome resource and perfect for an advanced read
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3rd - 5th
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Leif Erikson Mini Unit Study / Activity Pack Vikings Social Studies 3rd-5th
Leif Erikson (or Erickson or Ericson) Day is October 9th! This no-prep, print and go mini unit study/activity pack is perfect for 3rd through 5th graders. Informational text, reading assessments, word search, bookmarks, and more! The reading and reading assessment are available to use interactively with Google Classroom for distance learning.This is for personal/classroom use only! Please do not share these files with others, but direct them to my TpT store. Thanks so much! :)Exclusive Freebies
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: USA Holidays Activity Pack Bundle K-5 Save 30%!
Elementary Unit: Ellis Island - Grades 4 and 5
This product contains:- a skit that follows a family through Ellis Island and teaches students about immigration in 1900.so they can understand how it felt to be at Ellis Island. The play is 13 pages, but 13 fairly short pages.- comprehension questions about the play- classroom discussion question- a page for a journal entry for students to write as if they are a character from the play.- The New Colossus: Statue of Liberty Poem comprehension sheets- Family Discussion page so students can learn
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4th - 6th
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2023 Ontario Social Studies Gr 5 FRENCH Etudes Sociales Strand B PDF & GS
Revised 2023! Perfect for French Immersion classrooms! This resource is an inquiry-based unit plan in FRENCH for the People and Environments: Government and Citizenship Strand of the Social Studies Revised 2023 Ontario Curriculum. Unit plans and lesson suggestions, activities, assessments, inquiry, table of contents with corresponding curriculum expectations, and rubric are included. *If you purchased this resource previously, please download the revised unit from the "my purchases" tab. This re
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5th
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Also included in: 2023 Ontario Etudes Sociales Gr 5 Social Studies BUNDLE PDF & GS
OREGON TRAIL 4th Grade End of Unit: Jigsaw activity, Bingo, Assessment
OREGON TRAIL
4th grade Social Studies
End of Unit Activities:
*Jigsaw Review Activity
*Bingo
*Assessment with Key
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Included in this package you’ll receive:
*jigsaw review (SIOP) activity with masters, sample pictures, and directions
*Oregon Trail bingo game
-board
-list of words
-list of clues
-game cards
*End of unit assessment
*Assessment key
I did a comprehensive social studies unit on the Oregon Trail for 4th grade which the students LOVED! I thought that these end of unit ac
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3rd - 5th
Art - Elementary/Middle School Navajo Yarn Weavings
This ready-to-use unit is designed for use with 3-6 grade art students. The unit consists of a cover page, complete with student samples and content standards. The cover page is followed by three pages of the student handout. The student handout includes an introductory page with a website video link that describes how the Navajo make their rugs, from raising and dying their own wool, construction of a loom and, creating a rug. The introductory page also includes a fill-in-the-blank vocabulary s
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3rd - 6th
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Importance of learning social studies
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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
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