Social Studies

Digital activities for Social Studies: 5 EASY to use technology tools for Social Studies Projects

Notes: Click the link below to download the chapter notes in PDF format: Geography_Notes Click the map to view it closer: Handouts: Writing Handouts: Venn Diagram-Compose (Venn Diagram Part 2) Chap…

Your students engage in project-based learning using geography, writing, and art! Students love reviewing (or learning) geography and map skills with this hands-on map and history writing project. Critical thinking skills and creativity abound as students develop countries around their own unique theme.

These Social Studies units on American History are so easy to use! They are filled with informational text, activities, crafts, reading comprehension skills, writing, projects, study guides, tests, and more!! NO PREP- No need for text book and tons of creative lessons and ideas! Sold as a Mega Bundle or individually.

Greetings everyone! This month I am adding a special feature to my blog. Each week I will post a free close reading passage of the week. This week's passage comes from Common Core Close Reading Stories. These are high-interest, original literature passages that are used to review close reading skills. Feel free to print the free sample passage below and annotated key. For classroom or school use only please. Click Here to Access Common Core Close Reading Stories The close reading stories and...

This coding unplugged activity is one of many that I am creating to use in my STEM classroom! We do these coding challenges about once a week. They are great for teaching sequencing and logical reasoning to students. There are no right or wrong answers, and many different solutions will work! You could also rotate these challenges through a science center. I store everything in a dollar store gift bag or plastic tub for each individual coding unplugged challenge. This map skills challenge is...

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FREE: Social Studies and Science Note-Taking Student Guides

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Great apps for social studies!

Incorporating social studies reading passages into your instruction can help you address learning goals in both subject areas. Here are my favorites!

Use sentence strips to make timelines of historical events or to summarize the time order of a novel, great way to get a visual overview and make generalizations about a group of related events, upper elementary

5 You Tube Channels that Rock for Social Studies

Elementary teachers share tried and true resources tested in our own classrooms - Classroom Tested Resources