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Social studies Common Core L.4.4b resources
Pioneer Life | Westward Expansion | California Gold Rush | Oregon Trail
Looking for resources to have Pioneer Days in your classroom? Look no further than this complete unit on pioneers, including the California Gold Rush and the Oregon Trail. This unit includes activities to stretch out Pioneer Days to a full week or pick and choose what you have time for in the classroom. INCLUDES BOTH A PRINT AND MADE FOR GOOGLE SLIDES DIGITAL VERSION.*************************************************************************************************************INCLUDES THE FOLLO
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2nd - 4th
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Greek and Latin Roots for 4th 5th 6th Grade Morphology Activities Games Wall
Easily introduce students to morphology and Greek and Latin roots with this root of the day resource. I like to print the posters on colorful card card stock and put 5 in a plastic sheet taped to the wall. I introduce a new root each day when we come in from recess.Each day, a student flips takes the 1st card and moves it to the back. The class uses a graphic organizer to record their work. They write it, define it, think of examples, illustrate it, and use it. This no-prep activity takes only
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4th - 7th
Morning Work Bundle (4th, 5th, 6th Grade)
Morning Work Bundle (4th, 5th, 6th Grade) - 532 Worksheets & Printables. A morning work bundle for upper elementary. Use the many art illustrations as a springboard into writing prompts.• Worksheets travel nicely between grade levels. • Meets 65-82% of Common Core Writing Literacy Standards for grades 3-7. Click links for full previews. You get the following:1. Editing - 12 Printable Prompts• Labor Day• Haunted House• Winter Solstice• Sled Racing• White House Easter Egg Roll• Valentine's Day
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4th - 7th
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6th Grade Social Studies Ancient Civilizations Activities Greece China Egypt +
6th Grade Ancient Civilizations Activities - Travel back in time to Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, Ancient China, and Mesopotamia with these fun travel brochure templates! This bundle also includes an "Important Book" template for each civilization, four Greek Myths Reader's Theater Scripts ( in the bonus file), and my Greek / Latin Root of the Day Activity!The Important Book This is a great activity to help students practice scanning for the most pertinent information.Directions: Have students
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Reading Comprehension Google Forms Greek and Latin Roots for 4th 5th 6th Grade +
Google Forms Greek and Latin Root Words Quiz ⭐ These SELF GRADING Google Classroom Forms are perfect for busy teachers! This resource can be used as a quiz or as digital task cards.This resource is one google form quiz of 15 roots. It includes aud, opt, port, vid, scribe, phon, mis/mit, auto, bio, chron, bene, geo, ject, loc, and man. I teach my class many more, but this quiz is a quick assessment to gauge whether or not they are retaining what they have been studying.✦✦ NOTE: This product is
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4th - 7th
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Montessori Cosmic Guide: Elementary Montessori & Homeschool Learning Materials
Montessori Cosmic Guide: Elementary Montessori & Homeschool Learning Materials - Montessori-inspired Lessons & Materials in All Subject Areas (165 pages + Key): The COMPLETE Montessori Elementary Guide contains enough content to cover an entire school year!Item specifics: Recommended Ages: 8 to 12 years old (but you know the child best!)Number of Pages: 385 including Answer Key Subjects: For all Elementary subject areas ('Cosmic Education') Genre: Elementary, Montessori, Homeschooling, D
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3rd - 6th
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Free Interactive Vocabulary Flip Book Activity Common Core Aligned
Free Download! Common Core Aligned Interactive Vocabulary Flip Book for ANY Subject & Content Area
• Students will use both context and root/affix clues to determine the meaning of words;
• Students will use reference materials to clarify the meaning of the words;
• Students will compose sentences using the words.
Aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Grades 4 - 10: L.4
This activity IS included in these resources:
Interactive Notebook Reading Nonfiction Bundle for ANY Text
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4th - 10th
Also included in: Interactive Reading Notebook Fiction and Nonfiction Mega Bundle
Texas & USA
Texas & US History Bundle (4th, 5th, 6th, 7th Grade).Over 200 Texas and US history worksheets and images for upper elementary social studies. Preview is typical of Download, or follow links for full previews. You get the following:Texas Overview (17)USA - Map OutlineUSA - 2-letter AbbreviationsPhysical MapState Seal Coloring PageFlag Coloring PageMap - CountiesMap - Bodies of WaterMap - Cities and RoadsMap - Federal LandMap - General MapMap - Major CitiesMap OutlineOverview WorksheetGeograp
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Texas & USA
Thanksgiving: An Untold Perspective, Social Justice for Young Students
Guide students toward a more accurate and balanced perspective of Thanksgiving and provide information about its history and how our understanding has been shaped with this lesson that draws from Indigenous perspectives.Originally designed for upper elementary, but could be a great introductory lesson for secondary students or a secondary self-contained classroomTeaching notes, guide, and sources included in speaker notes.Full of visuals for maximum student accessibility✏️ Lesson Format:Backgrou
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4th - 9th
Platypus PowerPoint with Activity and Study Guide
Get ready to explore the world of the Duck-billed platypus, one of the most bizarre and mysterious mammals in the world from eastern Australia and Tasmania. Platypus facts include that they sport a tail like a beaver, bill and feet like a duck, and lay eggs like a bird! Platypuses give birth to furless babies called puggles. What's Included:One Quick Start GuideOne 23-slide animated PowerPoint (both PPTX and PDF file types)One 20-page fillable student activity and study guideOne 26-page EDITABLE
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3rd - 8th
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4-LS1-1
, MS-LS1-4
, 4-LS1-2
FREE - Grammar | Oregon Trail Worksheet (Gr. 3-7)
FREE - Grammar Bundle - Editing - Language Skills | Oregon Trail Worksheet (Grade 3-7). In this grammar freebees printables: 3 Oregon Trail paragraphs (answers will vary). + + + + + + + + Oregon Trail is part of Editing & Grammar Bundle: 91 Worksheets, which includes the following... Click links for full previews. A) Language Skills: 44 WorksheetsBasic• Sentences• Paragraphs• Nouns• Verbs• Adjectives• Adverbs• PrepositionsIntermediate• Apostrophes• Commas I• Commas II• Quotation Ma
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in: US History Bundle
Lesson Plans For Acts of Courage by Pamela Horner
If your success in life depends upon harboring a secret, then what do you do when you must either finally confront it, or lose the game of survival? Fen has been busy. He took an unexpected trip, hung around some important people – who are also dead – all the while keeping a deep secret.Fenmore Jacks does things on a grand scale. His personality is huge. His wit is enviable, especially among the other fourth graders. And his school career? It is a colossal – failure. He has to hide the fact tha
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4th - 6th
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Ancient Egypt Unit Plan: Great Pyramid of Giza Golden Ratio PowerPoint
NatureGlo's eScience Ancient Egypt Unit Plan: Great Pyramid of Giza Golden Ratio PowerPoint is a mini bundle featuring a unique math in the real world exploration. Few of the world's wonders hold more fascination than the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still mostly intact. The Great Pyramid is shrouded in mysteries. The modern world is still trying to unravel them. There is a continued debate among archaeologists, Egyptologists, and mathematicians regarding
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4th - 10th
Also included in: Math With Art
Texas Social Studies
Texas Social Studies Activities (3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th Grade)Fifteen Texas social studies famous people worksheets, using Wikipedia or Google. Preview same as Download. You get the following 15 worksheets:Audie Murphy - WWII heroBarbara Jordan - lawmakerDavy Crockett - frontiersmanDwight D. Eisenhower - PresidentGeorge H.W. Bush - PresidentGeorge W. Bush - PresidentHoward Hughes - industrialistLyndon B. Johnson - PresidentMary Kay Ash - businesswomanRed Adair - firefighterSam Houston - President of
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Texas
Texas Social Studies
Texas Social Studies Worksheets "Overview" (3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th Grade).Eighteen Texas social studies worksheets and images for upper elementary.Preview same as Download. You get the following 18 items:Overview:USA - map outlineUSA - 2-letter abbreviationsphysical mapstate seal coloring pageflag coloring pagemap - countiesmap - bodies of watermap - cities and roadsmap - federal landmap - general mapmap - major citiesmap outlineoverview worksheetgeography internet research fast facts internet resea
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Texas
Quick Read: John Locke's "White Paper" and Knowledge - Reading Skills Check
Do your students need a reading check up? Use this quick read (270 words) to combine social studies with reading comprehension. This short passage explores John Lock's key Enlightenment idea of knowledge through experience. The assessment includes questions on comprehension and word knowledge.Check out the preview!Resource includes:270 word reading passage5 question mini quiz that tests comprehension skills (main idea, details, text features) and word knowledgeAnswer keyConvenient one page payou
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3rd - 7th
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An Integrated Social Studies ELA Unit | Election Day Activities
An Integrated Social Studies ELA Unit | Election Day Activities makes spelling easy while building election vocabulary! Integrated Social Studies ELA Unit | Election Day Activities lesson boosts vocabulary and improves spelling in all students through etymology! Research shows using spelling and vocabulary word lists centered on etymological roots improves the spelling performance in middle school students. Improve your students' spelling today while they learn about history!WHAT'S INCLUDED:- H
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Back to School Bundle of Essentials| Back to School ELA Activities
Miners Here/There Chant with Pictures
This is a Here/There Chant I created that goes with connects with the Gold Rush. It is a GLAD strategy and is a great way to teach vocabulary.
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4th
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Latin Suffixes -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian Fluency Advanced Phonics
This is one sheet. There are 100 polysyllabic words that use the suffixes -cian, --tion, -sion, and -ssion. Students read word to their partners for one minute. Students count the number of words read correctly. Students repeat the activity to increase the number of words they can read in one minute. This is an excellent resource for students with dyslexia and/or fluency issues. This product is compatable with the associate level of Orton Gillingham training.
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4th - 12th
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4th Grade December Reading Adventure- The Holiday Mix-up Mystery
The Hacker is upset that one of the holidays of an important world religion falls on his birthday this year, and he's threatening to go back in time and erase that holiday completely from history!! In order to stop him and save the holiday, the Learning League will need your students' help. Fortunately, there are clues that will lead them to discover which holiday needs saving when they answer reading problems. This Adventure will keep your classroom explorers engaged and working hard on reading
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4th
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Also included in: December Reading Learning League Adventures- 4th Grade *GROWING BUNDLE*
American Hero Series #8 GOOGLE Task Cards: Sojourner Truth
Use these digital Google Slides for Black History Month, Social Studies, & ELA. Great for distance learning and literacy centers!Please note that this product is for digital use in Google Slides. You can also purchase this product for use in Boom Learning if you’d like. Click here to purchase the Boom Cards version of this product. My Other Black History Month Collection of American Hero Series Products:American Hero Series #1: Martin Luther King Jr.: Boom CardsAmerican Hero Series #5: Micha
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2nd - 7th
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December Reading Learning League Adventures- 4th Grade *GROWING BUNDLE*
The Learning League has mysteries to solve that require the use of your students' reading skills!! These reading questions have been tailored specifically for 4th graders in the month of December, so give your classroom explorers a chance to review their knowledge and simultaneously go on an adventure!You get the added bonus of incorporating cross-curricular elements into your class when you purchase these resources! Half of these mysteries focus on science, and the other half have a social stud
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4th
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American Hero Series #7 GOOGLE Task Cards: Madame C.J. Walker
Use these digital Google Slides for Black History Month, Social Studies, & ELA. Great for distance learning and literacy centers!Included:Vocabulary/ Context CluesTrue/ False QuestionsInformational PassageComprehension QuestionsSuffixes: -Ed & -IngPlease note that this product is for digital use in Google Slides. You can also purchase this product for use in Boom Learning if you’d like. Click here to purchase the Boom Cards version of this product. My Other Black History Month Collection
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2nd - 7th
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American Hero Series #8 BOOM Cards: Sojourner Truth
Use these digital Boom Cards for Black History Month, Social Studies, & ELA. Great for distance learning and literacy centers!**Please note that this product is for digital use on the free learning website, Boom Learning. Click here for directions for using Boom Cards. Directions are also available with the product purchase.This product is also available for use in Google Slides if you prefer. Click here to purchase the product in Google Slides.My Other Black History Month Collection of Amer
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2nd - 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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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.
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