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Social studies unit plans for Microsoft Word
Alberta Social Studies Grade 1
This bundle includes four uniquely inclusive Social Studies units that collectively cover ALL of the Knowledge and Understanding outcomes for First Grade Social Studies. That's an entire year's worth of content! Save 20% when you buy the year-long bundle! Wrong language? The French version of this resource is available here. In light of the COVID-19 crisis, I have created digital versions of these Social Studies units. Digital versions will be in Google Slides™ format (best used in conjunction w
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1st
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The Arrival by Shaun Tan -- 100+ Page Unit and Teacher's Guide GATE
Yes, we can teach reading, writing, speaking and listening, and critical thinking skills using this amazing graphic novel which has no “words!” It’s a journey about who we are, where we have come from, and the humanity we share. It’s about hope and love and understanding. At times powerful, at times breathtakingly beautiful . . . Shaun Tan’s The Arrival should be on every bookshelf in every classroom.This 100+ page teaching guide and unit has been developed over the past three years in my adv
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5th - 12th
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Spanish-American War - America Becomes a World Power Unit BUNDLE
Increase student growth and engagement while saving time, energy and money! This bundle has everything you need and more! It is perfect for textbook free classrooms. Just print and go! Specific product descriptions can be found at the links below:Spanish-American War Reading Passage with Response WorksheetAmerica Becomes a World Power Reading Passage with Response WorksheetSpanish-American War/American Imperialism PowerPoint with Guided Notes OutlineSpanish-American War Stations ActivitySpanish-
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5th - 9th
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Stock Market Unit Plan
Two week unit!
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Have a discussion on how people can make their money grow. Introduce vocab for unit. Hand out Stock Market passage and answer questions about reading.
Day 2- 3
Vocab matching sheet quiz. Discuss dangers of investing in stocks. Hand out Danger in Stocks handout and answer questions.
Discuss stock symbols. Have students search symbols for 4 teacher chosen stocks and check progress of the stocks together across the week. Tell students they have $1000 to invest. They will
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3rd - 10th
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Great Depression - New Deal UNIT BUNDLE (Print and Digital Formats)
Increase student growth and engagement while saving time, energy, and money! This bundle has everything you need and more! The resources are available in PDF and Google Docs formats! It is perfect for textbook free classrooms or for distance learning. Just print and go or use the digital format to reach your learners virtually!
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6th - 10th
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Ethnic Studies Year Course - High School Curriculum - Low Prep - Identity Intro
At last, a comprehensive, and compelling Ethnic Studies curriculum! LOW PREP (print and go) – each unit includes lesson plans, slides with activities, PDF handouts, and formative and summative assessments. There's even an editable Syllabus and Pacing Planner! Use for Ethnic Studies and History, or to provide context for English topics. High School resource that can be used for digital learning. These units help you address complex issues with sensitivity and respect.Teaching Ethnic Studies is bo
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9th - 12th
STEM Kid Engineering for GATE -- FERRIS WHEELS plus Primary Sources
In this GATE engineering journey, students will each construct a very cool Ferris wheel prototype as a final product. Along the way, they will examine primary source images, read primary source history, and integrate math, engineering, and economics in a learning process which incorporates best practices in gifted and talented education for 21st Century Learners.
This is a challenging engineering project—teacher guided. I used it for GATE 4th grade; however, my kids are experienced builders.
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
Geography of North America: United States and Canada Unit Bundle
This bundle covers the physical and human geography of North America, focusing on the United States and Canada. The resource includes many worksheets and activities that can be completed digitally or on paper, a Google Slides presentation, guided notes, an instructor's copy of the guided notes, a review sheet, and a test. This resource will help your students learn about the geography of the United States and Canada, from history and geography to culture, economy, and current issues.★☆★Here is a
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7th - 10th
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Ethnic Studies Year Course - High School Curriculum - Low Prep – w/ LGBTQ+ Unit
At last, a comprehensive, and compelling Ethnic Studies curriculum! LOW PREP (print and go) – each unit includes lesson plans, slides with activities, PDF handouts, and formative and summative assessments. There's even an editable Syllabus and Pacing Planner! Use for Ethnic Studies and History, or to provide context for English topics. High School resource that can be used for digital learning. These units help you address complex issues with sensitivity and respect.Teaching Ethnic Studies is bo
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9th - 12th
Ancient China Unit: PPT, Test, Readings, Activities, Projects: Print & Digital
This is my complete unit on Ancient China from the Yellow River Civilization through the fall of the Han Dynasty. It covers the geography of China, the Yellow River Civilization, the Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin, and Han Dynasties. It also covers Confucianism, Legalism, and Daoism, the Great Wall the Terracotta Army, and the main rulers. There are more materials in this bundle than you will most likely be able to use based on time. So pick what you need! Everything can be edited as they are all Wo
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8th - 12th
Americas Unit Bundle - Aztec, Olmec, Maya, Inca, Inuit, Iroquois, & More!
This unit covers the migration theories and goes over the major pre-Colombian Civilizations. There is a 125 slide PowerPoint with a corresponding note sheet (one filled in and the other with fill-in-the-blanks). There are three projects (a timeline, creative project, or small group presentation project), a test with study guide and jeopardy review game, and a folder of supplemental materials. These materials include quick reads (1 page readings) on the Olmec, Maya Aztec, Aztec poetry, and the
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7th - 12th
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Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand HUGE BUNDLE
The contents of this bundle include:1. Group Inquiry Project: This is an introduction to the novel. Students read the back of the book and research different words on the description. They then share their discoveries with the class in a creative presentation. 2. Reading Guide: Students can use this guide or the text analysis guide as they read through the book.3. Text Analysis Guided Exploration: This activity can be used all throughout the reading of the novel. Students are given chunks of the
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Introduction to World Geography Unit Bundle
This bundle is an excellent resource for a complete Introduction to Geography Unit. It includes both digital and print resources and addresses both physical and human geography. There are multiple activities and worksheets, along with Google Slides Presentations, guided notes, reviews, and tests. ☀This Unit Bundle Includes the following Instructional/Assessment Resources☀• The Basics of Human Geography Presentation, Guided Notes, & Test• The Basics of World Geography: Presentation, Guided No
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7th - 10th
SHARK TANK Economics Pitches Prototypes PROJECT BASED PBL GATE
Welcome to the shark tank project-based learning unit. Let’s begin our entrepreneurial careers today!
Build critical thinking skills, public speaking success, and bring creativity, language arts, and economics into your classroom in a purposeful and authentic way.
Students will work in collaborative teams to solve a complex, ongoing, inquiry-based problem with a physical product for an authentic audience:
• Brainstorm a product, citing a need that will be fulfilled.
• Construct a prototyp
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Creativity Bundle for GATE Gifted and Talented and ALL
Supply and Demand Bundle
This fun and interactive economics bundle has everything you need to teach supply and demand in one place! The activities and instructional materials should be more than enough to get you through the unit in two weeks. There is also an assessment to help you track your students' growth!Included in this bundle are six individual resources plus a free bonus vocabulary sheet!(1) A 39 slide power point presentation help guide your lectures: See it Here!(2) A Simulation of the determinants of deman
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9th - 12th
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US History - Full Curriculum - Google Drive Link (English and Spanish)
Hello everyone! In this purchase, you will download a Word Document file that has a Google Drive link to all of my US history materials. The full curriculum is based on content from the 1600s to modern day, in English and Spanish. This is an ENL modified curriculum, with a single link to a Google Drive.The drive includes all of my files as Google Docs, Google Slides, and the original downloadable Word Docs/PowerPoint files.The drive includes every lesson, every essay, and every test for a US his
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6th - 12th
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Alberta | MEGA Bundle | Grade 1
Are you currently teaching first-grade in Alberta, Canada? This MEGA bundle will have your Socials, Science, and Health units covered for the ENTIRE YEAR. Yes, you read that right. This MEGA bundle was created specifically for teachers new to teaching in Alberta or teaching in general. If you are seeking to revitalize your current unit plans, this is also the bundle for you! Save 25% when you purchase this MEGA bundle. That's 5% more savings than regular bundles! The MEGA bundle includes: Social
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1st
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Black Ships Before Troy Student's Notebook
This is a 40-page student notebook for a teaching unit on Rosemary Sutcliffe's Black Ships Before Troy, a simplified prose version of the Iliad. The notebook contains study questions for the 19 chapters in the book that students are to complete each night for homework. It also contains readings from English literature that touch on themes and characters in the book, as well as instructions for a project due at the end of the book. To accompany BSBT, I created art PowerPoints for each chapter, wh
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Totalitarianism | BUNDLE | Era Between the Wars| Print & Digital | Grades 8-12
This product includes everything you need to teach an entire unit on the Rise of Totalitarianism for your secondary World History class. It covers the time period between the wars. Both Print & Digital (Google Drive) versions are included! Purchase in BUNDLE and you will automatically save 20% off of each product! A pacing guide and detailed lesson plans are included! “Work smarter, not harder!”This purchase includes the following products: Vocabulary WORD WALL TotalitarianismThe Russian Rev
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9th - 12th
Year 7 Civics & Citizenship - Complete Unit
Everything you need for 10 weeks of Civics & Citizenship!Weeks 1-3: Diversity & IdentityWeeks 4-7: Government & DemocracyWeeks 8-10: Citizens & LawsEach product includes:1. PowerPoint presentation (>18 slides)2. Follow-along workbook (>15 pages)3. Daily vocabulary worksheets (9 pages+ 9 answer keys)4. Unit plan with curriculum links, instructions, and suggested assessment tasks.The Civics & Citizenship Curriculum is full of subject specific vocabulary. This unit is buil
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6th - 8th
Road Trip Adventure PROJECT BASED LEARNING for GATE and 3rd - 8th Grades
Come along on a fun project-based adventure as students practice different forms of writing, geography skills, computer and internet technology skills, engineering and design skills, math skills, public speaking, creativity, and art.
Here is your Gold Medal Standard project based learning unit ready to go. Because this project-based unit relies heavily on student creativity and invention, the key knowledge, understanding, and success skills can be scaffolded across many grade levels. This un
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted
Carnival Game Economics PBL Project-Based Learning GATE
Smaller tasks add up to big, big learning with this gold medal standard project-based learning activity! What a sneaky cool way to learn math, economics, and functional design! (Insert evil teacher laugh.) It’s a hands-on approach to Common Core Standards.
In Carnival Game Economics, students design a carnival skill game and gather data as junior market researchers during the test phase. They’ll use this data to help make decisions. After making calculations for probability, students will
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Gifted and Talented SURVIVAL KIT Bundle -- 235 pages, big discount!
Learning Targets with success criteria - 3rd grade Social Studies standards
This resource is based on the SOCIAL STUDIES Georgia Standards of Excellence for third grade. Each learning target has a "Learning Intention" otherwise known as learning target or objective, and then clear achievable success criteria for the learning intention. These learning intentions and success criteria will act as rubrics for EVERY third grade Georgia standard. This particular package includes the SOCIAL STUDIES standards only. These learning targets and success criteria will also help
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3rd
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Entrepreneur Project- DIY: Open for Business
Entrepreneur Project- DIY (Do It Yourself) Open for Business: is multi-step, long term economics project for students of all abilities and varied grade levels to learn how to form a small business and become young entrepreneurs.
Students of all ages are very aware of the hard economic times that many are experiencing in the country, in their neighborhoods and even in their own homes.
This project allows students to see that with creativity, ingenuity, organization, hard work, dedication, m
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Grades:
2nd - 12th
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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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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.
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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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