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Social studies unit plan interactive whiteboards
European Explorers: Age of Exploration, Voyages, New World Discoveries & MORE!
Looking for an easy-to-use social studies unit on early European explorers for your third, fourth, or fifth grade class? Look no further! Our unit is designed to take your students on an exciting voyage during the Age of Exploration, where they'll learn about and experience the journeys of early European explorers.Our engaging hands-on student activities, including learning centers, a review game, and unit assessment, are available in both printable and digital formats, making prep a breeze. Our
Grades:
3rd - 5th
National Symbols – 13 American Symbols & National Landmark Activities & Lessons
Our American Symbols Unit features THIRTEEN COMPLETE Common Core-aligned lessons with a balanced mix of engaging higher and lower level hands-on activities to teach 1st-3rd grade students about our nation's National Symbols:
• National Symbols Pre and Post Tests
• Nonfiction Informational text-we provide all of the National Symbols CONTENT
• Questions to assess Informational Text Comprehension after each of the 13 lessons
• short Research Project to make the game Find the Fib using True and Fal
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Branches of Government, Voting, and Elections SMARTBoard Unit
Government, Voting, and Elections SmartBoard Unit Your grades 3-6 students will love learning about how our government is structured, the history of voting rights, and elections! This interactive and engaging SmartBoard Unit (which will be updated before the 2024 election to reflect the current candidates for President and Vice President) is designed for teachers who have an actual SMART brand interactive whiteboard.There are links to videos and a variety of activities, such as text reveal, true
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Coral Reef Powerpoint
Ever get tired of introducing things from a text where the pictures are not big enough for everyone to see... This is the perfect way to solve that problem! Use this as a great supplement to your oceans unit and help introduce the coral reef! With the powerpoint background being black, the colors in the pictures really pop!
Grades:
K - 6th
SC Explorers Unit: PowerPoint, lesson plans, graphic organizers, and test
UNIT 4: EARLY EXPLORERS OF SOUTH CAROLINA
The SC Explorers Unit is a comprehensive five-day (approximately 45 minutes per day) instructional unit focused on the early European explorers of South Carolina. This package includes:
* SC Explorers Unit Lesson Plans
~Written in Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI) format. Each day includes a Learning Objective, Activating Prior Knowledge (APK) activity, Mini Lesson, Guided Practice activity, Independent Practice activity, and Active Closure act
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Grades:
3rd
Regions of Pennsylvania Unit
Teach your students the five regions of Pennsylvania with this five day unit. This unit includes editable, zero prep Google slides that can be used on your interactive whiteboard or online for students working virtually. Slides are formatted for easy printing. Review vocabulary while having fun with daily interactive review activities.Day 5 can be used as an assessment. Answer Keys provided. Coordinating pages to be used in an interactive notebook are included.
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Native American's of Pennsylvania Unit
Teach your students about the indigenous people of Pennsylvania in this six day unit.Explore the villages, daily life, and homes of both the Algonquian and Iroquois people of Pennsylvania. This unit includes editable, zero prep Google slides that can be used on your interactive whiteboard or online for students working virtually.Slides are formatted for easy printing.Review vocabulary while having fun with daily interactive review activities.Day 6 can be used as an assessment.Answer Keys provid
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Holocaust, Anti-Semitism, Jewish EDU Extension Unit Revised Gr 6 Soc. Stud. 2023
The Ministry of Education has made revisions to the Ontario Social Studies Curriculum to combat rising antisemitism across Ontario schools, including the introduction of mandatory Holocaust learning for the first time in elementary schools.The Holocaust can be a very heavy topic for students. But don’t worry, Dr. SillyPants has you covered. The information in this google Slides Extension pack is “child-friendly.” This Google Slides Unit presents the history of the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism
Grades:
6th
Martin Luther King Jr. Primary Unit "I Have a Dream"
This MLK Unit is a zipped file that includes a 30 slide Power Point lesson, a PDF worksheet packet that is 10 pages, and a PDF file that includes a fun craft template and directions as well as ideas for books, videos, and neat activities. The PPT is a mini biography of his life and work. This covers his birth, marriage, life, and major accomplishments, and it does so in a way kids can understand using custom animations, amazing photography, and great clipart the kids will love. The Power Poin
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
4th Grade Unit 1 Prehistory New S.S Standards Louisiana Bayou Bridges
This is the brand new Social Studies Unit 1 for Louisiana's Bayou Bridges Program. This is the full UNIT 1 and will be updated yearly possibly by sections and you will be notified. You must download the folder on the Louisiana Believes website to get all of the documents that we are supposed to use. Credit goes to Louisiana Believes for Images and worksheets.
Grades:
4th
Also included in: 4th Grade New SS Standards Full Unit 1 PDF and Google Slides
ELA Grade 3 Module 1 Units 1, 2, AND 3 BUNDLE! UPDATED 2014!
SAVE BY BUYING THE BUNDLE RATHER THAN INDIVIDUALLY PURCHASING ALL OF ITS CONTENTS! Grade 3 ELA Module 1 Units 1, 2, AND 3! Aligned with the New York State Common Core Learning Standards. These 266 SmartBoard slides will engage students of all learning styles. These lessons will save you hours of designing, scanning, copying, pasting, and typing. These SmartBoard Notebook files were created by veteran 3rd grade teachers with Master's Degrees in the area of Literacy. Enjoy and let us know how well
Grades:
3rd
Pilgrim Unit for the Google Classroom
Pilgrim Unit- Complete UnitHave fun learning about the Pilgrims through this interactive unit!! This unit has everything you need to teach your students about the Pilgrims and their voyage to the New World. This unit is very engaging and interactive for your students!This unit was created with the Google Classroom and technology in mind. This unit contains 75 pages of interactive slides that can be used for Google Classroom OR on a promethean board for whole class instruction and discussion.Thi
Grades:
1st - 4th
4th Grade New SS Standards Full Unit 1 PDF and Google Slides
This is a combination of both Unit 1's PDF and Google slides. Bonus you will get a link to the slide that will have everything on it.
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4th
American Government Unit
This 98 page patriotic unit includes:
*Vocabulary posters
*Famous American Posters
*53 pages of colorful lessons with pictures (project onto activeboard)
*day-by-day teacher plans
*student workbook with many activities for all lessons and are easy to check for mastery
*government responsibilities sorting center
*task cards for a review center
**All print is very large and easy to read**
**If you purchase and need/want any additional materials to go with this unit, I will be glad to make it f
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Indian in the Cupboard -Novel Study Journal Response Questions- Lynne Reid Banks
Reading Comprehension - Journal Response Questions for the book Indian in the Cupboard written by Lynne Reid Banks. Book Summary:When Omri's big brother has no birthday present for him, he gives Omri an old wooden medicine cabinet he's found. The cabinet doesn't seem like much of a present to nine-year-old Omri, until he deposits inside it another present he receives for his birthday: a miniature plastic Indian. His mother comes up with a key for the cabinet, and the real magic begins. When Omri
Grades:
5th - 9th
Community - Road Signs!
GREAT activity for social studies/community unit, safety, reasoning, reading, verbal expression, & vocabulary development! Signs presented are ones that the students can commonly see in their environment.4 Slides. Students move the phrases to the box beside the associated sign. Each slide has one answer that is not a match.
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Grades:
2nd - 6th, Staff
Grade 5 ELA Common Core Module 2A: Unit 2: Lessons 1 - 15
This interactive 108 slide powerpoint guides teachers and students through all of the learning targets, activities and concepts within the Grade 5 Common Core Module 2A. Within this powerpoint, there are charts, maps, hyperlinks, and graphic organizers. The only thing left for you to do is to copy student worksheets, prep for activities and make your anchor charts. Make your lessons go smoothly with this smart board friendly power point.
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Grades:
5th
Westward Expansion's Greatest Hits: A SmartBoard Intro for Grades 3-6
During the years of 1804-1869, the United States expanded westward and people migrated like no other time in American history. The country grew in size, and as the east became more crowded, the west beckoned.
This 45 page SmartBoard presentation in designed for instructional purposes, but can also serve to help students learn to take notes, as it highlights the main points and impact of five major events during the time of Westward Expansion.
This presentation includes
* A timeline with ma
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Early Cold War Complete Unit
This Cold War unit emphasizes interpreting primary sources and political cartoons. Designed for 50-minute class periods, this unit bundle includes a smart board presentation, a review game, daily worksheets and document analysis, an optional DBQ activity, study guide, test, and answer key. The unit covers the early Cold War from immediately after WWII through the Cuban Missile Crisis, with lessons on the Korean War, McCarthyism, and the Kennedy Years.
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Grade 4 Political & Physical Regions of Canada DIGITAL Activities
Grade 4 Political and Physical Regions of Canada based on the 2013 Social Studies Curriculum. This is meant to supplement your own unit plan, as it is now an inquiry-based curriculum. This product had opportunities for your students to lead the inquiry process!IN-CLASS Political & Physical Regions of Canada ActivitiesCheck out the now available FRENCH version! Régions politique et physique du Canada (digital option not available at this time) DIGITAL Activities Included: Introductory Activit
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Grades:
4th
Also included in: Grade 4 Social Studies (Regions of Canada AND Early Societies)
Civil War Unit ISN & SMART Notebook lessons (plus Reconstruction Basics)
THIS IS A WHOLE CIVIL WAR UNIT, AND INCLUDES BOTH A FULL EXAMPLE OF AN INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK AND THE CLASS BY CLASS SMART NOTEBOOK FILE USED TO TEACH THE UNIT.
This is the whole 30 page ISN I recently used with my 7th graders. It is a thinned out version of what a Civil War Unit could be as I was a long term sub and did not have adequate time for the unit. the kids loved it, and it was extremely effective in keeping kids organized and prepared for class! We had a great deal of fun creating thes
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Grades:
7th - 11th
2nd Grade Geography Unit Flipchart
Interactive geography unit Flipchart introduces geography and it's key parts! Great for all ages, but made to cover all 2nd grade standards. Excellent interactive piece to excite students about learning geography!
*15 slides!
*Topics included: Geography, compass rose, maps, continents, countries, states, cities and more!
If you like this product, try:
Weather Unit Plan & Flipchart
Matter Unit Plan & Flipchart
Writing Unit Plans & Flipcharts
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Grades:
1st - 4th
Ancient Greece Unit
This is a GREAT deal! It is an entire unit on Ancient Greece.
Included in this download is a 90 page Smart Notebook presentation. This presentation can be used throughout the entire lesson, it discusses the location and geography of Ancient Greece; who the people were and what they did (role of women and men); Education; Government; Clothing; Food; Theatre; Architecture; Olympics; Gods Inventions and MORE!
The presentation has many links to relevant websites that have videos, activities,
Grades:
4th - 8th
Civics & Citizenship Unit Yr 6/7
This fantastic resource covers areas including: what is a constitution? Why do we have a constitution? and What are referendums?
The activities in this unit have a strong literacy connections and involve independent, small group and whole class tasks.
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6th - 7th
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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.
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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.
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